ctan-ann January 2003

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CTAN package: LaTeXPiX
by Jim Hefferon 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ================================================================ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX Author's name: N.J.H.M. van Beurden Location on CTAN: systems/win32/latexpix Summary description: LaTeX picture editor for Windows License type: pd Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeXPiX is a picture editor for LaTeX and works on all Microsoft Windows versions. LaTeXPiX offers advanced picture drawing, editing and generation beyond the scope of most other available editors. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New CTAN package: iTe
by Jim Hefferon 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and it should make its way to your favorite mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: iTe Author's name: wolfgang kuehn Location on CTAN: support/ite Summary description: the interactive Tex editor License type: gpl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iTe is an easy to use, interactive authoring tool for LATEX and TEX documents. With iTe running inside emacs, it is possible to select arbitrary display fragments such as figures, equations, labels, captions, etc. These fragments can then be freely moved, rotated and scaled. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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New version (3.4) of UK TeX FAQ on CTAN and the Web
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

I have installed a new version of the FAQ. As usual, a small set of new questions/answers has been added, and a number of typos and plain-and-simple bugs have been corrected. In addition, I have addressed a significant problem with the presentation of URLs for directories, on the Web. In the last few months I have learned that some browsers always provide the answer non-existent if you ask a CTAN node for a .tar.gz or a .zip file of a directory. (Tracing reveals packets where the client is asking whether the file exists before attempting to download it; of course the file _doesn't_ exist, and our FTP daemons aren't smart enough to spot this case. None of which explains _why_ these browsers behave like this.) Now, whenever the FAQ used to present a .tar.gz URL for a directory, it also presents a .zip URL, and a URL for browsing (the latter two in parentheses). If all else fails, frustrated users may download a directory one file at a time. I have also made a small improvement to the way searches are conducted. I've been thinking about how to do this job better, but at least now one of the worst excesses of the stupidity of the old version have gone: the search regards space-separated words as distinct. A further advance has come for users of the PDF versions; thanks to the good offices of Heiko Oberdiek, those files now have thumbnails by each question title. In the thumbnail's data, one finds the URL for this question (in my favoured label format), and the question title. As always, I shall be pathetically grateful for help with new answers, or corrections to old answers, in the FAQ -- feel free to mail to faq(a)tex.ac.uk An HTML-only (i.e., no searching) version of the FAQ is available for use by TeX distribution builders; for those who already use it, the new version is in the usual place -- those who don't already use it may contact me for details. Robin Fairbairns UK TeX FAQ maintainer

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CTAN submission -- KOMA-Script
by Reinhard Zierke 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from ctan-upload ----- A submission was uploaded to nova.dante.de:/ftp/incoming/upload-20030129.001/. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: KOMA-Script Name and email: Markus Kohm Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Summary description: KOMA-Script, a versatile LaTeX2e bundle License type: Free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The KOMA-Script team is happy to announce the February '03 Release of the KOMA-Script bundle aka the three days too early release. -------------------------------------------------------- What is KOMA-Script -------------------------------------------------------- KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and packages. It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e classes. KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from the standard classes, but it extends the possibilities in order to provide the user an almost complete working environment. -------------------------------------------------------- Versions of classes and packages at this release: -------------------------------------------------------- scrartcl.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrbook.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrreprt.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlttr2.cls 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlettr.cls 2002/05/24 v2.6e (obsolete) scrtime.