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CTAN update: pkfix-helper
by CTAN Announcements 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

the cambridge upload daemon's moving finger wrote: > ====================================================================== > > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: pkfix-helper > Author's name: Scott Pakin > Location on CTAN: support/pkfix-helper > Summary description: Make PostScript files produced by older dvips versions accessible to pkfix > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > pkfix is a useful utility for replacing resolution-dependent bitmapped > fonts in a dvips-produced PostScript file with the corresponding > resolution-independent vector fonts. Unfortunately, pkfix needs to > parse certain PostScript comments that appear only in files produced > by dvips versions later than 5.58 (ca. 1996); it fails to work on > PostScript files produced by older versions of dvips. > > pkfix-helper is a program that attempts to insert newer-dvips comments > into an older-dvips PostScript file, thereby making the file suitable > for processing by pkfix. pkfix-helper can sometimes process documents > fully autonomously but does require the user to verify and, if needed, > correct its decisions. > > CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1: When producing font samples (TeX and > PostScript), pkfix-helper now knows how to break pages -- useful for > documents containing a large number of fonts. Thanks to RogÃ©rio Brito > for suggesting this feature. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pkfix-helper.html (it will change minutely overnight tonight.) > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pkfix-helper i have installed the update, and updated the catalogue repository. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: sseq
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: sseq Author's name: Tilman Bauer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/sseq Summary description: drawing spectral sequence charts License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update of the sseq package for drawing spectral sequence charts to version 2.0. It now uses pgf graphics instead of xypic, resulting in nicer output and less inexplicable behavior. Many new options and features; consult the manual. Compatible to previous versions 1.0x ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sseq . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/sseq (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 .

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CTAN Update: accfonts
by CTAN Announcements 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 John Smith submitted an update to the accfonts package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/utilities/accfonts Summary description: Utilities to derive new fonts from existing ones License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The accfonts package contains three utilities to permit easy manipulation of fonts, in particular the creation of unusual accented characters. Mkt1font works on Adobe Type 1 fonts, vpl2vpl works on TeX virtual fonts and vpl2ovp transforms a TeX font to an Omega one. All three programs read in a font (either the font itself or a property list), together with a simple definition file containing lines such as ‘128 z acute’; they then write out a new version of the font with the requested new characters in the numerical slots specified. Great care is taken over the positioning of accents, and over the provision of kerning information for new characters; mkt1font also generates suitable “hints” to enhance quality at small sizes or poor resolutions. The programs are written in Perl. See the file CHANGES for information about this update. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/accfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=accfonts (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: IEEEconf
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: IEEEconf Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf Summary description: Class file for IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEEconf class implements the formatting dictated by the IEEE Computer Society Press for conference proceedings (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11.pdf). IEEEconf.cls replaces latex8.sty and is compatible with any BibTeX style, not just latex8.bst. The goal was to produce a more faithful implementation of the formatting rules and to do so with cleaner LaTeX code than that provided by the latex8.* files. Version 1.4 of IEEEconf.cls includes a few changes to better match the IEEE Computer Society Press's latest formatting requirements, a latex8 class option that retains latex8.sty's incorrect but more space-efficient title formatting, and support for the onecolumn class option in case an author wants to use the multicolumn package along with the IEEEconf class. Thanks to Oliver Kopp for proposing latex8 and onecolumn support and for helping with testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEconf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ieeeconf (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 .

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CTAN update: Frontespizio
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Frontespizio Author's name: Enrico Gregorio Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib Summary description: This package provides an environment to typeset a frontispiece to theses in Italian style License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The frontespizio package lets you typeset a frontispiece (suitable for Italian university style) independently of the page layout of the main document. This is version 1.1 of the package; the only change from version 1.0 is the addition of the option `swapnames', to exchange the position of candidate and advisor names. A bug with option `onlyinclude' has been corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/frontespizio (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 .

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CTAN update: dozenal
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.or and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: dozenal Author's name: Donald P. Goodman Location on CTAN: /fonts/dozenal Summary description: Typeset documents using base twelve numbering (also called dozenal). License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package supports typesetting documents whose counters are represented in base twelve, also called “dozenal”. It includes a macro by David Kastrup for converting positive whole numbers to dozenal from decimal (base ten) representation. The package also also includes a few other macros and redefines all the standard counters to produce dozenal output. Bugs in the original redefinition of these standards counters have been resolved. Fonts, in Roman, italic, slanted, and boldface versions, provide ten and eleven (the Pitman characters preferred by the Dozenal Society of Great Britain). The fonts were designed to blend well with the Computer Modern fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/dozenal . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/dozenal (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 .

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CTAN update: jeopardy
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: jeopardy.sty - fixed example with babel/pdfscreen issue Author's name: Robert Marik Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ Summary description: Fix for two of the examples - babel is not compatible with pdfscreen License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This update fixes problem reported on comp.text.tex in January. The package pdfscreen (I use 1.5) is not compatible with babel and it has to be modified slightly to work well (there are problems with catcode of @ when creating table of contents in panel). I've removed babel from example files written in English and these files (game2.tex, game2a.tex) should compile fine now. For two remaining czech demo files (game3.tex, jeopardy-CZ.tex) you still need the fixed pdfscreen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jeopardy/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/jeopardy (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 .

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm 0.7.2
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts DVI files to SVG. The latest release introduces a caching mechanism for vectorized bitmap fonts. The slowest part during a DVI to SVG conversion using dvisvgm is the call of Metafont and the following vectorization of its bitmap output. To increase the conversion speed in this area, dvisvgm now keeps information about the vectorized glyphs in cache files for future usage. This avoids multiple Metafont calls for the same fonts as well as repeated vectorizations of the same glyphs. To reduce the length of font path description a bit, dvisvgm now generates SVG shorthand path commands if possible. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New in v1.4: - new annotation type: PDF sideline, line, polyline, polygon, square and circle annotation -> pdfsidelinecomment, pdflinecomment (type=line|polyline|polygon), pdfsquarecomment, pdfcirclecomment - new options: font, fontsize, fontcolor, borderstyle, dashstyle, bse, bsei, line, type, lineend, linebegin, icolor, caption, captionhoffset, captionvoffset ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (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 . ___________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: silence
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: silence Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Selective filtering of error messages and warnings. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: * LaTeX Font Warnings can now be filtered out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/silence . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/silence (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 .

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CTAN Update: todonotes
by CTAN Announcements 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Henrik Skov Midtiby submitted an update to the todonotes package. The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. The package takes several options to enable customization/finetuning of the visual appearance. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/todonotes Summary description: The package lets the user mark things to do later, in a simple and and visually appealing way. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Added a use case for linking to the list of todos, idea from Andreas Plank. Introduced a package option for listening to the draft option given to the document class. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/todonotes . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=todonotes (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pst-sigsys
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-sigsys Author's name: Farshid Delgosha Location on CTAN: / Summary description: An update to the pst-sigsys package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pst-sigsys is a collection of useful macros for disciplines related to signal processing. It defines macros for plotting a sequence of numbers, drawing the pole-zero diagram of a system, shading the region of convergence, creating an adder or a multiplier node, placing a framed node at a given coordinate, creating an up-sampler or a down-sampler node, and connecting a list of nodes using any node-connecting macro. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-sigsys . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-sigsys (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 .

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CTAN update: libris
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

This package has be updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: libris Author's name: Clea F. Rees Location on CTAN: /fonts/libris Summary description: LibrisADF License type: other-free Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Includes updated OTF and TTF fonts. Note that the type 1 fonts, which are used by the LaTeX package, and the corresponding support files are unchanged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/libris . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/libris (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: The CodeDoc class
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

This package is new on tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The CodeDoc class Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/codedoc Summary description: Produce LaTeX code and documentation in a single file with ordinary LaTeX syntax. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The CodeDoc class is an alternative to DocStrip (and others) to produce LaTeX code along with its documentation without departing from LaTeX's ordinary syntax. The documentation is prepared like any other LaTeX document and the code to be commented verbatim is simply delimited by an environment. When an option is turned on in the class options, this code is written to the desired file(s). The class also includes fully customizable verbatim environments which provide the author with separate commands to typeset the material and/or to execute it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/codedoc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/codedoc (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 .

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CTAN update: biblatex-dw
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-dw Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2h - BUGFIX: The 'idem' functionality is now also aware of page breaks. If the citation is the first on a page (or double page in twoside mode), the 'idem' is suppressed. If you don't want this behaviour, you can set the option 'pagetracker=false'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-dw (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 .

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CTAN Update: calctab
by CTAN Announcements 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Roberto Giacomelli submitted an update of the calctab package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/calctab Summary description: A language for numeric tables License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- calctab package - A language for numeric tables version 0.6 update - 2009/03/28 The calctab package helps the user to typeset a kind of economic table such as invoices, expense notes and liquidation, or other tabular material with a values columns. The code computes sum and percentage with floating point numeric method (with the fltpoint package by Eckhart Guthoehrlein) and builds the render table task. Economics items may be are independent values or not like sums and percentage on previous values. The language must be expressive concerning together data and its relationships. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/calctab/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=calctab (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: rotating
by CTAN Announcements 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

juergen spitzmueller found a bug in sebastian rahtz's rotating package, which i now maintain. i have now mended the bug (which i introduced), and i have installed a new version of the package on ctan (note that a file rotating.tds.zip also exists, for the convenience of those who maintain their own systems). users may visit the catalogue entry for the package at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/rotating.html or browse the package directory on the archive at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/ i have updated the catalogue entry in the repository, and the link above will be updated overnight, but is unlikely to deceive in any important way before then. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: svn-multi
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at your local mirror within a day. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ Summary description: Update to version 2.1 - Automatic extraction of keyword values from Subversion working directory License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This version adds the possibility to extract the needed version control keyword values of LaTeX or external files directly from the Subversion working directory. This feature avoids the need for an external script to generate the keyword definitions for external files (a feature introduced by v2.0) and can also be used to make id macro completely redundant. This feature must be explicitly enabled using the 'autokw' (Auto-Keywords) option. It only works with valid Subversion working directories from Subversion v1.4 or newer but not with exported or downloaded files. Technical Informations: A TeX parser for the '.svn/entries' file which is located in every Subversion working copy/directory is added. The working copy format versions 8, i.e. Subversion v1.4, or higher should be supported. The implementation was tested with Subversion 1.5.1 under Ubuntu 8.10. Users which encounter parsing errors or wrong results should not hesitate to send bugreports with information about the used Subversion version and platform to the author. Bugfixes: The version 2.0 released earlier this week erroneously changed the document date (e.g. oday) to the package release date. This has been fixed in this version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-multi (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 .

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CTAN update: PerlTeX
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: PerlTeX Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/perltex Summary description: Define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PerlTeX is a combination Perl script (perltex.pl) and LaTeX2e style file (perltex.sty) that, together, give the user the ability to define LaTeX macros in terms of Perl code. Once defined, a Perl macro becomes indistinguishable from any other LaTeX macro. PerlTeX thereby combines LaTeX's typesetting power with Perl's programmability. Version 1.8 of PerlTeX adds support for creating documents that can build either with or without PerlTeX. Specifically, the new optional package option tells PerlTeX not to issue an error message if Perl is inaccessible, and the new ifperl macro checks if Perl is accessible, thereby letting the author define fallback macros/environments if it's not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/perltex (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 .

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CTAN update: datatool
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should with in a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: datatool Author's name: Nicola Talbot Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/datatool Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v2.01: * fixed bug that ignores descending sort option ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/datatool . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/datatool (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 .

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CTAN update: exercise
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: exercise Author's name: Paul Pichaureau Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exercise Summary description: Typeset exercises, problems, etc. and their answers License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package helps to typeset exercises or list of exercises within any document. Exercises, questions, sub-questions are automatically numbered. It is possible to put answers in the same document, and display them immediatly, later in the document or not at all. The layout of exercise is fully customisable. It is then possible to typeset long problems, short exercises, questionnaires, etc. Usage of the babel package is detected, but not fully supported by now (only english, spanish and french are implemented). New in v1.3 : Spanish support added List of exercices support Bug corrected ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exercise . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/exercise (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 .

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CTAN update: The hypdvips package
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: The hypdvips package Author's name: Raimund Niedrist Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips Summary description: Hyperref extensions for use with dvips License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- v1.06 - new package option `nlwarning': allows to suppress warnings concerning nested links (thanks to Marco Daniel for the suggestion) - fixes duplicate warnings about nested links when option `evenboxes' is disabled ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hypdvips . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/hypdvips (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 .

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CTAN update: newlfm
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ..................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: newlfm Author's name: Paul A. Thompson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/newlfm Summary description: Letter fax memo License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bug fix for newlfm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/newlfm (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 .

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tug.ctan.org upload: import.sty
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: import.sty Author's name: Donald Arseneau Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/misc Summary description: import.sty revision. import is like change-directory+input License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated import.sty after a long time, multiple skipped versions, but few changes: spurious space removed, alternative commands (sub)inputfrom, import itself provided but not redefined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/import (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: rcs-multi
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day make its way through the mirroring system. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: rcs-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/rcs-multi Summary description: RCS keywords in multi-file LaTeX documents License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package lets you typeset keywords of the version control systems RCS or CVS inside your LaTeX files anywhere you like. Unlike the otherwise similar package rcs the use of multiple files for one LaTeX document is well supported. This package is based on 'svn-multi' and got modified to support RCS instead of Subversion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rcs-multi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/rcs-multi (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 .

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CTAN update: svn-multi
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: svn-multi Author's name: Martin Scharrer Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Update to Version 2.0 License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The svn-multi package got updated and now includes a good amount of new fancy features: Keyword/File groups: Several files (actually their keywords) can be grouped together and the latest revision information of each group can be typeset anywhere in the document. Support for External Files: External files can be declared inside the document and their keywords can be included using the provided Perl script svn-multi.pl. This files count as part of the current file and group. Table of Revisions: A table of revisions can be produced and included which holds the revision information of the complete document, the declared groups and all files. Automatic Declaration of Images as External Files: To not have the trouble of declaring all included images manually as external files an feature is provided to handle them automatically. Currently the 'graphics' (includes 'graphicx') and the 'pgf' package is supported. Automatic Declaration of all Files as Subgroups: All input files can be automatically declared as subgroups (in addition to normal groups) to allow the access of their revision information anywhere in the document. New Style of the Package Manual: The package manual style got redesigned and hyperlinks between the macro description and implementation were added. Additional information for the implementation were provided. All this features can be enabled using package options (some depend on each other) to minimize memory usage. This package can also be downloaded from its new project website: http://latex.scharrer-online.de/ Feel free to report bugs and request new features using the ticket system at http://latex.scharrer-online.de/newticket . I would be very happy to read some comments about the new features. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/svn-multi . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/svn-multi (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 .

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CTAN update: bib2ml
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bib2ml Author's name: Stéphane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Minor bug fixes License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enlarge the scope of the supported syntax for BibTeX entry keys. Add warning messages to detect missing files during installation. Replace 'tetex' package suggestions by 'texlive' packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bib2ml (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 .

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CTAN Update: xelibertine
by CTAN Announcements 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 Michael Niedermair submitted an update to the xelibertine package. Location on CTAN: /macros/xetex/latex/xelibertine Summary description: new version of xelibertine License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - new package version for the new font version LinLibertinen 4.4.1 and Biolinum 0.4.1 - fix problem with hyphenchar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/xetex/latex/xelibertine . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=xelibertine (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 . _______________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: GeoTeX
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 22 Mar '09

22 Mar '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and will within a day be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: GeoTeX Author's name: Levan Shoshiashvili Location on CTAN: /language/georgian Summary description: package adds georgian language support to TeX/LaTeX License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GeoTeX georgian language support for TeX/LaTeX. package is in beta stage. text input-- utf-8. Font encodings: proposed T8M and T8K agree with latex T standard. Problems and ToDo: 1. In tt fonts some glyphs are missing. 2. TextUppercase , TexTLowercase don't work 3. there are not hyphenation patterns 4. No cmap file. so search in pdf document generated with pdf latex not possible. 5. Documentation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/georgian . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/georgian (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 .

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CTAN update: biblatex-dw
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: biblatex-dw Author's name: Dominik Wassenhoven Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblatex-dw/ Summary description: Humanities styles for biblatex License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 1.2g - Option 'journalnumber' replaces 'journumafteryear'. The option was enhanced and can now take the values 'standard', 'afteryear' and 'date'. The value 'standard' is the same as the old journumafteryear=false, 'afteryear' is the same as the old journumafteryear=true. The new value 'date' assures that the date is printed, even if the field issue is given (this is not the case in the standard styles). Additionally, 'journalnumber=date' prints the number before the date, if the date (at least year and month) is given, but it prints the number after the year, if only the year is given (i.e. if the date is not further specified). See the documentation for details. The default is 'journalnumber=standard'. - Improved german-dw.lbx. - Adjusted the documentation for screen reading. A printer friendly version can still be compiled from the source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/biblate… . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-dw (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: tabularcalc
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

This package is new at tug.ctan.org and will within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tabularcalc Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tabularcalc Summary description: Calculate formulas in a tabular License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tabularcalc v0.1 ------------------ Given a list of numbers and one (or more) formulas, this package allows with an easy syntax to build a table of values, i.e a tabular in which the first row contains the list of numbers, and the other rows contain the calculated values of the formulas for each number of the list. The table can be build either horizontally or vertically and is fully customizable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabularcalc . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tabularcalc (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: fragmaster
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

This package has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: fragmaster Author's name: Tilman Vogel Location on CTAN: /support/fragmaster Summary description: Using psfrag with pdflatex: Produces PDF graphics from EPS files with psfrag substitutions applied License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fragmaster.pl is a solution for using psfrag with pdflatex: It produces PDF and EPS files with the substitutions included from source EPS files and psfrag substitution definition files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/fragmaster . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fragmaster (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: LaTeX cheat sheet
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. Name: LaTeX Cheat Sheet Author: Winston Chang Caption: Single-sheet reference for LaTeX Description: This is a latex reference sheet for writing scientific papers. Unlike many reference sheets available on the internet, it does not focus on mathematics, although some math symbols are listed. License: LPPL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latexcheat . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexcheat (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: TeXShop
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Richard Koch's TeXShop package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: TeXShop 2.26 Author's name: Richard Koch Location on CTAN: /support/texshop Summary description: A TeX Front End for Mac OS X License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXShop is a front end for TeX on Mac OS X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/texshop . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/texshop (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 .

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Rotating package v2.16
by Robin Fairbairns 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

i've just (belatedly) installed a revised version of rotating, which uses colour boxes where appropriate. (this bug was reported last year, but i thought i needed to do other work on the package and delayed installation. i have now given up on the other stuff.) i have updated the catalogue repository, a bit (though the changes won't appear on the web until some time tonight). users may view the current state of the web catalogue entry (at any time), at: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/rotating.html or browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: kpfonts
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: kpfonts Author's name: Caignaert Christophe Location on CTAN: /fonts/kpfonts Summary description: A complete set of fonts for text and mathematics. License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kpfonts is a very full set of fonts for typesetting text and math. It includes real small caps, all current math symbols (TeX, AMS and more), in normal and bold version. The kepler's project is to provide a very large set of options to customize your typesetting. This 3.0 release gets: - a new option 'widermath' with a clear object. - new kerning, mainly uppercase-lowercase of text fonts. *** This new kerning can alter your typesetting *** - new math accents as widearc or widering... - better position of subscript and superscript in math alphabets. *** This new position can alter your typesetting *** Read the .pdf doc file available in english and in french! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/kpfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/kpfonts (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 .

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CTAN update: bib2ml
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ....................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: bib2ml Author's name: Stephane GALLAND Location on CTAN: / Summary description: Major bug fixes License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add more support for locale characters. Provide a new sorting algorithm which takes into account the accentuated characters. Running exception on Ubuntu operating systems was fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bib2ml . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/bib2ml (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: xstring
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ........................................................................ The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: xstring Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring Summary description: String (token list) manipulation License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- package xstring update version v1.5b 2009/03/13 =========== What's new? =========== * bugfixes: under the oexpandarg mode (strings are not expanded with edef), test commands (if, ifx, ifcat, etc) are now allowed in strings, with or without their fi or else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (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 .

