the daemon cries:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: flowfram Author's name: Nicola Talbot Package version: 1.14 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/ Summary description: Create text frames for posters, brochures or magazines License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Now loads xkeyval rather than keyval
Now loads xfor and etoolbox
Added new package options:
verbose (mainly for debugging messages)
thumbtabs (key=value option replacing options ttbtitle, ttbnotitle, ttbnum and ttbnonum)
pages
Changed the following package options to boolean key=value (missing value assumed true, providing backward compatibility):
rotate
color
Made usedframebreaktrue global in definition of framebreak
Added usedframebreaktrue to definition of
ewpage
New counter: absolutepage (keeps track of physical page rather than page number given by c@page).
Added pre-chapter hook ffprechapterhook
Added page exclusion list.
New commands to set page list and page exclusion list:
- flowsetpagelist
- flowsetexclusion
- flowaddexclusion
- dynamicsetpagelist
- dynamicsetexclusion
- dynamicaddexclusion
- staticsetpagelist
- staticsetexclusion
- staticaddexclusion
- New commands to make it easier to switch frames on and off on-the-fly:
flowswitchonnext
flowswitchoffnext
flowswitchonnextonly
flowswitchoffnextonly
flowswitchonnextodd
flowswitchoffnextodd
flowswitchonnextoddonly
flowswitchoffnextoddonly
dynamicswitchonnext
dynamicswitchoffnext
dynamicswitchonnextonly
dynamicswitchoffnextonly
dynamicswitchonnextodd
dynamicswitchoffnextodd
dynamicswitchonnextoddonly
dynamicswitchoffnextoddonly
staticswitchonnext
staticswitchoffnext
staticswitchonnextonly
staticswitchoffnextonly
staticswitchonnextodd
staticswitchoffnextodd
staticswitchonnextoddonly
staticswitchoffnextoddonly
ffaddtoadjustframeshook
Added fftolerance (now only warns about moving to unequal width frame if width difference is greater than tolerance).
Added optional argument to @sf@chckifthispg and @df@chckifthispg
Bug fixes:
removed unwanted spaces caused by eol character
added check for non-void boxes.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/flowfram.html or they may browse the package directory at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/flowfram/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team