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrdate.sty 2002/02/02 v1.1m scrpage2.sty 2002/11/01 v2.1a typearea.sty 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrlfile.sty 2003/01/28 v2.9l scrpage.sty 2001/06/22 v1.3c (obsolete) scraddr.sty 2002/06/02 v1.1b -------------------------------------------------------- What is new in this KOMA-Script release -------------------------------------------------------- This is only a bug-fix-release: - typo-fixes at the guides - index is not longer openright with option openany - missing files at source of english guides added - some fixes behind the curtain (e.g. of scrlttr2) Go discover. -------------------------------------------------------- XML file to be used at The TeX Catalogue: -------------------------------------------------------- See koma-script.xml at the distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the upload. I installed it as suggested replacing the old version in CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: ctan upload: wrapfig.sty 3.5
by Robin Fairbairns 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I've uploaded version 3.5 of wrapfig.sty to ctan/UK. > > Please use it to replace macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty > > New with version 3.5: support for float.sty > > New with version 3.4: setting linewidth in wrapped text. > > As before the license is lppl. i've installed the new version; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Uploaded updated style file
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Rohit Grover writes: > Uploaded to cam.ctan.org > Directory: incoming/newpunk > > Updated style file and test latex file for using Knuth's punk fonts. The > old one (released 1992) doesn't work anymore because it uses obsolete > syntax. This version should probably replace the current punk.sty in the > CTAN tree. i've rearranged the fonts/punk directory: fonts/punk/source contains the original .mf files fonts/punk/latex contains your contribution: punk.sty punktest.tex thanks for the contribtion Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: ragged2e v2.00
by Rainer Schöpf 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 Martin Schröder submitted: > Name of contribution: ragged2e v2.00 > Suggested location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms/ > Summary description: A new improved version of ragged2e > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This version fixes some (hopefully all) bugs and introduces some new features. > The bugs had to do with the handling of spaceskip and xspaceskip; this has been completely redesigned. > The new features are new options for setting the complete document, all footnotes and all parboxes raggedright. The new version also incorporates the raggedr package. Thanks for the update. Following the upload instructions, I replaced the files ragged2e.dtx ragged2e.ins and removed the files ragged2e.asc ragged2e.bug ragged2e.dvi The updated xml entry follows: <?xml version=1.0?> <!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM ../catalogue.dtd> <entry id=ragged2e datestamp=2003/01/28 modifier=martin(a)oneiros.de> <about> <name>ragged2e</name> <caption> Defines Centering, RaggedLeft, and RaggedRight, and corresponding environments. </caption> <author> <name>Martin Schröder</name> <email>martin(a)oneiros.de</email> </author> <license type=lppl/> <version> <number>2.00</number> <released>2003/01/28</released> </version> <xref refid=everysel/> </about> <description> <abstract> A LaTeX package which defines new commands Centering, RaggedLeft, and RaggedRight and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and FlushRight, which set ragged text and are easily configurable to allow hyphenation. </abstract> </description> <distribution> <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/supported/ms</ctan> <texlive>latexextra</texlive> </distribution> </entry> For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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encTeX on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

encTeX is (another) tex extension, written at the change-file level. it provides means of translating input, on the way into tex's mouth. the most recent version allows translation of multibyte sequences, such as utf-8 encoding. i have established a mirror of enctex into ctan at systems/enctex, to aid people's evaluation of the system. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN upload: iagproc
by Jim Hefferon 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

New material has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your local mirror in the next day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ==================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: iagproc Author's name: Martin Vermeer Location on CTAN: latex/contrib/supported/misc Summary description: LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX2e class file for two column IAG Proceedings articles, like for the Banff GGG2000 Symposium or the Thessaloniki IGGC 2002 meeting. Format description: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~sideris/GGG2000/instructions.pdf - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN upgrade: Makor 2
by Jim Hefferon 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should be at your favorite local mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org =============================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: Makor 2 Author's name: Alan Hoenig Location on CTAN: language/hebrew/makor Summary description: Typesetting Hebrew with vowels with Omega License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Use Makor2 to typeset: Hebrew with vowels or liturgical accents; Yiddish; docs prepared using ArabTeX Hebrew conventions; Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia; Old Hebrew; and much, much more; see files README and mkr2man.pdf for additional details and copious examples. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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bug fix version of footmisc on ctan
by Robin Fairbairns 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

i have replaced macros/latex/contrib/supported/footmisc.dtx, to bring the release up to version 5.2 this version fixes two bugs: - that multiple option did not work with perpage option enabled. - an interaction with the color package that caused errors if the para option was enabled. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- memoir class
by Robin Fairbairns 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded memoir.tar.gz to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > Memoir is a configurable class for general fiction, non-fiction > and mathematical books. It encompasses the standard book and report > classes and can simulate the article class as well as a double > spaced typewritten manuscript. > > It provides a variety of predefined page, chapter, and caption > styles and easy ways of creating new ones. There is a reasonably > intuitive way of specifyng page margins, etc., with an option for > printing trimming marks. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, > 14pt or 17pt as the normal font size. > > Changes (2003/01/22) > o Second optional argument to section etc., for page header text > o Number formatting --- cardinals and ordinals, numeric and spelled out > o Better cooperation with natbib, chapterbib, hyperref and nameref packages > o New version (1.3) of mempatch.sty > o New version (1.1) of memhfixc.sty > o New version of the Addendum whew! i've installed the new stuff as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: Upload to CTAN
by Rainer Schoepf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > I´ve uploaded a bugfix release of ShapePatch to CTAN. It is on > the server dante.ctan.org in the directory /incoming/shapepatch I > created. > It should be placed in the directory /graphics/transfig-shape, where the > old version is situated. It had (at least :-) two bugs that are fixed in > this new release. > > The license of transfig was erroneously listed as GPL in your > Catalogue, so I used this the last time. In fact transfig uses the > X/Open Group license, so the license of shapepatch should match that > too. (now listed as BSD in your Catalogue) Thanks for your update, I installed it in graphics/transfig-shapepatch For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: Upload - References v4.0a
by Rainer Schoepf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote: > I have uploaded: References v4.0a, bibliographic software > To: ftp.dante.de > Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references > GNU general public licence > > Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for > authors of scientific manuscripts and for management of > bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS > and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS. REFERENCES supports LaTeX > including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import > bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval > of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names, > date of publication, title of article, book title, > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists > of references can be compiled in any (user-defined) > format required by the publishers of scientific > journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free > software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL > PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF). Thanks for the update, I installed it in support/references For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN Upload - BaKoMa TeX 5.22
