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CTAN package update: newlfm
by Jim Hefferon 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul Thompson Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/newlfm Summary description: Produces letters, faxes and memos License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 8.0 of newlfm is announced. Several improvements have been included in this version. * Letterhead and non-letterhead pages can now have quite different dimensions. * Multiple signatures are now supported. * The manual has been rewritten to attempt to make the program clearer. Several minor fixes have also been included. * A number of dimensions have been fixed to actually work. * Labels now work a little better. Users of newlfm are urged to upgrade to Version 8.0. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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CTAN submission: epmtfe.zip (EPM TeX Front End 4.2)
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploaded the archive file epmtfe.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack the uploaded ZIP file in the CTAN directory: systems/os2/epmtfe (Please, do not unpack the enclosed archives.) This is version 4.2 of the EPM TeX Front End, a module for the OS/2 Enhanced Editor EPM. It turns the EPM into an integrated TeX environment, providing (La)TeXing, previewing and executing of auxiliary programs from the editor menu. Two flavors of the TeX Front End are provided: * classic: for use with any TeX system, including emTeX and VTeX/2 * VTeX: for use with VTeX/2 _only_, making the use of this system particularly convenient Each variant is available with English or German user interface. Changes over the previous version 4.0 are listed in the file NEWS. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the previous version in CTAN:systems/os2/epmtfe Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: xcolor 2.00 (addendum)
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

Uwe Kern asked me to add the list of changes to the xcolor 2.0 accouncement of a few minutes ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2004/07/04 v2.00 * New features: - extended functionality for color expressions: mix colors like a painter; - support for color blending: specify color mix expressions that are being blended with every displayed color; - xglobal command for selective control of globality for color definitions, blends, and masks; - multiple step operations (e.g. color{foo!!+++}) and access to individual members (e.g. color{foo!![7]}) in color series; - providecolor command to define only non-existent colors; - definecolorset and providecolorset commands to facilitate the construction of color sets with common underlying color model; - additional 147 predefined color names according to SVG 1.1 specification; - `xpdfborder' key for setting the width of hyperlink borders in a more driver-independent way if `dvips' is used. * Changes: - `color' package now completely integrated within `xcolor'; - `override', `usenames', `nodvipsnames' options and xdefinecolor command no longer needed; - `dvips' and `dvipsnames' options now independent of each other; - racingcolors's behaviour changed to make it more versatile and reduce log file size in standard cases; - divide's syntax made more flexible (divide by numbers and/or dimensions); - code restructured, some internal commands renamed; - documentation rearranged and enhanced. * Bugfixes: - definecolor{foo}{named}{bar} did not work (error introduced in v1.11); - more robust behaviour of conditionals within `pstricks' key-values. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN upload notification: xcolor 2.00
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Jul '04

05 Jul '04

----- Forwarded message from Uwe Kern ----- Name of contribution: xcolor 2.00 Name and email: Uwe Kern <xcolor(a)ukern.de> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Summary description: Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- `xcolor' provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of colors, tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors by means of color expressions like color{red!50!green!20!blue}. It allows to select a document-wide target color model and offers tools for automatic color schemes, conversion between nine color models, alternating table row colors, color blending and masking, and color separation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload; I installed the new version of this package as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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tug.ctan.org/www/ctan.org out
by Jim Hefferon 02 Jul '04

02 Jul '04

The tug.ctan.org machine is back up, thanks to help from the IT staff here at St Michael's College. We had some strong lightening last night, which fried the power supply, and they kindly replaced it. Sorry about the downtime. Jim Hefferon

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CTAN catalogue search
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

I've got an old copy of Jim Hefferon's excellent catalogue search from www.ctan.org; it's been off the air for a bit, but is now available again at http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTANfind.html Does what you need, I think, though it's undoubtedly less pretty than Jim's current thing (which is on a machine that's currently not working...). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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(no subject)
by Rainer Schöpf 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

After a bad storm, the US main CTAN node alan.smcvt.edu is out of service. In particular, the web interface at www.ctan.org cannot be reached. We apologize for the interruption. We will post an announcement when the machine is operational again. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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tug.ctan.org/www.ctan.org out
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

