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CTAN package update: the UK TeX FAQ
by CTAN Announcements 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

I am pleased to announce version 3.16 of the UK TeX FAQ; it has been installed at the Cambridge node, and should be somewhere near you really soon. The FAQ is LaTeX-oriented, but has a fair amount aimed to help and interest Plain TeX users. Users of other macro packages may not find it terribly helpful (but then, Context users always have contextgarden...). I append the changes file below. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team Changes in version 3.16 These are changes from 3.15a, which incorporated a couple of minor corrections made on the day 3.15 was uploaded New answers: Label chngmargonfly: changing the document's margins on the fly Label doc-wiki: catalogue of known tex-related WIKIs Label fonts-pln: sophisticated font selection macros in Plain TeX Label gutter: the problem with two-sided document margins Label marginmanual: setting up the document's margins by hand Label marginpkgs: packages for setting up the document's margins Label matchbrak: matching [] in optional arguments, etc. Label newfont: why shouldn't I use ewfont in LaTeX? Label poster: summary of the inadequate state of support for posters Label repeatgrf: repeated graphics in documents Label whatbst: choosing a BibTeX style Label whatpdftex: PDFTeX has entered the mainstream (actually, it did some time ago, but I've now recognised that in the FAQ) Answers removed: Label pdftex: I think pdftex is no longer research -- see label whatpdftex Revised answers: Label ant: correct home page reference Label changemargin: rehashed as intro and list of links to (new) instruction answers marginpkgs, marginmanual and chngmargonfly Label complist: mention multenum package Label cv: europecv has improved, and there's a new class moderncv Label dvipsgraphics: extend discussion of bitmap graphics in dvips Label drawing: correct URL for pstricks site Label findfiles: remove mention of the (long dead) quote site index, add the catalogue bytopic.html Label fmtconv: troff-to-latex no longer available Label newfunction: mention operatorname command Label labundef: mention labelcas package Label labelfig: mention iTe editor, correct URL on pstricks page Label man-tex: correct URL for Andy Roberts' page Label man-latex: add Chris Harrison's web manual Label rotating: mention rotfloat package Label seccntformat: correction of suggested code Label secthead: remove 2.09 font commands from simple example Label struttab: mention new cellspace package Label texsystems: mention w32tex (from japan) -- capable of being a minimal system Label tutbitslatex: correct URL for the pTeX description, add link to Smith's LaTeX for logicians Label usepictex: correct stuff about mathspic package Label verbwithin: make clear problems apply to verbatim environment, too Label xetex: simplify the answer (the details are all on the web site, anyway), and mention the new linux port Presentation: LaTeX ``...'' quotes in the source used to be converted to the ascii double-quote character in the HTML; this is changed to use the HTML entities for typographic quotes (similarly for single quotes and apostrophes). A minor change to html generation has been made, inserting paragraph elements after block quotes: this makes CSS-controlled display more regular (a CSS sheet is used in the code generated for the new CGI engine -- see below). Building the FAQ now requires e-TeX (or rather [pdf-]e-LaTeX); this should not be a problem unless your TeX distribution is a bit aged. Future releases: This release is wildly overdue (even making allowance for my extended illness). If I can find the time to do so, I intend in future to release anything that's available, around the end of each month. Full releases, with batches of new questions, may still be long delayed, but I hope not. Coming up (still): I have a far more efficient CGI engine for serving answers to the web; those of a strong constitution may view the experimental testbed at: URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html-gamma It is missing a search engine, various links and topping and tailing of answers; it uses Cambridge University's default CSS sheet in a non-standard way; and, crucially it lacks **SUPPORT**. I welcome suggestions for improving the way I do things, but I can't claim it will always work. Mechanisms whereby I can point to the CTAN catalogue from FAQ answers remains as a background task; I suggested several ways (last time) in which such links would be valuable.