by Rainer Schoepf 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Basil K. Malyshev wrote: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de/incoming/bakoma' directory > update for BaKoMa TeX 5.22 (issued 23-Jan-2003). > > Please put the files to 'CTAN:systems/win32/bakoma' directory. > > This version has Patch status and may be freely installed by > holders of NON-UPGRADABLE license for BaKoMa TeX 5.20. > > This version has following bug fixing and refinments: > * Saving settings under accounts with names with international symbols. > * Changed format of date embedded into PDF file (Now use D:20030123....) > * Fixed configuration for BibEdit (It avoids Win98 limitations) > * Refined Outline generation in DVI2HTML (corporating bugs) > * Refined configuration of cyrillic (LH) fonts for TeX4HT. > * Fixed driver for HyperRef package (Extra `}' before egin{equation}). > * Recent Files List was reimplemented via dialog. > > Bye. > Basil K. Malyshev > 23-Jan-2003 Thanks for the update, I installed the files in the nonfree/systems/win32/bakoma hierarchy. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > --------------- About BaKoMa TeX 5.20 ---------------------- > > CONTENTS > * Highlights > * Graphical Capabilities > * Fonts > * User Interface > * PDF Generation Features > * HTML Generation features > * New Features of BaKoMa TeX 5.20 > > For more information about BaKoMa TeX see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/index.html> > > BaKoMa TeX is a complete TeX system for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95 > > HIGHLIGHTS > > * Dynamical Preview allows the user to preview instantly selected region > of the file being edited. > (It is analog of Instant Preview - http://www.activetex.org). > * PostScript enabled TeX system. > ** Generates *PDF* from documents with *PSTricks*, *PSfrag*, etc. > ** Generates HTML (TeX4HT, DVI2HTML), also supports Hevea and TTH. > * Supports using PostScript Type 1 fonts (including MM) *WITHOUT ATM*. > However, using ATM for font rendering is optionally available. > * Complete distribution includes about *1500* TeX Fonts (including EC/TC, LH) > in ATM Compatible PostScript Type 1 font format. > * Font Setup Wizard installs Postscript/TrueType fonts almost in one click > * Consistent graphics and font support for all DVI back-ends. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Supports hyperlink text broken across lines and pages. > * Easy to install and use. > * Much less expensive than other analogues. > > GRAPHICAL CAPABILITIES > > BaKoMa TeX includes an interpreter for *PostScript Level 2*, > which is tested for compatibility with output from popular > software such as: MetaPost, Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Streamline 4.0, > Mathematica 4, MatLab, CorelDraw 10, CorelXARA, HIGZ, PageDraw, > FrameMaker, ImageMagick, etc. > > All DVI back-ends support the same special interface compatible > with well known Rokicki's DVIPS, including processing PostScript > embedded into DVI files (PSTricks, PSfrag, XyPic, etc.). > > The system includes Graphics Import Filters for the following formats: > PostScript, HPGL, DXY, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, MSP, BMP. > > FONTS > > BaKoMa TeX supports the following font formats: > * PostScript Type 1 (including Multiple Masters), > * PostScript Type 3, > * TrueType, > * OpenType, > * TeX PK/VF. > > The system includes about *1500* typefaces in PostScript Type 1 > and Type 3 font format including the following fonts: > * CM (including LaTeX and Logo fonts + vf for T1 with CX > * AMS Fonts (Euler, Math Symbols), > * EC/TC, > * LH (T2A), > * Concrete (Math, ECC), > * Malvern, > * CMCyr + vf for T2A/LCY > * Scripting fonts, CMPica, Punk. > Math Fonts: > * Stmaryrd, Wasy, Rsfs, YHMath, BlackBoard (bbm, doublestroke). > Diagram drawing fonts: > * Lams, Astro Symbols (cmastro, astrosym, moonphase), > * Barcodes (barcodes, wlean, wlc*), Logical (loggates, milstd), > * timing, MusiXTeX, Chess/CChess, Go, Backgammon, Dingbats/NiceFrame. etc. > > Any font type can be used for any output device/format. > This feature is supported by automatic font conversion > between font formats when needed. > This feature enables the rendering of Type 1 fonts *without ATM*. > On the other hand, it enables the use of TrueType/OpenType fonts > for generating PostScript printed even on PostScript Level 1 printers. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use most of free Type 1 fonts > available on CTAN and Trutype fonts coming with MS Windows systems. > > Font Setup Wizard lets you to install most of commercial (and free) > Postscript Type 1 and TrueType fonts in one click. > > USER INTERFACE > > * Dynamical Preview (Instant Preview) of selected part of a document. > It reformats (and preview) selected part of document on the fly, > when you edit it. This feature accelerates tuning paragraphs, > mathematics, pictures, etc. > * Flexible window docking lets you optimize splitting your screen > for using Dynamical Preview efficiently. > * One touch key for TeX + Preview + other customizable postprocessors, > * Quick navigation via document structure, > * DVI Forward/Reverse search (format independent), > * Powerful support for different input encodings, > * Project support, > * Graphics import assistant, > * Assitance for multi-file documents: > context sensitive openning of included text and graphics files, > * Searching for TeX errors using the TeX log file, > * Searching for help for TeX commands in entire document collection, > * Syntax highlighting is configurable for catcodes and command dictionaries, > * Customizable GUI Bars and menus for inserting Math Symbols and other commands, > * Automatic creation of a BB-file for non-PostScript graphics. > * Spell Checker: On-the-spot highlighting of misspelled words, > correction proposals, handling accents and babel