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CTAN update: mcaption v3.0
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: mcaption v3.0 Author's name: Stephan Hennig Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mcaption/ Summary description: Put captions into the outer document margin. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides a margincap environment that puts captions into the outer document margin. This is an incompatible update to the mcaption package! Changes: --------------- v3.0 2009/03/13 --------------- New: * Obey caption and label commands inside margincap (at last!). * Macro margincapalign is deprecated (no longer necessary for tabular declarations). * New compatibility option `v2.2'. Incompatible changes: * Environment margincap has no arguments. A compatibility option exists, that restores the old syntax with caption arguments. * The mcaption package requires package changepage to be installed (instead of chngpage). * Complete revision of the vertical alignment mechanism. Paragraph-breaking might be affected (hopefully only to the better). Fixed: * In one-sided documents chngpage/changepage's even/odd page detection was subtly broken by the mcaption package. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mcaption/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/mcaption (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 .

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CTAN Update: epspdf and epspdf-extra
by CTAN Announcements 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Siep Kroonenberg submitted updates to the epspdf and epspdf-extra packages. Location on CTAN: /support/epspdf and support/epspdf-extra Summary description: Converter for PostScript, EPS and PDF with optional GUI License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- epspdf: Documentation: added section on bitmaps epspdf-extra: Windows setup program: added missing Tcl/Tk licenses Mac: epspdf.app add-on replaced with epspdftk.app which physically includes epspdftk itself. Documentation: added section on bitmaps ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdf (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: endheads 1.52
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: endheads 1.52 Author's name: John Burt Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ Summary description: Running headers of the from Notes to pp. xx--yy for endnotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Endheads can now handle cases in which there are endnotes from frontmatter sections, where the page numbers are in roman numerals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/endheads/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/endheads (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 .

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CTAN Update: pdfcomment
by CTAN Announcements 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For a long time pdflatex has offered the command pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. New in v1.3: - new annotation type: PDF text markup annotation (known from the comment function of Adobe Reader) -> pdfmarkupcomment - new option: markup (Highlight,Underline,Squiggly,StrikeOut) - Bugfix: avatar and style system wrong key families (copy and paste) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: TeXshade v1.19
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 Eric Beitz submitted an update to the texshade package. TeXshade is an alignment shading software completely written in TeX/LaTeX which can process multiple sequence alignments in the .MSF and the .ALN file format. It provides in addition to common shading algorithms special shading modes featuring functional aspects, e.g. charge or hydropathy, and a plenitude of commands for handling shading colours, text styles, labels, legends and even allows the user to define completely new shading modes. TeXshade combines highest flexibility and the habitual TeX output quality—with reasonable time expenditure. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This latest update of TeXshade provides a function that I wanted to implement for a long time: one can now display not only a continuous sequence stretch but select residues individually to eliminate uninteresting positions. Selection can be either manually or based on the 3D coordinates of a PDB structure file. This way, residues within a given distance to a point, along a line, or above and below a plane can be shown or specially labeled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/texshade/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=texshade (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: dvisvgm 0.7.1
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Author's email: martin.gieseking(a)uos.de Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: updated version of dvisvgm 0.7.1 License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command-line utility that converts dvi files to SVG. The latest release 0.7.1 provides the new option --no-fonts which replaces SVG font elements by paths and thereby enables applications without SVG font support to render dvisvgm's output properly. Moreover, new handlers for emTeX, tpic and background color specials have been added. It's now also possible to embed raw SVG snippets using dvisvgm's own tiny set of specials. For further information including a list of recent changes and pre-compiled binaries for Windows/MiKTeX see the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (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 . _________________________________________________________- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.45 - Insertion of Symbols from Windows Fonts, BibLaTeX Compatibility.
by CTAN Announcements 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 Basil K. Malyshev submitted an update to the bakoma package. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma > > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 8.45 are: > > * Dialog to insert symbols from Windows fonts. > * Compatibility with BibLaTeX. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> > > > -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.45 ------------------ > > BaKoMa TeX 8.45 supports two coexisting IDE: > 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Classical IDE. > They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use > depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document. > > About BaKoMa TeX Word. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor. > > The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts: > > 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor. > It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed. > It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer. > 2) It is True LaTeX Editor. > It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure. > It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document. > > BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and > consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related > with import graphics, font support, and document export. > > It supports processors: > (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX. > Other processors such as Omega may be added in future. > > It imports: > EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX, > MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY. > It supports fonts: > OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM), > PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF. > It exports: > DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT). > > It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS > compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as: > PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy, > PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc. > > Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is > final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing. > > Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface > (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.) > is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'. > > TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables. > > TeXWord is transparent for cooperation. > TeXWord don't use additional macro packages. > It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up > in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation. > In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents. > So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use > powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work. > > Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as > good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers. > > More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html> > > Some screenshots are available at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/screenshots.php> > > Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at: > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/> > > Most important improvements in BaKoMa TeX 8.45 are: > > * Dialog to insert symbols from Windows fonts. > * Compatibility with BibLaTeX. > > More details about changes and another bug fixing see at: > <http://www.bakoma-tex.com/menu/changes.php> or > <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html> Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: gbrief Creator
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will in the next day work its way through the mirroring system. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................. The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: gbrief Creator Author's name: Carsten Schinke Location on CTAN: /support/gbrief-creator Summary description: Windows-Frontend (german) for the g-brief package by Michael Lenzen License type: nosource Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- g-brief Creator is a small Windows frontend for the g-brief package. Usage is free for everyone. Program and documentation language is german. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/gbrief-creator . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/gbrief-creator (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 .

