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CTAN upload notification: tpslifonts package v0.6
by Reinhard Zierke 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030530.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tpslifonts package v0.6 Name and email: Stephan Lehmke <Stephan.Lehmke(a)udo.edu> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts Summary description: A LaTeX package for configuring presentation fonts License type: GNU Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When I see a presentation which is a little demanding wrt fonts (especially when a lot of math is used), I'm usually disappointed by font readability. Most commercial `presentation tools' are completely out of the question because they don't have a clue about math formatting. But even when some LaTeX package is used, often the readability is not so good. cm math fonts at large design sizes are difficult to read from far away, especially at low resolutions and low contrast color choice. What is more, the LaTeX presentation packages do almost nothing for math readability. To name a few, combining cmr with cm math (seminar default), combining cmss with cm math (foils), or combining helvetica with cm math (prosper) doesn't help readability and sometimes leads to positively ugly results. It has to be said that real alternatives in the form of `presentation-friendly' math fonts freely available in PostScript Type1 format exist only since very recently. Thanks to Harald Harders for providing the hfbright collection and to Walter Schmidt for the cmbright fonts and for changing the license to make this possible. I hope that the ideas realised in the tpslifonts package lead to much better overall readability of some font combinations. The package tpslifonts offers a couple of `harmonising' combinations of text and math fonts from the (distant) relatives of computer modern fonts, with a couple of extras for optimising readability. The package offers the following features: 1) Text fonts from computer modern roman, computer modern sans serif, SliTeX computer modern sans serif, computer modern bright, or concrete roman. 2) Support for OT1 and T1 font encoding. 3) Math fonts from computer modern math, computer modern bright math, or Euler fonts. 4) Support of additional symbol fonts like AMS symbols or doublestroke. 5) All fonts configured for `smooth scaling' (like in the type1cm package). 6) Avoiding fonts not freely available in Type 1 format. 7) Careful design size selection for optimum readability. For some of the options to yield satisfying results, it is neccessary to install additional (free) Type1 fonts on your system. There's no intention to support other font families like the typical ``psnfss'' PostScript fonts, as they usually don't come in different design sizes, making the effort of tuning them for viewing futile. If you wish to use such a font, load it with the usual packages. tpslifonts is part of the TeXPower bundle, residing at http://texpower.sourceforge.net/ but is completely independent and can be used without texpower without problems. The example document slifontsexample.tex can also be compiled without TeXPower installed. A precompiled version of the example document (showing SliTeX computer modern sans serif text together with cmbright math) can be downloaded from http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/slifontsexample.pdf As I'm not really a font expert, I'm of course interested in opinions of the experts concerning the concepts behind tpslifonts and suggestions for improvement. regards Stephan Lehmke ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload; I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/tpslifonts/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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new CTAN package: smalltableof
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to a mirror near you in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: smalltableof Author's name: Boretti Mathieu Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/smalltableof Summary description: Package to create listoffigures, ... as section instance of chapter License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package allow creating list of figures, list of tables, ... that are section instance of chapter (You can make a chapter named List that contents section List of figure, section List of tables, ...) Ce package permet de gerer des tables/listes de figures/tables/... sous la forme de section et non pas de chapitre. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: proba
by Jim Hefferon 01 Jun '03

01 Jun '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by now made its way to your favorite local mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: proba Author's name: Laurent Nguyen-Ngoc Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/misc Summary description: Some shortcuts commands to symbols used in probability texts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package includes some of the most often used commands in probability texts, e.g. probability, expectation, variance, etc. It also includes some short commands for set (blackboard) or filtrations (calligraphic) It requires Latex 2e and the amsfonts package - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upload notification: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d
by Reinhard Zierke 27 May '03