shortcuts. > configurable for handling (La)TeX commands. > * BibEdit - editor for LaTeX BIB files is included. > * Syntax Completion is context sensitive and flexible. > * Support for Multi-User systems. > > OUTPUT DEVICES/FORMATS > > * View on Windows Display. > * Print on any printer supported by a MS Windows driver. > * PostScript (really scalable), > * PDF, > * HTML. > > Important feature of BaKoMa TeX is consistent graphics and font support > for all types of output. This means that all font formats mentioned > may be used for every type of output. This also means that all graphical > capabilities mentioned are supported for every type of output. > > PDF GENERATION FEATURES > > * Handling in-line PostScript in DVI files (PSTricks). > * Creating PDF files which share fonts. > Suitable for preparing CD-ROM based document libraries. > * Embedding fonts in CFF requires 2--3 times less space then other font forms. > * Handles HyperTeX (HyperRef) and document outline. > > HTML GENERATION FEATURES > > BaKoMa TeX 5 supports several ways for conversion of (La)TeX > documents into HTML files. > * `TeX|Generate HTML ...' text editor menu command lets you launch > `TeX4HT' convertor with numerous options. > * `File|Generate HTML ...' DVI viewer menu command lets you convert > pages of a DVI file into PNG files wrapped into navigation HTML > pages. This approach is useful for documents with complex graphics, > such as slides. > > In advance, BaKoMa TeX is ready to use `HEVEA' and/or `TTH' convertors. > Launching of these convertors is available via extra TABS of > `TeX|Generate HTML ...' editor command. > > Including graphics is well integreated with BaKoMa TeX graphical engine. > In this reason, you can insert everithing supported by BaKoMa TeX > into generated HTML pages. > > *** NEW FEATURES OF BAKOMA TEX 5.20 in comparison with BAKOMA TEX 5.10 *** > > Font Setup Wizard (`Options|Install TrueType/Postscript fonts ...') > ----------------- > > * supports installation of *Postscript Type 1* > in advance to TrueType/OpenType fonts. > * works faster, because of using dynamic update of ls-R files. > > BibEdit - new application > ------------------------- > > BibEdit is new utility in BaKoMa TeX. It is intended for > browsing and editing BIB files used by BibTeX program. > It is launched for openning BIB files (Windows Explorer) > or from Centaur Text Editor (Insert|Edit Bibliography, Insert|cite).. > Features: > * Edits several BIB files simultaneously, that is very useful > to handle situation when `ibliography' command includes several files. > * Easy to use - Help window provides user with useful hints > for every editing mode; > * Provide user with hints for preparing fields of different types; > * Chroma codidng for fields: `Required', `Optional', and `Ignored'. > * Tells user when one or more `Required' fields are missed. > * Quick insertion of reference on string into the currently edited field; > * Quick insertion of citation into your document. > > User Interface > -------------- > > * Improved `Insert' menu. > + `Complete Word' (Ctrl+Enter) LaTeX Syntax completion command. > Context sensitive, adding/removing words, definable extra code. > + `LaTeX Environment ...' (Alt+Enter) > now it is implemented as dialog (instead of submenu) whicj lets you: > (1) add/remove environments immediately in dialog > (2) modify default arguments for environment. > + `Edit Bibliography ...' Provide simple way to start edit of bibliography: > In case of ibliography command launches BibEdit, > In case of `thebibliography' environment opens file with him. > If no bibliography in you document it helps to create it. > + `cite' (Alt+C) inserts `cite' LaTeX command. > However, at second call (when cite{} is already under cursor) > it launches BibEdit or dialog with list of available bibliography entries. > + `Insert Indexing Stuffs' > lets you prepare document for indexing in one click. > + ` ef' (Ctrl+R) and `pageref' (Ctrl+P) like to cite command, > at second click, show list of labels in current document. > + `Graphics|Graphics File' (inserts `includegraphics') > detects that cursor is already under some `includegraphics' command > and edit it instead of inserting another command. > > DVI Viewer > ---------- > > * Support for `colorlinks' option of HyperRef</i> package. > * `Document Properties|Outline' - more robust refreshing outline. > * `File|Read PDF' and `File|View Postscript' > commands check existing and date of PDF/PS file to suggest user > (re)generate it if one is absent or older then DVI file. > * `File|Edit Source TeX File' command is disabled when TeX > source isn't available for currently opened DVI file. In advance, > it works with non standard file extensions (DTX, DRV, LTX, etc.). > Also, cursor isn't jumped into BOF when file is already opened. > * Fixed Problem with mishandling negative deltas by ExtTextOut under Win98. > * Handling kerning in Readable mode was refined. > > TeX4HT > ------ > > * Copying imported PNG and GIF images into TeX4HT subdirectory > (see texmf/tex/latex/tex4ht/tex4ht.fix). > > For more information about changes see > <ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes5.html> > > ---------- End of BaKoMa TeX Information ----------

