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CTAN has a new package: virtualfontshowto
by Jim Hefferon 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should have by this time made its way to your favorite mirror. Thank you for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: virtualfontshowto.txt Author's name: Thomas A. Schmitz Location on CTAN: /info/virtualfontshowto Summary description: Tutorial on creating virtual fonts License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file gives a brief step-by-step tutorial on how virtual fonts can be created and used. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto 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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Re: msg package update V 0.30
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Bernard Gaulle writes: > Volunteers are really welcome to translate the short (13 lines) > default messages file in their own language. > Currently msg is localized in French, English, Norsk and German. > > The msg package is a LaTeX package designed to localize any > document class or package. Very usefull for end-users who could > obtain messages in their own prefered language. It is also really > easy to use by class/package writers. > > Please, be free to try/test it on any existing package/class and > report any pb. No pb reported at that time. > > The upload on ftp.tex.ac.uk is: msg.tar.gz > Ctan directory: macros/latex/contrib/msg > > % This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of > % the LaTeX Project Public License as of http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt > % > % This file has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > % The current maintainer is Bernard.Gaulle at idris.fr > > V 0.30 mods: added hook for possible keyboard output reencoding; > few documentation changes. i've installed the new version as requested -- thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: TeXtopo v1.4
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Eric Beitz submitted version 1.4 of his TeXtopo package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/textopo/ Summary description: Update of the protein topology plotting LaTeX package TeXtopo License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.4 of the TeXtopo package for plotting transmembrane protein topologies. A new input format has been implemented: HMMTOP; and bugs have been fixed especially a rotation issue with classical flat helical wheels. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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New version (3.13b) of faq released to ctan and web
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

this is an interim release, provoked by the discovery of a serious bug in the code that generates 'static' html files (see html.tar.gz in the distribution). Other changes of note: Revised answers: Label conditional: changes to cope with new release of extract package Label commercial: mention the self-help group for users of Y&Y TeX Label RCS: extend to cover subversion (packages svn and svninfo) Label spell: slightly restructured for CTAN changes New or revised packages (or just ones never before mentioned): pseudocode (mentioned in label algorithms) svn (mentioned in label RCS) svninfo (mentioned in label RCS) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: ps4pdf v0.6i
by CTAN Announcements 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 Rolf Niepraschk submitted an update for ps4pdf Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ps4pdf/ Summary description: Using Postscript commands inside a pdfLaTeX processed document License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version has the new package option notightpage (needs additional external cropping after the `ps2pdf' call). And a small bug with the PfP@container macro is corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The caption package 3.0d
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Axel Sommerfeldt uploaded version 3.0d of his package caption Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/caption License type: lppl (maintained) Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The caption package provides many ways to customise the captions in floating environments like figure and table and cooperates with many other packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is mainly a bugfix release of the caption package 3.0. Changes: - Design change: Split package into two parts, caption.sty (package) and caption3.sty (kernel) - New option name= - sets float name, for use with captionsetup[] - New options figurename= and tablename= - New option type= - sets caption type, for use inside floats/environments - Bugfix in sidecap support: @captype will be defined so captionsetup[] works for these environments, too - Bugfix 04-08-04: . abovecaptionskip & elowcaptionskip will be used for longtables, too . position= will be taken into account (default for longtables: position=top; position=auto will usually not work) - Bugfix 04-10-26: Skips (margin/indention) will only be typeset if set - Bugfix: captionmargin will be set twice now (left+right of the caption) - Bugfix 04-12-19: vrule@heighthtstrutbox@widthz@ will be used instead of strut - Bugfix 05-01-23: @finalstrutstrutbox added - New option strut= - switches the use of the struts on/off (default=on) - Bugfix in single-line-check: captionwidth will be used for the check instead of hsize = width of the vbox Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: FPL Fonts
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 Ralf Stubner submitted version 1.002 of the FPL fonts package. The FPL Fonts provide a set of SC/OsF fonts for URW Palladio L which are compatible with respect to metrics with the Palatino SC/OsF fonts from the original Adobe fonts. The SC and OsF in the FPL Fonts were designed with the glyphs from URW Palladio L as starting point. For some glyphs (eg 'o') I got the best result by scaling and boldening. For others (eg 'h') shifting selected portions of the character gave more satisfying results. All this was done using the free font editor FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net). The kerning data in these fonts comes from Walter Schmidt's improved Palatino metrics. Location on CTAN: /fonts/fpl/ Summary description: FPL Fonts -- SC/OsF for URW Palladio L License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor change in the internal font structure: Refrain from using 'div' for compatibility reasons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tif2eps
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Staszek Wawrykiewicz uploaded version 0.78 of the tif2eps package. Authors: Boguslaw Jackowski, P. Pianowski and P. Strzelczyk License: GPL Location on CTAN: support/pstools/tif2eps TIF2EPS is a PostScript program for the conversion of TIFF files (ver. 6.0) to EPS ones. Compression (LZW, CCITT Fax, RLE, Flate, DCT) and ASCII85 encoding is available. The package may be used for generating colour- separated EPSes, `EPS thumbnails,' and, moreover, little header EPSes, containing only a pointer to a source TIFF file. Employing Ghostscript guarantees portability and efficient processing. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update notification: ltxdiff
by CTAN Announcements 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 Bernd Becker submitted an update to his ltxdiff package. Location on CTAN: /support/ltxdiff Summary description: A Win32 program(me) that compares tokens in two .tex files (or directories [+subdirectories] containing .tex files) and marks them if it thinks it can License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A Win32 program(me) that compares tokens in two .tex files (or directories [+subdirectories] containing .tex files) and may mark differences according to the options set by using GNU Diff to find tokens to be marked. It tries to be clever at this and won't mark something if it thinks it shouldn't, ie. \[10mm] won't be marked as changed if it was \[8mm]. The number of commands and environments it knows is small (the ones I use in my game design) and include some of my own, which might lead to strange behaviour or even crashes or endless loops - being able to interrupt the program(me) with CTRL+C comes in handy in such cases - if you use commands/environments of the same name but different definition. An other diff program(me) may be used if it has the switches -b, -B, -d, and -E and they are compatible to GNU Diff's. Changes: 1. corrections and additions to readme.txt (you shouldn't write in a second language if you've fever) it should make a bit of sense now at least. 2. -b and -c switches compiled in ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: URW Letter Gothic fonts
by CTAN Announcements 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Walter Schmidt upoloaded a bundel called lettergothic containing: (1) the PostScript font family Letter Gothic, which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/> (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; this material is released under LPPL Because of the Aladdin license, the bundle has been installed in: nonfree/fonts/urw/lettergothic Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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