This should within a day be at your local mirror.

Thanks again, Jim Hef{}feron Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: standalone Version number: v0.1 Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/standalone/ Summary description: New class and package 'standalone' to compile TeX pictures standalone or as part of a main document. License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A class and package is provided which allows TeX pictures or other TeX code to be compiled standalone or as part of a main document. Special support for pictures with beamer overlays is also provided.

The package is used in the main document and skips extra preambles in sub-files. The class can be used simplify the preamble in sub-files. By default the 'preview' package is used to only display the code without margins.

The behaviour in standalone mode can be adjusted using a configuration file 'standalone.cfg' be redefining the 'standalone' environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/standalone/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/standalone (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .