the dante upload daemon call across the north sea, saying:
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: thumbs Version number: 1.0a Author's name: H.-Martin Münch Author's email: Martin.Muench@Uni-Bonn.de Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ Summary description: This package allows to create one or more customizable thumb index(es), providing a quick and easy reference method for large documents. License type: lppl
Announcement text:
CTAN has a new package: thumbs
This package puts running, customizable thumb marks in the outer margin, moving downward as the chapter number (or whatever shall be marked by the thumb marks) increases. Additionally an overview page/table of thumb marks can be added automatically, which gives the respective names of the thumbed objects, the page where the object/thumb mark first appears, and the thumb mark itself at the respective position. The thumb marks are probably useful for documents, where a quick and easy way to find e.g. a chapter is needed, for example in reference guides, anthologies, or quite large documents.
thanks for the upload; i have pulled the files back to cambridge, installed them and made an entry in the catalogue repository.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs/ and for the tds: install/macros/latex/contrib/thumbs.tds.zip . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/thumbs
The catalogue entry will not appear anywhere until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team