On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Basil Malyshev submitted an update to his bakoma package.
Location on CTAN: nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma
Update includes following refinments:
Font Setup Refined generation Omega Font Metrics (OFM) -- using OFM Level 1 instead of Level 0, fixed bug in OVP2OVF. -- It sis intended to support OTF fonts coming with Acrobat 7.0. Refined installation of Type 1 Expert fonts with AFM files. Accepts AFM files from MAC (CR/CRLF). More robust diagnostic of referencing absent encoding vector.
Options/Document Properties (DVIEW, TeXWord) HyperLinks tab: new flag `Consider missed extension as Generic extension' enables replacing empty extension with extension of generated file.
TeXWord: Inserts blank line after `egin{document}' at openning already existing LaTeX file, that improves editing document title, etc.
Installation program includes option `Create icons in Start menu'.
More details about changes see at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html
Bye. Basil K. Malyshev 7-Feb-2005
-------------------- About BaKoMa TeX Word ------------------
BaKoMa TeX 7.0 supports two coexisting IDE:
- BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor [New in V 7.0].
- Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE.
About BaKoMa TeX Word.
BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
- It is True WYSIWYG Editor. It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer.
- It is True LaTeX Editor. It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related with import graphics, font support, and document export.
It imports: EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. It supports fonts: OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. It exports: DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: Prosper, PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, etc.
Editing Prosper's slides in WYSIWTYG interface is one impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
Another important application of `BaKoMa TeX Word' is final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html
Some snapshots are available at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/
Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/
Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf