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New CTAN package: subfiles
by Jim Hefferon 10 Jun '02

10 Jun '02

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: subfiles Author's name: Federico Garcia Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfiles Summary description: Allows individual typeseting of files that are input License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Using subfiles set, the user can handle multi-file projects more comfortably, since it is possible both to process the subsidiary files by themselves, and to process the main file that includes them, without making any changes to them. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New version of UK TeX FAQ on CTAN and on Web
by Robin Fairbairns 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

I've just installed on CTAN a new version of the UK TeX FAQ. This new version is also available via the Web via http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq, and TeX distribution builders will find a copy suitable for their use in the usual place. This new version includes an extremely useful answer from David Kastrup, which summarises recent work on the TeX document preparation environment (and puts it in the context of better established work); this answer appears in the TeX Projects section of the FAQ. In addition, there are a few new answers I have written and a number of minor corrections, some of which address changes in the layout of CTAN. The README file that comes with the distribution contains a Licence statement (PD), at Thomas Esser's urging. As always, comments, suggesstions or corrections are welcome. A new address for them has been created, which appears at the appropriate place in the FAQ (somewhat hidden to discourage the bozos who fail to read the surrounding text that says this is not a question-answering service), but the old address will continue to work for a while. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer

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CTAN submission -- skak version 1.0 - chess typeseting the easy way
by Reinhard Zierke 05 Jun '02

05 Jun '02

----- Forwarded message from Torben Hoffmann ----- Upload: skak2.zip Node: ftp.dante.de Where to go: replace the old skak package in fonts/skak Licensing conditions: LPPL (Latex Project Public Licence) This software is copyright but you are granted a license which gives you, the ``user'' of the software, legal permission to copy, distribute, and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the software and then distribute it (even just locally) you must change the name of the software to avoid confusion. Summary: This is version 1.0 of the skak package - it differs from the earlier non-numbered releases in the following aspects: 1. The documentation has been split into three documents: * A short user guide. * An example of how to use the skak package. * A reference manual listing all available commands. 2. Some minor bugs have been removed - thanks to all that have contacted me regarding these subtle errors. Best regards and happy chess typesetting. /Torben ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/skak/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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TexLive images withdrawn
by Robin Fairbairns 01 Jun '02

01 Jun '02

a last-minute problem has arisen, and the TexLive images i put on ctan systems/texlive/Images last week have now been withdrawn. i've deleted them here in cambridge; they will disappear from the rest of ctan in the next few days. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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pdfTeX upheavals, texlive sources
by Robin Fairbairns 31 May '02

31 May '02

following a lot of confusion about the state of pdftex on ctan, most of it arising from problems in areas beyond the control of the ctan team, it has been decided that ctan will no longer hold a pdftex directory on the main tree. (the pre-existing pdftex directory has been moved to obsolete/systems/pdftex.) the sources of pdftex are available in a number of alternative places: as a pdftex source archive: systems/web2c -- which has been brought up to date after a long hiatus as part of a complete distribution source archive: systems/texlive/Source - a new directory containing compressed archives of the latest state of the texlive discs; this is a *new* directory systems/unix/teTeX-beta - the latest teTeX snapshot (note, at the time this beta is finally released, the source will become systems/unix/teTeX) while this means that there's no headline directory containing pdftex, the ctan team consider that the situation that we now have consistent, maintained, copies of the source more satisfactory. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: Swimgraph
by Jim Hefferon 31 May '02

31 May '02

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: Swimgraph Author's name: Martin J. Osborne Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/swimgraph Summary description: Macros for producing graphical and textual representations of swimming performances License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package provides two macros that produce representations of a swimmer's performances. The user records data in a text file and specifies as arguments of the macros the date range in which she is interested; the macros extract the relevant information from the file and process it as follows. * swimgraph produces a graph of the times in a single swimming event (specified as an argument), plotting long course and short course times in separate lines. Records and qualifying times, stored in text files, may optionally be included on the graph. * swimtext produces a written record of the times in all events. Files of current world and Canadian records are included. The package requires the PSTricks and keyval packages. For attractive output, it requires also a color output device. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN upload notification: mn2eguide.zip
by Rainer Schoepf 31 May '02

31 May '02

On Fri, 31 May 2002 Nadine Thompson wrote: > Name of contribution: mn2eguide.zip > Suggested location on CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex2e/supported/mnras > Summary description: Style guide to writing MNRAS papers using the mn2e class file plus sample file. > License type: Nosell > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > A guide for authors who are preparing papers for Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) using the > LaTeX2e document preparation system and the mn2e class file, together with a sample article. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. As the license type is nosell, I added the files to the directory nonfree/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mnras and added a link in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mnras For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN submission -- soul.sty
by Reinhard Zierke 29 May '02

29 May '02

----- Forwarded message from Melchior FRANZ ----- I've just uploaded version 2.3 of `soul.sty' as archive >--- soul.tar.gz ---< to >--- ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ ---< Please replace the contents of >--- /macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/ ---< by the new files. The package is again licenced under the terms of the >--- LPPL ---< The soul package provides hyphenatable letterspacing, underlining, overstriking, and highlighting. Version 2.3 ============================================================= - fixes a nasty hack, that kept soul from playing nice with ccfonts.sty (beton.sty), cmbright.sty and possibly other packages. This is now solved cleanly. (Under normal circumstances this would have become version 2.2.1 or something, but soul is IMHO feature complete and has already stabilized after the rewrite. So I consider this fix worth getting released soon and with its own minor release number. Imagine, this was the very last bug and I had to stick to an odd version number like 2.2.1a forever. Shudder ...) - fixes some small bugs in the documentation, as always - GO FORTH now and steal sheep! :-] m. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/soul/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- thumbpdf v3.1
by Reinhard Zierke 26 May '02

26 May '02

----- Forwarded message from Heiko Oberdiek ----- I have uploaded thumbpdf.zip in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. After unzipping it updates the files in the directory CTAN:support/thumbpdf/ The licence remains LPPL 1.2. Version 3.1 is mainly a bug fix release: * At error messages version 3.0 exits before printing the message. * Some minor bug fixes, see thumbpdf.pl. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/thumbpdf/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- cmbright update
by Reinhard Zierke 26 May '02

26 May '02

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploaded the file cmbr-update.zip to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org. Please, unzip this file in the CTAN directory fonts/cmbright. This submission will update the CM-Bright fonts to version 1.0g. Changes affect the fonts metrics of the text companion fonts, which were wrong. The font shapes are, fortunately, unchanged. Besides, I have `cleaned up' the documentation of the macro package. Special thanks to Vladimir Volovich, who -- once again -- spotted the longstanding bugs. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed the new files as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/cmbright/ -- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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