From spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk Wed Jun 22 18:15:45 1994 Date: 22 Jun 1994 20:55:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Sebastian Rahtz To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: remocal of latex209 Mainz packages The latex209 distribution on CTAN is being cut back to the minimum, ie just what Lamport provided. This means that NFSS1 and all the old `Mainz' packages are being withdrawn. Sebastian Rahtz From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jun 23 20:13:33 1994 Date: 23 Jun 1994 17:35:13 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: fig2eng On Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:34:46 +1000, Geoff Tobin provided the following new package and CTAN package description. The three individual files appear as noted in this description. Thanks, George =========================================================================== Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description ------------------------------------------------------ Name: fig2eng Author: Geoffrey Tobin Date: 23.6.1994 Last changed in archive: 1994/06/23 Version: 0.3 Archive-path: graphics/fig2eng Description: This package translates files in the graphics language Fig 2.1 into English descriptions of their contents. Included in the distribution are a README file, C source code, and unix Makefile. From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jun 26 16:01:35 1994 Date: 26 Jun 1994 13:57:41 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: cmcyralt files On Sat, 25 Jun 1994 19:04:44 +0800, vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw (V.V.Zhytnikov) posted: > I've uploaded three directories into incoming of shsu.edu: > > (1) /cmcyralt-fonts > Russian fonts in alternative encoding: .mf .tfm .vf .vpl files > Destination: /fonts/cmcyralt > > (2) /cmcyralt-nfss1 > LaTeX 2.09 NFSS1 style for the fonts (1) > Destination: /macros/latex209/contrib/cmcyralt > > (3) /cmcyralt-nfss2 > LaTeX 2e style for the fonts (1) > Destination: /macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt > > Yours, Vadim Zhytnikov (vvzhy@phy.ncu.edu.tw) Thanks for the submission. The files have been moved into the directories as recommended. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jun 26 16:06:38 1994 Date: 26 Jun 1994 14:03:09 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: sozueh@rpi.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission On Sat, 25 Jun 1994 05:43:26 -0400, H Sami Sozuer posted: > I put the file noprot.sty in the incoming directory. This style file > eliminates the need for \protection in \thanks, \caption and the sectioning > commands such as \section, \chapter etc. Since it works with Latex 2.09 I > would recommend it to be placed in > /tex-archives/macros/latex209/contrib/noprotect/noprot.sty > > Sami Sozuer Thanks for the submission. Consistent with the naming structure used in the macros/latex209/ hierarchy, this file has been installed in macros/latex209/contrib/misc/noprot.sty Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jun 27 10:19:02 1994 Date: 27 Jun 1994 08:01:24 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: fig2eng 0.4 On Mon, 27 Jun 1994 21:40:46 +1000, Geoff Tobin posted: > Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description > ------------------------------------------------------ > Name: fig2eng > Author: Geoffrey Tobin > Date: 27.6.1994 > Last changed in archive: 1994/06/27 > Version: 0.4 > Archive-path: graphics/fig2eng > Description: > This package translates files in the graphics language Fig 2.1 > into English descriptions of their contents. > Included in the distribution are a README file, (traditional and ANSI > compatible) C source code, and a unix Makefile. The files have been updated, as noted. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jun 30 14:36:54 1994 Date: 30 Jun 1994 12:31:26 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: alpert@bldr.nist.gov Cc: info-tex@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, ctan-mir@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: latex209 directory On Thu, 30 Jun 94 09:55:34 MDT, alpert@bldr.nist.gov (Bradley K. Alpert) posted to : > In attempting to retrieve some files from the directory > tex-archive/macros/latex209/distribs, I discovered that, with the sole > exception of latex, none of the promised subdirectories was present. I > have subsequently retrieved files from Stuttgart, but I thought you might > want to know. > > Brad Alpert With the sole exception of the latex directory (Lamport's original distribution) in that portion of the macros/latex209/distribs/ directory of the CTAN, all other packages (often referred to as the "Mainz packages") have been removed at the request of the authors of those packages. As this was a previously-supported set of packages for 2.09, their removal reflects the upgrade of LaTeX from 2.09 (where these were official add-ons) to LaTeX2e (where these are integrated and improved portions of the standard distribution). These files should not be included in any reliable mirror of the CTAN collection. Rather than add on to an existing 2.09 distribution (which I assume you are doing), it is my understanding that the LaTeX team would strongly prefer that you upgrade your installation to the current and supported 2e distribution. You should find the functionality of these distributions already included in a 2e installation and available for immediate (and supported) use. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul 1 12:53:28 1994 Date: 01 Jul 1994 10:48:28 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: How to know what is installed? On Fri, 1 Jul 1994 02:10:43 -0600, michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) posted to info-tex@shsu.edu: > It appears that there is a need for a program of that type to help navigate > through more and more complex TeX installations. Below is included such > utility written in Perl. A program banner should allow you to find out > what it is doing. > > This is a Unix version, but if you have Perl on your non-Unix system, then > necessary modifications to the program (like different PATH and directory > separators) should be pretty obvious. This file (found in incoming here) has been installed in support/texfind at SHSU. Thanks! --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul 1 16:29:48 1994 Date: 01 Jul 1994 14:25:19 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beccari@polito.it, calvani@astrpd.astro.it Subject: RE: ithyph.tex Barbara Beeton was kind enough to do some investigation for me on a recently submitted file for Italian hypenation patterns (thanks bnb!). Her outline is attached below for reference purposes. Briefly, the changes are: language/hyphenation/ithyph.tex -- removed language/italian/ithyph.tex -- removed and superceded by language/italian/lahyph.tex -- installed The change in name from "ithyph.tex" to "lahyph.tex", as noted in the header of the lahyph.tex file, is in accordance with the ISO name for Latin and the convention that hypenation pattern file names are based on the two letter ISO code followed by "hyph.tex". As she notes below, the proper location should migrate to language//hyph.tex Regards and my thanks to everyone involved in submitting and investigating this, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Date: 30 Jun 1994 09:18:59 -0400 (EDT) From: bbeeton Subject: ithyph.tex To: beccari@polito.it, calvani@astrpd.astro.it CC: bed_gdg@shsu.edu Message-ID: <772982339.672631.BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG> claudio and max, thanks for looking into the problem of multiple ithyph.tex files on ctan. i've now done some investigating myself, and think i can give "final" instructions to george for clearing it up. at the moment, i find these three files at shsu: 1994/03/15 | 4659 | language/hyphenation/ithyph.tex 1989/11/23 | 11182 | language/italian/ithyph.tex 1989/11/23 | 3689 | macros/plain/contrib/samples/ithyphen.tex the first, in /hyphenation, is claudio's patterns (though i believe claudio has made some updates and loaded a new version into /incoming). the third is anonymous -- no author is identified -- and the text accompanying it is all in italian. i don't know what else may be associated with it (did not check), but presumably it's part of a package, so it shouldn't just be deleted without checking. the core of the second is just the same as the third -- two copies, actually -- along with some correspondence between max and sebastian. since max disclaims authorship, and the patterns are the same as in ithyphen.tex, there would be no loss by removing it and replacing it by claudio's patterns, and this is what i am asking george to do now. so, george -- i believe the discussion of where hyphenation patterns should go has been settled on language//... therefore, please install claudio's most up-to-date ithyph.tex in language/italian and remove the file from language/hyphenation . leave the .../samples/ithyphen.tex alone for now. maybe sometime later this can be investigated and resolved. thanks again, one and all. cheers. -- bb From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fri Jul 1 22:03:29 1994 Date: 01 Jul 1994 23:47:44 +0200 From: Johannes L. Braams To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, TeX-NL@nic.surfnet.nl, TeX-Euro@vm.urz.uni-Heidelberg.de, UkTeX@ftp.TeX.Ac.Uk, TeX-D-L@vm.gmd.de Subject: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 1 Hello, On CTAN, in the directory macros/latex/packages/babel the latest version of babel, version 3.4 patch level 1 has been made available. This version of the babel system has been upgraded for use with LaTeX2e. Yet it can (again) also be used with plain TeX. Patch level 1 fixes a problem with \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin. They didn't get their proper values in the earlier release. Also some incompatibilities with plain TeX have been removed. Version 3.4 patch level 1 is not compatible with T1 output encoding, some of the language specific files may give unecpected results with T1. The support for typesetting in russian that was available in versions 3.3 and earlier has (temporarily) been withdrawn in versino 3.4. I need someone to help me with that. Happy TeXing, Johannes Braams PTT Research, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 5 09:58:46 1994 Date: 05 Jul 1994 07:48:59 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: RE: minitoc package On Tue, 5 Jul 94 14:18:35 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert) posted: > I have put two new versions of the minitoc package in > the incoming/minitoc directory. These versions are in two > directories (after exploding the minitoc.tar.gz file): > --- directory 209 contains version #17 for LaTeX 2.09. > It will be the last version for the old version of LaTeX. > But that version is compatible with the new LaTeX > (formely nicknamed 2e patch 2). No further development > is intended from that version of `transition'. > This version should replace the version currently > in .../macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc. These files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu and replace those previously in macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/. > --- directory 2e contains version #18 for the new LaTeX > (or LaTeX 2e). That version is incompatible with > LaTeX 209. It should be installed as a supported > (loosely, when I have some free time) package for > the new LaTeX. > > These versions have been developped whith the precious > help from Franz Mittelbach and Michel Goossens. Thanks to > them! > > Your faithful LaTeXer, > > Jean-Pierre Drucbert > drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr These files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu in macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/. While your intent is to have these as supported files, the macros/latex/contrib/supported/ directory is intended to follow a specific set of minimal rules for design. Joachim Schrod (cc'ed on this) is in charge of the supported area and has prepared a draft version of the rules for inclusion in this area, which I do not believe has been released for general consumption. When it is ready (I assume Joachim will have it available in