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CTAN upload: the covington font material renamed covfonts
by Jim Hefferon 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

The covington font package has been renamed covfonts, to avoid a name clash with an existing package. Sorry about any confusion; thank you to the folks who pointed out my oversight and also to the package author, Scott Pakin, for making the changes. Jim Hefferon ftpmaint(a)tug.ctan.org ========================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: covfonts Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: fonts/covfonts Summary description: Make Apostrophic Laboratories's Covington fonts available to TeX and LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The covfonts package provides all of the font metrics, virtual fonts, font-description files, and font-mapping files needed to use Apostrophic Laboratories's freely downloadable Covington font with TeX and LaTeX. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: new shapepar bundle (version 2.0)
by Robin Fairbairns 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Donald Arseneau writes: > I have uploaded version 2.0 of shapepar to > cambridge_ctan:incoming/shapepar.tar.gz with contents: > shapepar/ > shapepar/Canflagshape.def > shapepar/shapepar.ltx > shapepar/TeXshape.def > shapepar/candleshape.def > shapepar/proshap.py > shapepar/README.shapepar > shapepar/shapepar.sty > > Please unpack this so the new shapepar directory appears in > macros/latex/contrib/supported, and remove the previous > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/shapepar.sty. > > Since shapepar.sty continues to be functional under plain > TeX, please update whatever symbolic link exists from > macros/plain or macros/generic to reflect the new location. > > proshap.py doesn't really belong in the macros tree because > it is a Python script (by Manuel Gutierrez Algaba). Feel free > to relocate it. > > Also uploaded is a revised incoming/shapepar.xml to replace > help/Catalogue/entries/shapepar.xml, but someone with more > experience should check it. > - I probably did not update all the information properly, > - I don't know which distributions carry shapepar.sty > > Abstract: > The shapepar macro (or `command') is used to typeset paragraphs of > a specified shape, where the total size is adjusted automatically so > that the entire shape is filled with text, and the shape may include > separate pieces and holes. These macros work for both LaTeX and > plain TeX. > > New with version 2.0: > o cutout for fitting shape in surrounding text > o Fixed-size shapes > o Considerable re-write > o Bug fix for disjoint parts > o Allow back-spacing between disjoint parts > o Typeset manual > o More pre-defined shapes i've installed the files as requested, and deleted the old version. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: statex v1.2 uploaded to ftp.ctan.org
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Rodney Sparapani writes: > I've just uploaded statex v1.2 to ftp.ctan.org/incoming > This is a replacement for v1.1 which currently resides in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/ > The license is LPPL v.1.2+ > > statex v1.2 corrects some bugs and adds lots of new features: > 1) many positioning problems have been resolved > 2) more statistics commands and probability mass/density functions > 3) new commands for creating documentation for the TI-83 calculator > 4) all commands are now short > 5) updated examples at the end of the style file by the wonders of the dns, the upload appeared in cambridge. sorry this has been delayed for a day or so, but i've now installed the package as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocbibind package
by Robin Fairbairns 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocbibind.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/tocbibind > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocbibind package can be used to add the ToC and/or > bibliography and/or the index, etc., to the Table of Contents > listing. > > Changes in version 1.52 (2002/01/22) > o Improved harmony with the chapterbib and natbib packages. i've installed the new version as requested. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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Re: CTAN upload notification: LaTeX2PDF
by Rainer Schöpf 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

A submission was uploaded to CTAN. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: > Name of contribution: LaTeX2PDF > Name and email: Sascha Beuermann > Suggested location on CTAN: tex-archive/info/german/ > Summary description: Erstellung von PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX > License type: Free > > Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erstellung von leistungsfähigen PDF-Dokumenten mit LaTeX und den > Paketen hyperref sowie thumbpdf, Version 2.10 vom 15. Januar 2002 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (Howto create PDF document with LaTeX and hyperref/thumbpdf) Thanks for the upload, I installed the file as info/german/LaTeX2PDF.pdf For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Re: CTAN submission --- tocloft package
