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CTAN upload: corelfonts
by Jim Hefferon 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite local 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: corelfonts Author's name: Tony McClelland Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/corelfonts Summary description: Perl script to install all Bitstream fonts on a Corel Ventura CD for use with LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are several Bitstream PostScript Type1 fonts on the Corel Ventura 5 CD (and probably other Corel products). This perl script will automatically install them to your TeXMF tree and create LaTeX package files to use with them. You will need a Corel CD, perl and fontinst for this to work. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.25
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Basil K. Malyshev ----- I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory update for BaKoMa TeX 5.25 (issued 12-Feb-2003). Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20. This version has following bug fixing and refinments: TeX4HT improvements: * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode. * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory. * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background. * Fixed tabbing translated via picture. Other fixes: * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook. * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories. * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset, * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML. * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev 12-Feb-2003 PS: Please send announce to appropriate mailing lists and news groups. --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.25 ---------------------- CONTENTS * Highlights * Graphical Capabilities * Fonts * User Interface * PDF Generation Features * HTML Generation features * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.25 For more information about BaKoMa TeX see <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 HIGHLIGHTS * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region of the file being edited. (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). * PostScript enabled TeX system. ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. * Easy to install and use. * Much less expensive than other analogues. GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, which is tested for compatibility with output from popular software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. FONTS BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), * PostScript Type 3, * TrueType, * OpenType, * TeX PK/VF. The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), * EC/TC, * LH (T2A), * Concrete (Math, ECC), * Malvern, * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. Math Fonts: * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). Diagram drawing fonts: * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. Any font type can be used for any output device/format. This feature is supported by automatic font conversion between font formats when needed. This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. USER INTERFACE * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, mathematics, pictures, etc. * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, * Quick navigation via document structure, * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), * Powerful support for different input encodings, * Project support, * Graphics import assistant, * Assitance for multi-file documents: context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. * Support for Multi-User systems. OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS * View on Windows Display. * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. * PostScript (really scalable), * PDF, * HTML. Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. PDF GENERATION FEATURES * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). * Creating PDF files which share fonts. Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. HTML GENERATION FEATURES BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX documents into HTML files. * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, such as slides. In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX into generated HTML pages. *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.25 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 *** Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...') ----------------- * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1* in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts. * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files. BibEdit - new application ------------------------- BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program. It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer) or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|cite).. Features: * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful to handle situation when `ibliography' command includes several files. * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints for every editing mode; * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types; * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'. * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed. * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field; * Quick insertion of citation into your document. User Interface -------------- * Improved `Insert' menu. + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command. Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code. + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter) now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you: (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog (2) modify default arguments for environment. + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography: In case of ibliography command launches BibEdit, In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him. If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it. + `cite' (Alt+C) inserts `cite' LaTeX command. However, at second call (when cite{} is already under cursor) it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries. + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' lets you prepare document for indexing in one click. + ` ef' (Ctrl+R) and `pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to cite command, at second click, show list of labels in current document. + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `includegraphics') detects that cursor is already under some `includegraphics' command and edit it instead of inserting another command. DVI Viewer ---------- * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package. * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline. * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript' commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file. * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance, it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.). Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened. * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98. * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined. TeX4HT ------ * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix). Fixes done in BaKoMa TeX 5.25 ----------------------------- TeX4HT improvements: * Improved appearance of imported graphics in HTML4 output mode. * Fixed copying images from Common Picture Directory. * Sets background color in css to keep it consistent with image background. * Fixed tabbing translated via picture. Other fixes: * Updated Mathematica support, added wrisym, notebook2e, and notebook. * Buffer overflow (RunPL) at converting documents in too deep directories. * HTML external links, generated by DVI2HTML, now overloads frameset, * Fixed translating of URL directories (terminated by `/') to PDF and HTML. * Added Belleek fonts to PSFONTS.BKZ. For more information about changes see <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ---------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you very much for the submission. I installed it as suggested replacing and expanding the old version in the nonfree CTAN tree at CTAN:nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: evweek.cls (extension of Latex Calendar Bundle)
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Emanuele Vicentini ----- I've uploaded in incoming/evweek a small spinn-off/bugfix of weekly.cls of the LaTeX Calendar Bundle. Licese is lppl. I'd put evweek.{dtx,ins} in a new subdirectory of calendar: macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib Here's the summary: evweek.cls is a small extension of weekly.cls, the class for the weekly calendar format of the LaTeC Calendar Bundle. I've fixed a little problem with the height of titleboxes; the only extensions of this first release are five new options that allow a greater control over fonts used to typeset titleboxes. ===== Saluti, Emanuele. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thank you for the submission. I installed it as suggested in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/contrib/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission: LaTeX package gensymb.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt <w-a-schmidt(a)arcor.de> ----- I have uploaded the file gensymb.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unpack it to the CTAN directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/was . Doing so will add the files gensymb.dtx and gensymb.ins and update the files upgreek.dtx and readme.1st. The other files in this directory are to remain unchanged. This is the first (and somewhat experimental) release of the LaTeX package gensymb.sty. It provides generic commands degree, celsius, perthousand, micro and ohm, which work both in text and math mode. Various means are provided to fake the symbols or take them from particular symbol fonts, if they are not available in the default fonts used in the document. This should be perfectly transparent at user level, so that one can apply the same notation for units of measurement in text and math mode and with arbitrary typefaces. Note that the package has been designed to work flawlessly in conjunction with the famous units.sty. This upload updates also the source file of my package upgreek.sty. However, only the documentation has been changed with respect to the new gensymb package, which can coopereate with upgreek. The macro package upgreek.sty is actually unchanged. thank you in advance Walter Schmidt ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new and updated files in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/ as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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withdrawal of systems/unix/teTeX/1.0
by Robin Fairbairns 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

with the arrival of teTeX 2.0, all traces of teTeX 1.0 are being removed from the archive. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Need file to be removed from server
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Ross Maloney writes: > I have uploaded xbibfile-0.7.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of > ftp.tex.ac.uk for consideration for inclusion in CTAN. > > I suggest it be located in CTAN at biblio/bibtex/utils. The package > xbibfile is released under the GNU Public License. > > Xbibfile is used to create and search BibTeX databases. It is > written in C and uses the GTK graphics libraries to create its user > interface. It was written under Linux using the X Window system. > It was written out of my need for such a research tool and has > performed satisfactory in that role. At some future stage I may get > around to increasing its capabilities so some hooks are in place for > doing that expansion. However, it is usable in its current state. > > This is the first public release of this package. The 0.7 is a > version number for my own records. i have installed the contents of your .tar.gz in a new directory biblio/bibtex/utils/xbibtex, which is now set off to propagate. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- needspace package
by Robin Fairbairns 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded needspace.sty to UK incoming. Please ue this to > replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/needspace.sty. It is released > under the LPPL. > > Package Description: > > Provides commands to reserve space at the bottom of a page. If > there is not enough space on the current page a new one is started. > > Changes in version 1.3 (2003/02/07) > o Added new Needspace and Needspace* commands (providing a new algorithm) i've installed the file as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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installed up-to-date version of scripttex
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

macros/scripttex, on ctan, was dated 1991; an eager user spotted a newer version on the web. i've therefore contacted the author, adrian mccarthy, and with his permission have installed the latest version (v.104 of march 2002) to replace the older version. beware: some file names in the previous version have changed. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN (Cambridge) upload: varwidth.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Donal Arseneau writes: > I have uploaded varwidth.sty and varwidth.xml (for the catalogue) > to ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming. Please put it in > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc. > > I am releasing this as version 0.9 because it has gotten mouldy > waiting for me to get back to it. (It does work, mostly.) > Anyone who tries it should be sure to make bug reports. > > It is released under LPPL. > > % The varwidth environment is based on minipage, and takes the same > % parameters, but the specified width is just a maximum value -- the > % environment will be typeset with a narrower natural width if > % possible. > % > % In a varwidth environment, paragraph line-breaks are chosen > % according to the specified width, but each line is reset to > % match a narrower natural width, if there is one. > % > % The arrowragged command works like aggedright, but produces > % generally narrower lines in paragraphs, but more text in the last > % line (the lines have more-equal lengths). > % > % This version works fine, but there are still many questions about > % how it would work best. Should there be a version that avoids the > % usual minipage formatting style? > % > % Numbered equations are not handled well, especially with leqno. > % AMSmath environments have not been tried, and undoubtedly fail. > % > % It also defines a ewcolumntype{V} that is the {varwidth} > % counterpart of a p column in tabulars. i've installed the file as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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minor update of uk faq
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

i've updated the faq in a very minor way, and reinstalled on ctan and the web. changes: correct links for tetex v2.0 new text (and revised link) for question tds Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion

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