27 May '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The TeXPower bundle, alpha release 0.0.9d. Name and email: Stephan Lehmke Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/texpower Summary description: A bundle of LaTeX packages and classes for making pdf beamer presentations. License type: GNU Project Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Sorry, the summary is not brief. You can delete everything below and including Among other packages below if neccessary.) TeXPower is a bundle of packages intended to provide an `all-inclusive' environment for designing pdf `screen presentations' to be viewed with Adobe Acrobat[tm] reader in full-screen mode, especially for projecting `online' with a video beamer. The features provided include: * `dynamic' features like incremental building of pages, animated diagrams and such. * support for `navigation panels' * support for page backgrounds * advanced color management (`logical markup' for colors supplying `color sets' for different background colors, `dimming' and inverting of colors etc.) and color highlighting. * advanced font configuration. TeXPower is not so much meant as a help for _designing_ slides (a lot more in this direction is planned for the future, but it is not the main purpose of the package); instead, you can keep your favourite slide or presentation class (say, seminar or pdfscreen or ...) and add dynamic effects with usepackage{texpower}. The bundle does contain a documentclass powersem which is derived from seminar by a very limited number of fixes and extensions trying to make it a little more suited for presentations (and more friendly towards pdftex). The bundle is developed by myself (Stephan Lehmke) and Hans Fr. Nordhaug who is also running the SourceForge site. The development is coordinated by a SourceForge Project. The homepage is http://texpower.sourceforge.net/. There you'll find the newest sources in a CVS repository, bug and patch trackers, a user forum and mailing list, and pdf files for all examples. Among other packages for dynamic effects (most notably PPower4 http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/ and prosper http://prosper.sourceforge.net/), TeXPower is distinguished by INDEPENDENCE: There is no postprocessor, and also no dependence on the way in which pdf is produced. VERSATILITY: Everything is implemented entirely in LaTeX, hence you can use whatever LaTeX programming skills you have (and the numerous hooks provided) to design your own presentation effects. There are a lot of examples in the doc directory of this bundle, from very simple things (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/simpledemo.pdf) to rather involved (and not completely serious :) examples of what can be done (http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf, http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/panelexample.pdf, http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/fancystep.pdf). TeXPower contains a small number of simple and customizeable basic commands and a large number of derived commands for special purposes (for instance, dimming all colors on a page and then incrementally `undimming'). FRAGILITY (or maybe one should say BRITTLENESS): This is the backside of versatility I'm afraid. Unfortunately it is extremely easy to introduce errors and irritating spacing glitches (leading to parts of the page jumping and wobbling around during an incremental build). It is very helpful to have at least a basic understanding of the goings-on of LaTeX formatting for doing anything but the most basic things with TeXPower. While mostly the brittleness is inherent in the way texpower is implemented and can't be avoided at sustainable cost, it is our aim to reduce the impact by * `faultproof' customized environments like special list environments with automatical incremental display of items; * a large number of `ready-made' examples for most common uses; * an extensive FAQ list containing the most common blunders. Most of the above is unfinished in this alpha version. PRODUCTIVENESS: TeXPower tries to do a lot of things by itself, making it easier to design presentations. For instance, the stepwise command is similar to Prosper's overlays, but you don't have to count the steps yourself, stepwise will determine the number of steps quite reliably even if steps are nested inside of other steps etc. Furthermore, you _can_ say explicitly at which step something is to appear, but you don't have to; normally steps will just be executed in order. This makes it very easy to design and edit dynamic presentations. ROBUSTNESS: In spite of being alpha, the code is quite stable. In fact, no `real' bugs were found since november 2002. One note on the alpha status: TeXPower has been declared pre-alpha for several years, because I had promised myself to respect backwards-compatibility after alpha release and restrict distribution until this time. But then again, I had planned to get the alpha release out in 2000... As there are a lot of `faithful' users now, and as since GPLing TeXPower to put it on SourceForge, everybody is putting it in Linux distributions and such anyway, there is not much point in not declaring it alpha and putting it on CTAN also... This means the vow for backward-compatibility has to be renewed for the beta release... The alpha status is justified by the following problem areas: DOCUMENTATION: Part of the documentation, especially some of the examples and the FAQ, are still the same as for the much inferior version 0.0.8, partly invalidating them. Furthermore, the manual has been criticised for terseness and lack of examples. Currently, it is written for people who know quite a bit about LaTeX, complemented by the numerous demos showing usage of things. The documentation needs a lot of enhancement. CATCODE MONGERY: Currently stepwise takes everything to be displayed incrementally as a macro argument in the most naive way, destroying everything which needs to change catcodes, like language changes or verbatim printing. There are ways to remedy this, but all of them are complicated and/or awkward, so this need a bit of thought and might lead to backwards- incompatible changes of the basic commands for incremental display. BACKGROUNDS and PANELS: The support for page backgrounds and panels is preliminary at the moment. There will be a much more involved version which might not be completely backward compatibile. LABELS and LINKS: The basic idea for incremental display in TeXPower is to execute everything several times. This can lead to a lot of grief with duplicated links and labels. The most basic precautions are taken, so there shouldn't be any real problems in using links, but there will be a lot of warnings, and I didn't test yet what happens with bibliography and index. THUMBNAILS: No concept yet. PRESENTATION DESIGN: As mentioned above, TeXPower is not mainly design-oriented (and I myself don't really think a presentation gets better by fancy design), but there seems to be a definite need for this kind of thing. It is planned to add more `designish' document classes and provide a user interface for designing presentations. PDF GIMMICKS: With a little trickery with pdf forms, JavaScript and such, amazing things can be achieved which can be useful for presentations (most useful for me would be `popup boxes'). So far, no special pdf features (apart from what can be achieved in a generic way with hyperref) are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the upload. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/exptl/texpower/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submision --- combine class and support packages
by Robin Fairbairns 23 May '03