Jim Hefferon's just reported that the machine has been fried by a storm. He doesn't know how long it will take to get things back on the air again. In the mean time, there's still cam.ctan.org/dante.ctan.org (for ftp) and www.tex.ac.uk and www.dante.de for web access. I fear that www.tex.ac.uk's CTAN search is currently broken, and dante doesn't have one :-( Report problems to ctan(a)dante.de, please. I'll try and get the CTAN search here going again this evening (I had intended to sneak a copy off Jim :-( ) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN has a new package: m-bib
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jul '04

01 Jul '04

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should be spreading to other sites even as you read this. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: m-bib Author's name: Taco Hoekwater Location on CTAN: macros/context/contrib/bib Summary description: ConTeXt bibliography module License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the ConTeXt bibliography module. There is nothing really new in this release, just a (re)packaging for CTAN. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/bib although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors

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New release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free
by Reinhard Zierke 30 Jun '04

30 Jun '04

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- ============================================================ VTeX/Free 8.44/8.46 for OS/2 and Linux ============================================================ A new release of the free TeX System VTeX/Free for OS/2 and Linux (x86) is available from ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex and will soon propagate to the other CTAN nodes. About VTeX/Free ---------------- VTeX/Free is a TeX distribution, which is built around the VTeX program. VTeX is an implementation of the TeX typesetting engine, including the eTeX extensions. VTeX can generate PDF or PostScript output immediately from the TeX source file. The distribution includes Plain TeX, a LaTeX system with many additional packages and fonts, and the Bibtex and Makeindex programs. VTeX is developed by MicroPress Inc. In contrast to traditional TeX systems, no intermediate DVI files need to be generated, no DVI driver programs are required, and there is no need to take care of their sometimes fussy setup. The common PostScript and PDF viewers Ghostscript and Adobe Reader (Acrobat) are to be used for (pre)viewing and printing. Output from VTeX is immediately suitable for public distribution, e.g., over the www, since PDF and PostScript are standardized document formats. Actually, VTeX/Free is a port of MicroPress' commercial TeX system VTeX for the Windows platform, see <http://www.micropress-inc.com>. However, the free distribution does not include the GUI and certain tools of VTeX/Win, and it does not support HTML and SVG generation. VTeX/Free comes in two variants: * VTeX/2 is for the OS/2 operating system * VTeX/Lnx is for Linux (on the x86 platform only) VTeX has a built-in Postcript interpreter and supports * inclusion of PostScript images, * inclusion of PDF images, * inclusion of bitmap images (PNG, JPG, TIFF and others), * inline PostScript programming. Thus, packages such as PStricks, PSfrag and draftcopy can be used with VTeX. and are part of the distribution. The hyperref features are supported in both PDF and PostScript mode. PDF encryption is available without external tools. Beside the standard Computer Modern fonts, VTeX/Free includes lots of other free Type1 fonts and the macro packages to use them: * European Computer Modern (EC/TC fonts) * URW's clones of the 35 PostScript base fonts * Pazo Math fonts * the AMS math fonts (Symbols, Euler, Fraktur and others) * various special math fonts: RSFS, WASY, St-Mary-Road, Doublestroke, esint, esvect * the Ibycus 4 system and its Greek typefaces * the ArabTeX system with Arab and Hebrew typefaces * the CJHebrew package with Hebrew typefaces * TIPA (phonetic) typefaces * BrushScriptX-Italic * various symbol fonts: MarVoSym, Cheq, Context navigation symbols, MF-Logo What is new in the currect release? ----------------------------------- * v8.44 of the VTeX compiler for OS/2, v8.46 on Linux * latest LaTeX * additional fonts: Fourier, CJHebrew, esint * ... and more, see the file <ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex/NEWS> NB: The previous distribution site ftp.uni-erlangen.de is NO LONGER IN USE. Please, do not attempt to download VTeX/Free from this site any longer! ----- End forwarded message ----- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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