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CTAN update -- preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz
by Reinhard Zierke 12 Mar '02

12 Mar '02

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz and preview-0.6.1.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ and unpack the README from it to support/preview-latex/README Create a symbolic link from support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz to preview-latex-0.6.1.tar.gz so that people can always get the newest version under this name. Unpack preview-0.6.1.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.6.1 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex is a system for displaying inline images of selected parts of a file in Emacs source buffers. It is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, GNU Emacs-21.1, AUC TeX, a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. XEmacs support is again being worked on. If you are planning on contributing, please contact the developers' list. Due to missing image support of Emacs-21.1 under Microsoft Windows, this platform is not usable at the current point of time. Release focus have been user interface improvements and documentation. The TeXinfo documentation now also contains instructions for the used LaTeX style, and users of Emacs' desktop package will have previews survive into their next Emacs session. The LaTeX style now has an option for making TeX bounding boxes known to Dvips in case it gets them wrong (frequent with packages like PStricks). Due to a defective backport of security handling, GNU GhostScript-6.53 failed to work with version 0.6. We now don't use the incomplete functionality. User feedback about errors and suggested feature improvements is welcome and heeded. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * AUC TeX can be found at several places, but if you want the latest 11.11 (alpha, but stable AFAIK) with no known issues concerning preview-latex, you can find it there as well. * RPMs for preview-latex and AUC TeX are provided for users of RedHat Linux. The RPMs require a few packages: * GhostScript 6.51 is included in RH 7.2, but if you use an earlier release it can be downloaded from the RH7.2 updates, <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.2/en/os/i386/> * Finally, Emacs-21.1 can be downloaded from rawhide, <URL:ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/>. I installed this using 'rpm -i --nodeps --force', which worked for me, but since it does not follow the usual emacs + emacs-X11 + emacs-nox, YMMV. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex and CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN Submission: CWEBbin 3.64 [p20]
by Rainer Schoepf 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Andreas Scherer wrote: > I have uploaded the files > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/README.p20 > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin/cwebbin-p20.tar.gz > > containing the adaptation of CWEBbin to the current CWEB 3.64 as of March > 2002. CWEBbin consists of a set of change files (to be applied with the TIE > processor) that make the original sources usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers on > UNIX/Linux, MS/Windows, and Amiga. Extra functionality, like TeX macros and > CWEB macros for international documentation of CWEB programs, is introduced > in the archive and documented in README.p20. Binary files are not shipped > with this distribution. > > CWEBbin is contributed to the public domain. Licensing conditions are the > same as those of CWEB proper. > > Both the README.p20 file and the cwebbin-p20.tar.gz archive should be > installed at > > CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin > > and should replace the now out-dated version [p19]. Thanks for the update, which I installed as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package
by Robin Fairbairns 11 Mar '02

11 Mar '02

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace > /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind. The distribution is under the > LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or bibliography > and/or the index. etc., to the Table of Contents listing. > > Changes in version 1.5c > o Fixed problem with ocetcmark i've installed the files as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update -- bmeps 1.0.2
by Reinhard Zierke 10 Mar '02

10 Mar '02

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20020306.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bmeps 1.0.2 Name and email: Dirk Krause Suggested location on CTAN: CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps Summary description: Bugfix for the bmeps program License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bmeps is a program to convert from PNG, TIFF, JPEG, NetPBM to EPS. It writes PS levels 1, 2 and 3. Depending on the PS level one can use run-length, flate and ASCII85-compression or encoding. Alpha channels in PNG and TIFF can be converted to PS level 3 image masks. This package contains a bugfix related to malformed DSC comments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the update, I installed it as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/bmeps/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- ccaption package
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Peter Wilson writes: > I have just uploaded ccaption.tar to the UK incoming directory. It is a > new version of the ccaption package to match the soon-to-be-released version > 2.1 of the subfigure package. AFTER subfigure 2.1 has been installed on CTAN > please use ccaption.tar to replace the current > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption, and announce it (I am away on > business all next week). > > From the README: > > The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation captions', > unnumbered captions, and a legen heading for any environment. Methods are > also provided to define captions for use outside floats and to define new > float (and subfloats with the subfigure package) environments. Tools are > provided for specifying your own captioning styles. > > Changes in version 3.1 > o subfigure option code changed to match released version 2.1 of the > subfigure package. the files were (eventually) uploaded a day or so ago, at the same time as was the new version of subfigure. i omitted to send this announcement at that time -- my apologies. thanks, peter, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- memfixa package
by Robin Fairbairns 08 Mar '02

08 Mar '02

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memfixa.sty to UK/incoming. Please use this to replace > the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/memfixa.sty. > > The memfixa package provides temporary fixes for the memoir class. This > release (v1.2) provides a trial fix for hiccups when the natbib package is > used with the memoir class. I would be grateful if anybody using the > memoir/natbib combination tried it out and let me know if it does not work > before I add it to the next release of memoir. i've installed the package as requested: thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: SQLTeX
by Jim Hefferon 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org. It should make its way through the mirroring process 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: SQLTeX Author's name: Oscar van Eijk Location on CTAN: support/SQLTeX Summary description: An SQL Preprocessor for LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SQLTeX is a well documented preprocessor to enable the use of SQL statements in LaTeX . It is a perl script that reads an input file containing the LaTeX source with SQL commands, and writes a LaTeX file that can be processed with your LaTeX package. The SQL commands will be replaced by their values. It's possible to select a single field for substitution substitution in your LaTeX document, or to be used as input in another SQL command. When an SQL command returns multiple fields and or rows, the values can only be used for substitution in the document. This version only supports MySQL databases. It has been tested on Linux, but should work an all platforms where Perl is installed. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: CTAN submission --- subfigure and captcont packages.
by Robin Fairbairns 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Steven Douglas Cochran writes (making it possible for me to produce two separate announcements, but it's late and i'm bundling them into one): > BEGIN======================== subfigure package ======================== > 1. Name of your contribution: > subfigure > > Your name: > Steven Douglas Cochran > > Summary description: > LaTeX package for providing support for the inclusion of > small, `sub', figures and tables. It simplifies the > positioning, captioning and labeling of them within a single > figure or table environment. In addition, this package > allows such subcaptions to be written to the List of Figures > or List of tables if desired. > > Suggested CTAN directory: > macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfigure/ > > Short text for announcement: > > The subfigure package version 2.1 is finally (officially) > released. If you have been using version 2.0 or earlier, > than you should notice no difference in its default behavior. > If you have been using a beta release of version 2.1, you may > need to add the tight option to maintain the same > look-and-feel that you are used to. In addition, if you > use the options: RM, SF, TT, MD, BF, IT, SL, SC, or UP; you > will need to add their lowercase counterparts to get the same > output (see below). > > The main differences are: > > 1. Bug fixes. > > 2. Second optional argument to subfigure to allow control > over the list-of-figures entry separately from the > subcaption. > > 3. A tight option for a more compact and better looking > arrangement of your subfigures, the subcaptions and the > main caption. > > 4. A subref command to allow references to the subfigure > without the associated figure number (useful in the main > caption). > > 5. New raggedright option for the subcaption. Also, > changed the RM, SF, TT, MD, BF, IT, SL, > SC, and UP options to only affect the label portion > of the subcaption. Their lowercase counterparts affect > the subcaption text as before. You can now combine some > of these options for different effects---see the > documentation. > > 2. Indicate the license: > LaTeX Project Public License > > 3. Uploaded file(s): > The uploaded subfigure.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a > local ./subfigure directory. The contents of this directory > are: > > Makefile To install or process documentation on > a UNIX system. > README Manifest and overview of these files. > > subfigure.dtx Code and documentation. > subfigure.ins > > test.tex Test / example files. > test2.tex > test3.tex > test4.tex > END========================== subfigure package ======================== > > > BEGIN======================== captcont package ========================= > 1. Name of your contribution: > captcont > > Your name: > Steven Douglas Cochran > > Summary description: > > LaTeX package for providing support for retaining a figure or > table number across several float environments---usually over > several pages. It also allows control over the contents of > the List-of-Figures and the List-of-Tables pages. > > Suggested CTAN directory: > macros/latex/contrib/supported/captcont/ > > Short text for announcement: > > The captcont package provides the ability to continue the > numbering in your float environment (figure, table, etc.) > with a minimal overhead. This package adds three commands: > caption*, captcont, and captcont*. Along with the > caption command, these give full control over the caption > numbering, caption text and the entries in the list-of > pages. > > o caption and captcont generate list-of page entries. > o caption and caption* increment the figure or table > counter. > > This package also fully supports the subfigure package. > > 2. Indicate the license: > LaTeX Project Public License > > 3. Uploaded file(s): > The uploaded captcont.tar.gz file unzips and untars into a local > ./captcont directory. The contents of this directory are: > > Makefile To install or process documentation on > a UNIX system. > README Manifest and overview of these files. > > captcont.dtx Code and documentation. > captcont.ins > > test.tex Test / example file. > END======================== captcont package ========================= i've installed the files as suggested. thanks for the uploads. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update -- webfiles 1.0.1
by Reinhard Zierke 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

----- Forwarded message from Mark Potse ----- I just uploaded version 1.0.1 of the WEBFILES package to CTAN. Although the last release was two years ago, there are few changes. The code for PDF links has been improved, the color of links changed from red to blue to conform with other packages, and the documentation now mentions that recent versions of Levy & Knuth's cweave should be run with the +e flag to work correctly with webfiles.sty! Mark Potse ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/web/webfiles/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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New CTAN package: TeXaide
by Jim Hefferon 05 Mar '02

05 Mar '02

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process 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: TeXaide Author's name: Design Science Location on CTAN: support/texaide Summary description: TeXaide is a special version of Equation Editor that generates TeX & LaTeX. License type: nosource Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXaide TeXaide(TM) is a special version of our Equation Editor that generates TeX using MathType's TeX translator technology. Whereas Equation Editor can be used with any application that supports OLE or can paste a graphic from the clipboard, TeXaide only generates TeX on the clipboard, where it can be pasted into any TeX system. Now you can generate TeX equations using Equation Editor's easy-to-use interface! Insert hundreds of characters and symbols without having to look them up! The following TeX translators are supplied: Plain TeX AMS TeX AMS LaTeX LaTeX 2.09 and later TeXaide is available for Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, NT 4.0 and newer, and comes with a comprehensive help file that describes how to use the product. The download is only 1MB. TeXaide is free; all we ask in return is for your email address. From time to time we'll send you information related to our mathematical typesetting products but will not use your email address for any other reason. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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