23 May '03

Peter Wilson writes: > Dear CTAN/Robin, > > I have uploaded combine.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/combine. The distribution > is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The combine class lets you bundle individual documens into a > single document, such as when preparing conference proceedings. > > The axiliary combinet package puts the authors and titles from > maketitle commands into the main document's ToC, and the combnat > package enables the combine class and natbib package to be used > harmoniously together. > > Changes in combnat package version 0.21 (2003/05/22) > o Removed extraneous space from year citation i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: tokenizer
by Jim Hefferon 23 May '03

23 May '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way, via the miracle of automatic mirroring, to your favorite local mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ==================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: tokenizer Author's name: Sascha Herpers Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tokenizer Summary description: Package for tokenizing comma separated lists of strings. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a rather small command, which splits a comma separated list of strings into two tokens at the first encounter of a comma. Each token is saved to a arbitrarily named command. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: labels.sty bugfix release
by Robin Fairbairns 22 May '03

22 May '03

Julian Gilbey writes: > + what you've uploaded > > labels.tar.gz > > + which CTAN node you've uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > + where you want the files to go > > replace the old ones in macros/latex/contrib/supported/labels/ > > + what licensing conditions you apply to your software (see list > below). > > lppl > > + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. > > bugfix release so that the package works correctly with the color > package. thanks for the upload; i've actually installed it in macros/latex/contrib/labels, and deleted the old directory in contrib/supported. (ctan is losing the increasingly silly distinction between supported and other...) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: update to cmap package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 May '03

22 May '03

Vladimir Volovich writes: > i've uploaded the file cmap.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ > > Please replace the file CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/cmap/cmap.sty with > this new file. > > It fixes a typo due to which the package had no effect at all :) that's good. i've installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Upload: srhyphc.zip
by Robin Fairbairns 21 May '03

21 May '03

Aleksandar Jelenak writes: > FILE UPLOADED: srhyphc.zip > UPLOADED ON: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > FILE CONTENTS: One file -- `srhyphc.tex' > CTAN DESTINATION: tex-archive/languages/hyphenation > FILE LICENSE: GPL -- GNU General Public License > SUMMARY: The file `srhyphc.tex' provides hyphenation patterns > for Serbian language in Cyrillic alphabet and T2A TeX > font encoding. i have installed the file as requested. thanks for the upload. robin

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New CTAN package: eCards
by Jim Hefferon 20 May '03

20 May '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: eCards Author's name: D. P. Story Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/eCards Summary description: Create electronic flash cards and have them viewed in random order License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The eCards package for LaTeX enables you to create a series of electronic (flash) cards. The document author provides questions, hints and answers to a series of questions. Question can be verbal-response, or multiple choice/fill-in. Users can test their knowledge by responding to the questions. The questions are delivered in random order. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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