An upgrade of the Frankenstein package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way through the mirroring process in the next day or two.

Jim Hefferon ftpmaint@tug.ctan.org

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: Frankenstein Name: Matt Swift Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein Summary description: a collection of LaTeX packages and a Bibtex bibstyle License type: lppl

Announcement text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cleanup release prior to some more significant work (I hope). Please see README for full package descriptions and ChangeLog for changes.

Please note that a preformatted TeX Catalogue database describing these packages is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/swift.db. A web page of description like the TeX Catalogue descriptions is at http://www.shore.net/~swift/latex/.

The most important changes are noted here:

all: LPPL instead of GPL

* achicago.bst: Extensive revisions to documentation. Thanks to Panagiotis Louridas for pointing out a significant bug that would indicate authors with the same last name as the same with a 3-em dash in the bibliography. Major version to 1; reflects non-beta state.

* achicago.sty: Depends on slemph and verbatim too now, but not relsize.

* newclude.sty: Move from unsupported to supported. Extensive documentation revisions. Incorporation of includex package (working yet? includex still available). Revision and extension of hooks mechanisms. Remove group option.

* tag.sto: Add 2d optional argument to include. Revise documentation.

* titles.dtx: Changed: ooktitle -> ook, journaltitle -> journal, musictitle -> music, articletitle -> article, playtitle -> play, crafttitle -> craft. Compatibility easily retained in configuration file. New: species, WrapquotesSN, WrapquotesDN, WrapquotesSK, ospacelist (abstraction of what was hard-coded).

* titles.cfg: New: ewletlongpoem extitswitch

ewletfilm extitswitch ewletessaytitleWrapquotes

ewletchaptertitleWrapquotes.

* moredefs.sty: Many documentation changes. Change implementation of provideboolean and ewboolean to be compatible with ifthen package. Fix prependto@macro g@prependto@macro so they work. Fix check for defined macro in SaveName. Fix SaveName so it works. Fix GobbleO GobbleMO so they work.

* abbrevs.sty: Added emulation of acromake.sty.

* lips.sty: New: BracketedLips, olips, Lips, mla package option.

* compsci.sty: New: file email. Add hyperlatex package option.

* bits.sty: Requires letterhead package -- which I don't think I distribute. Aha, that's why this is unsupported! It may be usable with a dummy letterhead package.

* attrib.sty: Add attribcitations.

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