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Re: CTAN upload notification: pst-optic
by Rainer Schöpf 18 Jan '03

18 Jan '03

> Name of contribution: pst-optic > Summary description: A pstricks package for optical lenses and mirrors > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pst-optic offers macros for lenses and mirrors to build > optical systems and drawing the rays. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. As you suggested, I installed the files in graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Updated version of tugboat macros on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

i have just installed my latest working version of the tugboat macros on ctan at macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat there are significant changes between this version, and the one previously on ctan: potential writers of tugboat (or tug conference proceedings) papers are urged to update their macro files. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: hatching.zip on DANTE:/incoming
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Staszek Wawrykiewicz writes: > > I've just uploaded to DANTE:/incoming/hatching.zip > > Please unpack it in graphics/metapost/macros/ > > > > The file HATCHING.MP contains a set of METAPOST macros for hatching > > interior of closed paths. The examples of usage included. > > Licence: PD i have installed the files as requested (at the cambridge ctan, for ctan internal reasons...). thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission: Day Roman font (bug fix)
by Rainer Schoepf 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Walter Schmidt wrote: > I have uploaded the files > > readme.dayroman > dayroman.zip > > to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, move them > to the directory fonts/DayRoman, thus replacing the corresponding > present files. The existing archive file day_t1.zip, however, > is to remain unchanged. > > This release fixes several bugs in the LaTeX support files for > the Day Roman typeface, which I uploaded recently. The changes > affect particularly the use of ligatures and the shape of the > Polish diacritics. Besides, I have corrected a very misleading > typo in the documentation. > > Many apologies for the bugs and for the confusion caused by > the faulty documentation. Credits to Staszek Wawrykiewicz for > spotting the bugs with the Polish letters! Thanks for the update. I installed it in fonts/DayRoman For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- bundle of 8 bookhand fonts
by Robin Fairbairns 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded 9 files to UK incoming. They are all under the > LPPL. Please: > > o Move contents of bookhands.tar.gz into fonts/bookhands. > > o For each of the 8 files, move them to fonts/bookhands and untar > there to create new subdirectories: carolmin.tar, egothic.tar, > humanist.tar, inslrmin.tar, pgothic.tar, rotunda.tar, sqrcaps.tar, > and tgothic.tar. > > This distribution completes my planned set of bookhand > (METAFONT) fonts and packages covering manuscript scripts from the > 1st century until Guthenberg and Caxton. The new hands are: > o Square Capitals 1st century onwards (sqrcaps) > o Insular Minuscule 6th cenury onward (inslrmin) > o Carolingian Minuscule 8-12th century (carolmin) > o Early Gothic 11-12th century (egothic) > o Gothic Textura Quadrata 13-15th century (tgothic) > o Gothic Textura Prescius 13th onward (pgothic) > o Rotunda 13-15th century (rotunda) > o Humanist Minuscule 14th onward (humanist). > > The existing set includes: > o Roman Rustic 1st to 6th century > o Uncial 3-6th > o Half Uncial 3-9th > o Artificial Uncial 6-10th > o Insular Majuscule 6-9th > > The file bsamples.ps in bookhands.tar.gz shows examples of each > of the fonts. installed as requested (in the spirit, if not the letter -- we don't unpack things direct into the archive), and set to propagate. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New package on CTAN: covington
by Jim Hefferon 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it 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: covington Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: fonts/covington Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The covington package provides all of the font metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files, and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font with TeX and LaTeX. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission -- BibTool 2.47
by Rainer Schoepf 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Gerd Neugebauer wrote: > I have uploaded Release 2.47 of BibTool to > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/BibTool-2.47.tar.gz > BibTool is distributed under the GPL. > > The uploaded file should go into the directory > biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool. The file BibTool-2.46.tar.gz residing there > can be deleted. > > Several and tiny enhancements have made it into this release. > I append the README file for a general description > of BibTool. > > Ciao > Gerd > > ====================================================================== > > ###### ############ > ####### ############ > ## ## ## > ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## > ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## > ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### > ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### > > ====================================================================== > > BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases > > > BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and > bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with > the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to > fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which > goes beyond the possibilities --- and intentions --- of BibTeX. The > possibilities of BibTool include > > * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters. > > * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful > error messages. > > * Semantic checks can be specified by the user. > > * Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free > definable sort key. > > * Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules > or according to an own specification. > > * Selecting references used in one publication which are found by > analyzing an .aux file. > > * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions). > > * Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to > specify the rewriting rules. > > * Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string > definitions. > > * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases. > > > BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX of more than 60 > pages (and still growing). > > BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating > systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in > source code. No compiled versions are available from the author > (Useless to ask!). > > BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: > > * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > * ctan.tug.org:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool > > Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. > Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) > > gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - > > Alternatively get the file BibTool-x.xx.zip where x.xx is the version > number. Unpack it with the command > > unzip BibTool-x.xx.zip > > It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the > installation instructions in the file install.tex. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed the new file in bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibtool and deleted the old one. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload to CTAN
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > I´ve uploaded the first official version of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on > the server dante.ctan.org in the directory /incoming/shapepatch I > created. > ShapePatch is a patch against transfig, that adds a new output driver. > This driver writes definitions for the TeX macro shapepar by Donald > Arsenau. Defining such shapes is normally crucial, using this driver one > can sketch the shape in XFig and then convert it to shapepar. Details > can be found in the attached readme file. > Since it is a patch to transfig, I think the best place for it is a > subdirectory beyond the graphics/transfig or a separate directory > graphics/transfig-shape. > As for the license, it should be the same as transfig, which is listed > as GPL in your Catalogue. Thanks for the upload. Installing your patch within the graphics/transfig tree is not easily possible, as this tree is mirrored. I have therefore taken the liberty to install it in graphics/transfig-shapepatch For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload notification: SplitIndex
by Rainer Schöpf 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 Markus Kohm wrote: > Name of contribution: SplitIndex > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex > Summary description: Using a unlimited number of indices with almost every LaTeX-class > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > SplitIndex consists of a LaTeX package, splitidx, and a > small program, splitindex. The package may be used to > produce one index or several indices. Without using the > program the number of indices is limited by the number of > TeXs output streams. But using the program you may use even > more than 16 indices. At this case, splitidx outputs only a > single file jobname.idx and the program splits that file > into several raw index files and calls your favorite index > processor for each of it. > > The splitindex program is available as perl-program > (splitindex.pl), java-program (splitindex.java/class), > Windows-CYGWIN binary (splitindex.exe), Linux-i386-ELF > binary (splitindex-Linux-i386), OpenBSD-3.0-i386 binary > (splitindex-OpenBSD-i386) and even as TeX program > (splitindex.tex with some limitations). The source > splitindex.c is also part of the distribution. > > There's an installation documentation (install.txt) and an > installation script (install.sh) at the package. > > The package was testet with the standard LaTeX classes and > the KOMA-Script classes. > > This release is a bugfix of the Nov '02 release and > intended to be stable though the version number is less > than 1. > > Fixes: > - no more segmentation fault, if a unknown long option > name is used > - some spellings at documentation > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/splitindex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN upload lineno.sty
by Robin Fairbairns 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Stephan Boettcher writes: > Please find in ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno.tar.gz a new version > v3.09 of lineno.sty, to replace in macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno. > > This update fixes a bug in the nameref.sty detection test, which was > gobbling a token from the AtBeginDocument hook. All users should > consider to update to this version. that was quick -- or have you been aware of the bug longer than i have? anyway, i've installed the files as requested -- thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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