by Robin Fairbairns 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded tocloft.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to > replace the current macros/latex/conrib/supported/tocloft. > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > From the README: > > The tocloft package provides control over the typography of the > able of Contents, List of Figures, and List of Tables. You can also > define your own kinds of `List of ...'. > > Changes in version 2.3b (2003/01/20) > o Again made Part commands work as advertised (with the koma classes) i've installed the files as requested; thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN package upgrade: newlfm
by Jim Hefferon 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

A package upgrade has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its way to your favorite mirror in a day or two. Thanks for the upload, Jim ====================================================================== The following information was provided by our fellow contributor. Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul Thompson Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/newlfm Summary description: newlfm - new letter fax memo License type: lppl Announcement text given by the contribution's author: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.0 of newlfm is announced. This is a pretty major revision of newlfm. It corrects an inconsistency with geometry (by removing dependence on geometry). It incorporates several missing components from the page. Most importantly, Version 6.0 incorporates a keyed-value approach to parameter setting. Rather than setting all parameters using the options section of the documentclass command, the keyed-value approach allows the parameters to be set using several keyed-value parameters (i.e., LetterP{stdletter,nofromaddr} ). These allow the entire composition of the letter (dimensions, etc.) to be stored and used as callable values from the letter database file. - - ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CTAN submission -- preview-latex-0.7.8
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from David Kastrup ----- I have uploaded preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz and preview-0.7.8.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. Its license is the GPL. I would recommend installing it in the following way: Put the packed archive preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz under support/preview-latex/ and unpack the README from it to support/preview-latex/README Create a symbolic link from support/preview-latex/preview-latex.tar.gz to preview-latex-0.7.8.tar.gz so that people can always get the newest version under this name. Unpack preview-0.7.8.tar.gz in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ It contains just README-preview, preview.dtx and preview.ins. The reason is that the preview.dtx file can also be used as a standalone LaTeX style for extracting selected elements from a LaTeX source into separate pages of a DVI file. Previous versions of preview-latex can be deleted. Here are the release notes: Release notes for version 0.7.8 of the preview-latex package: preview-latex dresses up your LaTeX source by pasting judiciously selected chunks (such as single formulas) chopped from unwieldy preview pages right over their source in the Emacs/XEmacs buffer. You get to have your eye candy and edit it, too. Since only the display of the text is affected, you can safely test-drive on important documents right away. Quitting its use can be done anytime you'd want to, which you won't. The employed style file preview.sty is independently useful for extraction of selected text elements as images. The package is released under the GNU Public License (GPL). At the current point of time, at least GNU Emacs-21.1 under the X window system, AUC TeX (11.14 or later recommended, see below), a working LaTeX installation and GhostScript are required. This version also supports XEmacs-21, best in version 21.4.9 or later, and the various Windows ports of XEmacs. You may also use recent CVS versions of Windows GNU Emacs. Release 0.7.8 has gained a few more commands, its menu has been reorganized, the fleqn document class option from LaTeX is fully supported, preview.sty has gained a much more powerful interface for configuring previews and a few more items are previewed by default or more correctly. Various bugs have been fixed and the installation process does a better job of getting things to work particularly for Windows users, with better documentation, too. Whitespace changes will not invalidate previews as they did before. This means that outline-minor-mode is usable in XEmacs now. The README file provides adequate information for firing up preinstalled distributions, and pointers how to provide feedback. The INSTALL file contains a special section with advice for package providers. There is also a file INSTALL.windows detailing instructions for users of that operating system. The home page is <URL:http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net>, the SourceForge project page that among others offers anonymous CVS access is located at <URL:http://sourceforge.net/projects/preview-latex>. If you can spare the time, you can also comment on or rate this project at <URL:http://freshmeat.net/projects/preview-latex>. Additional files can be found at <URL:http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex>: * If you don't have texinfo 4.0 or later installed, prebuilt documentation files can be found there. * Tarballs of preview-latex for all users, alternatively RPMs for RedHat Linux. For the binary RPMs, you will need the preview-latex-common RPM as well as the Emacs-flavor specific RPM. * AUC TeX is now located at <URL:http://www.nongnu.org/auctex>. The download area should also provide you with RPMs if you are using RedHat Linux. The RPMs require a few packages that should be readily available in current distributions. RedHat 7.3 contains Emacs-21.2 and GhostScript-6.52 which are about the minimum versions to be recommended. Later releases should work fine. XEmacs in current distributions will still be affected with a serious display bug, see the PROBLEMS file or the respective manual section. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version as suggested in CTAN:/tex-archive/support/preview-latex/ and CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/preview/ replacing the old versions. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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CTAN submission -- new font metrics for LucidaBright
by Reinhard Zierke 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt ----- I have uploaded the following files to the /incoming directory at dante.ctan.org: readme.lucida lucida.zip makefile This is an updated set of font metrics, virtual fonts, FD and font map files for Y&Y's commercial font family LucidaBright. A makefile is provided to help with renaming of the original font files so standard Berry-style names. (This is optional.) The upload occurs in accordance with Blenda Horn (Y&Y) and Sebastian Rahtz (who made the existing Lucida font metrics). Please remove the following existing CTAN directories: fonts/metrics/bh/lubright fonts/metrics/bh/lucidfax fonts/metrics/bh/lucsans fonts/metrics/bh/lumath and the contents of the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida. Then move my files to the directory fonts/metrics/bh/lucida. (The stuff is no longer spread over 5 different directories). Please, do not unpack lucida.zip. This release features a number of changes over the previous distribution: * The file set includes also the metrics for LY1 encoded text fonts. These are the original files from Y&Y, only renamed to Karl-Berry-style names. The related .fd files were changed appropriately. Thus, LY1 can be used easily beside T1/TS1. * The LY1 and TS1 encodings make the Euro symbol ( exteuro) accessible, which is present in the current release of the Lucida fonts. * With T1/TS1 encoding, the same set of font series and shapes is supported as with Y&Y's original distribution. The previous CTAN distribution, in contrast, included a number of additional series/shapes, which were based on artificially compressed, expanded or slanted fonts and faked smallcaps. Notice that these were never documented. * The obsolete OT1 font encoding is no longer supported with the Lucida fonts. * T1 encoded smallcaps fonts (hlhrc8t, hlhbc8t) include normal digits now, as expected. Oldstyle digits are still available in the TS1 encoding. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks for the update. I installed it as suggested replacing everything in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/ with the new version in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/ Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team

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Re: Upload
by Rainer Schöpf 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Volker Kiefel wrote: > I have uploaded: References v4.0, Bibliographic software > To: ftp.dante.de > Files should go to: /tex-archive/support/references > GNU general public licence - Latex Project > > Summary: > > REFERENCES v4.0 is bibliographic software for authors > of scientific manuscripts and for management of > bibliographic data on ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS, BOOKS > and CHAPTERS IN BOOKS. REFERENCES supports LaTeX > including BibTeX. REFERENCES is able to import > bibliographic records in the MEDLINE format. Retrieval > of references by keywords, authors' or editors' names, > date of publication, title of article, book title, > journal name or combinations thereof is possible. Lists > of references can be compiled in any (user-defined) > format required by the publishers of scientific > journals. Source code is included: REFERENCES is free > software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL > PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF). Thanks for the update, I installed the new version in support/references For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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