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CTAN update: tablor
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: tablor Author's name: Guillaume Connan Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tablor Summary description: Create tables of signs and of variations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New version 4.04 : new environment TVIex with roots of equations f(x)=a. Bugs in TVI and TVIapp fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tablor . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tablor (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 .

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CTAN update: Stellenbosch thesis and other utilities - 08
by CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org) 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should in the next day work its way through the mirroring system. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College .................................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: Stellenbosch thesis and other utilities - 08 Author's name: Danie Els Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch Summary description: Typesetting dissertations, theses and reports of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The usthesis class/style files are provided to typeset reports, theses and dissertations that conform to the requirements of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch. The class file usthesis.cls is based on the standard LaTeX book class, while usthesis.sty is a style file to be loaded on top of the very powerful memoir class. Both options give identical output, but the benefit of the using memoir is that it has many additional command and environments for formatting and processing of a document. Usthesis is primarily concerned with the formatting of the front matter such as the title page, abstract, etc. and a decent page layout on A4 paper. It also works together with the babel package to provide language options to typeset documents in Afrikaans or in English. Additional packages are provided for bibliographic matter, note title pages, lists of symbols, as well as various graphic files for logos. CHANGES FROM Stellenbosch-07: USthesis: v4.1 a) Fix errors in declaration page (usthesis.eng) a) Add signature and signed date macros for declaration page. USbib.sty v1.0 a) Rewrite inside bib testing mechanism for BIBand b) Remove redefinition of thebibliography environment. USlogos v4.0 a) Add UScrest-WM.jpg/eps for watermarks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stellenbosch . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/stellenbosch (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 .

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CTAN has a new package: exp-testopt
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 Paul Ebermann submitted the new package exp-testopt to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/exp-testopt Summary description: an expandable variant of @testopt License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides an expandable variant of the LaTeX kernel command @testopt, named @expandable@testopt, and a more general @expandable@ifopt, both intended for package writers. Also we have a variant of ewcommand which uses these macros to check for optional arguments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/exp-testopt . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=exp-testopt (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Update: epspdf / epspdf-extra
by CTAN Announcements 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 Siep Kroonenberg submitted an update to the epspdf and epspdf-extra packages. Epspdf[tk] is a Ruby script which converts between PostScript, EPS and PDF. It has both a command-line and a GUI interface. Using pdftops (from the xpdf command-line utilities) for round-tripping opens up several new possibilities compared to older similarly-named utilities. epspdf-extra provides multi-platform support for epspdf. Location on CTAN: /support/epspdf and /support/epspdf-extra License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Main changes: - optional support for hires boundingbox - support for MikTeX's builtin Ghostscript - various bugfixes Changes to epspdf-extras: Updated Ruby/Tk subset. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/epspdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=epspdf (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 . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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