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CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates for the font packages antt (v2.06) iwona (v0.97) kurier (v0.97) All are located in CTAN'S fonts directory tree. See below for more information. Thanks for the upload. ------ Package: antt Version: 2.06 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/antt/ In the current version (2.06) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: iwona Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/iwona/ Iwona is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was created as an alternative version of the Kurier typeface, which was designed in 1975 for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. Kurier was designed for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The Iwona fonts are an alternative version of the Kurier fonts. The difference lies in the absence of ink traps which typify the Kurier font. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/iwona folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ------ Package: kurier Version: 0.97 Author: Janusz Marian Nowacki License: GFNL (GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE based on LPPL) Location on CTAN: fonts/kurier/ Kurier is a two-element sans-serif typeface. It was designed for a diploma in typeface design at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Roman Tomaszewski. The result was presented with other Polish typefaces at the ATypI conference in Warsaw in 1975. Kurier was intended for linotype typesetting of newspapers and similar periodicals. The design goals included resistance to technological processes destructive to the letter shapes. As a result, amongst others, the typeface distinguishes itself through intra- and extra-letter white spaces as well as ink traps at cross-sections of some elements constituting the characters. This distribution contains a significantly extended set of characters covering the following modern alphabets: latin (including Vietnamese), cyrillic and greek as well as a number of additional symbols (including mathematical symbols). The fonts are prepared in Type 1 and OpenType formats. For use with TeX the following encoding files have been prepared: T1 (ec), T2 (abc), and OT2 -- cirilic, T5 (Vietnamese), OT4, QX, texansi and nonstandard (IL2 for the Czech fonts), as well as supporting macros and files defining fonts for LaTeX. The doc/fonts/kurier folder contains examples for plain TeX as well as for LaTeX and an example of typesetting mathematics. In the current version (0.97) some new glyphs were added: Breveinverted, Hbar.small, Ubreveinvertedlow, Ubreveinvertedlow.small, breveinverted, breveinvertedlow, dotlessi.small, dotlessj.small, ubreveinvertedlow. Also encoding files were corrected. ---------------------------------- For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: The makecell package 0.1c
by CTAN Announcements 29 Jun '06

29 Jun '06

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the makecell package. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/makecell Summary description: Tabular column heads and multilined cells License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package offers a command, based on one-column tabular environment, which allows to support a common layout for tabular column heads in whole document. Another offered command is for creation of multilined tabular cells. There are also: 1) a macro, which changes vertical spaces around all cells in tabular (like in tabls package) but based on macros of array package; 2) macros for multirow cells/heads, which use macro from multirow package. ----- Changes: Added macros for skipping and numbering of similar cell rows. Corrections in documentation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: TeXshade v1.15
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, 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 colors, text styles, labels, legends and even allows the user to define completely new sha- ding 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXshade sequence and subfamily logos do not need pstricks anymore. Bug fixes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: mhchem bundle v3.03
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Martin Hensel submitted an update to the mhchem bundle for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/mhchem/ Summary description: for typesetting chemical formulae, chemical equations and Risk and Safety (R and S) Phrases License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- most significant change: - option to render reaction arrows using the pgf package further changes: - H2_{(aq)} now adds a small space before the (aq) - bugfix: line height of formulae with <-> was too large ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: ednotes package for scholarly critical editions
by CTAN Announcements 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Uwe Lück submitted and update to the ednotes package for scholarly critical editions. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ednotes License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES for ednotes.sty v1.23b 2006/01/26: 1. Remarks in documentation: how not to suppress hyphenation of first word in a lemma tag. (I prefer explaining customization to changing the default -- which some users may prefer.) 2. Package option `edmacpara' adapted to nccfoots v1.2 -- this requires updating mfparptc.sty as well. 3. Occasionally LPPL v1.3a -> v1.3c . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: PerlTeX
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

This package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you Scott. Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's 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 given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. PerlTeX v1.3 adds code to work around a limitation of the Perl sandbox (i.e., that certain constructs fail even when perltex is run with the --nosafe option) and introduces a perldo macro that enables the execution of Perl code outside of any subroutine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/perltex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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 package update: acronym-1.26
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded acronym-1.26 to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/acronym-1.26. > > As usual, this is a minor update. Only announce it if it strikes you as important. > > Recent Changes: > --------------------------------------------------- > Version 1.26 (June 2006) supress lone item when nolist is in effect > -- Immo Köster <Immo.Koester there rwth-aachen.de> > > Version 1.25 (November 2005) properly handle acronyms in pdfbookmarks > -- Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek there uni-freiburg.de> > [...] i've installed the replacement package and updated the catalogue. thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team

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CTAN update: The lhfonts package 3.5d
by CTAN Announcements 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Olga Lapko submitted an update to the lh package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/cyrillic/lh Summary description: Cyrillic fonts with support of LaTeX standard encodings License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The LH fonts address the problem of the wide variety of alphabets that are written with Cyrillic-style characters. The fonts are the original basis of the set of T2* and X2 encodings that are now used when LaTeX users need to write in Cyrillic languages. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. ----- Changes: Added directories in fonts/source/lh directory for Concrete boldface fonts. The TeX source files for creation of METAFONT files moved to source/fonts/lh directory to follow TeX Directory Structure rules. Added minor LaTeX support for standard LaTeX and traditional Cyrillic encodings (for SliTeX, CM Bright, Concrete fonts). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: digiconfigs
by CTAN Announcements 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon St Michael's College ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: digiconfigs Author's name: Lars Madsen Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/digiconfigs Summary description: Small package for easily writing 'configurations', i.e. special circ + ullet matrices. License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digiconfigs provide an easy way to create 'configurations' i.e. matrices of circ's and ullet's See documentation for more info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/digiconfigs . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is 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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