the very near future), it will be installed as a single file available for retrieval. I believe the name of the file is to be macros/latex/contrib/bundles.tex, although I don't recall off hand if this is the precise location or file name. When it is prepared and installed, it will be announced to INFO-TeX@SHSU.edu (which is ported to comp.text.tex) and CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu (CTAN announcements list). I will make every effort to see that you also recieve a copy of this document and believe that Joachim will forward it to you, as well (TIA Joachim! -- since I just kind of committed you to something without your prior consent 8-)). Once the file set meet the minimal stipulated requirements, Joachim will move them (or have them moved) from the contrib/other/ area to the contrib/supported/ hierarchy as he has volunteered to serve as the gatekeeper to this part of the macros/latex/ CTAN directory structure. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Tue Jul 5 11:09:51 1994 Date: 05 Jul 1994 15:57:06 +0200 From: drucbert To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: ANNOUNCE -- minitoc package new versionS Dear LaTeXers, Two new versions of the minitoc package are available on the CTAN archives (or will be as soon as mirroring from the SHSU archive has been done). These versions are in two places in the tex-archive hierarchy: --- version #17 for LaTeX 2.09. It will be the last version for the old version of LaTeX. But that version is compatible with the new LaTeX (formely nicknamed 2e patch 2). No further development is intended from that version of `transition'. This version is in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc --- version #18 for the new LaTeX (or LaTeX 2e). That version is incompatible with LaTeX 209. It has been a not officially supported package (loosely supported, when I have some free time) package for the new LaTeX. This version is in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc Both versions have been developped with the precious help from Franz Mittelbach and Michel Goossens. Thanks to them! Please read with attention the README file before installation and usage. Happy LaTeXing, Jean-Pierre Drucbert drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Jul 7 13:09:53 1994 Date: 07 Jul 1994 11:01:15 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: mattes@dante.de Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Installation information message On Thu, 7 Jul 1994 15:50:25 +0200, Eberhard Mattes posted: > New item `systems/msdos/emtex/betatest/mfb3.zip' has been installed Eberhard: Thanks for posting this -- note that I am forwarding it to the e-mail address CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu. I respectfully request that you use this address for future posts of this nature as it is intended specifically for CTAN-related announcements. With its present 145 (and growing) subscribership, this represents the quickest way presently to disseminate this type of information to the largest targeted audience. Regards and thanks again, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Sun Jul 10 17:26:20 1994 Date: 10 Jul 1994 15:22:37 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: michaelb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: your article about CTAN in TUGboat 14.3 -- please can you send a copy On Sun, 10 Jul 94 10:25:55 -0400, "Michael P. Barnett" posted privately: > Please could you email or tell me how to ftp a copy of this article. > > Sebastian Rahtz recommended it in response to question from me re material > about CTAN for colleagues to see prior to Kevin and I putting software into > it (academic courtesy and protocol -- we want to be sure that Chem.Dept. > and ICGL get credited for it). Thanks for your interest in that piece (and to Sebastian for recommending it). While I know that it has been published in a few places, I have been amazed by the amount of continuing interest in it from a number of sources, which is quite humbling. Since I had trouble finding the source file this time around (had to pull it from tape), I just installed it on the SHSU CTAN host (ftp.SHSU.edu) in tex-archive/help/greenwade-tug93.tex (an admittedly awkward name, but that was the original one so....) and it should propagate to the other hosts in a timely fashion. Please be aware that a few minor changes have occurred over the past year (renaming a few directories and having both European hosts physically change machines mainly) so it may not be completely accurate as of the moment, but the general information in it remains correct. Perhaps a running errata file should be added and maintained for this to properly serve as a general theory introduction to the CTAN. I will discuss this with a few people at TUG'94 in Santa Barbara later this month. If you have trouble getting this, please let me know. Regards and, again, thanks, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 11 17:43:58 1994 Date: 11 Jul 1994 15:38:28 -0400 (EDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: MIMI@scri.fsu.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN Submission -- macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex On Mon, 11 Jul 1994 11:48:33 -0400 (EDT), SCRIMING MIMI 904/644-2440 posted: > This is a macro package for typesetting chemical structure formulae using > LaTeX (2.09 only), is based on the picture environment of LaTeX, and > requires the epic.sty file to use (this file is included in this set of > files also). > > author's blurb: > "Name: XyMTeX > Description: Macro Package including LaTeX document-style options for > typesetting chemical structural formulas > Keywords: LaTeX, chemisty, structural formula" > > Suggested placement: tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/ Thanks for the submission. The files have been installed as suggested. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 11:46:26 1994 Date: 12 Jul 1994 09:39:54 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade To: ghibo@galileo.polito.it Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission On Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 13:37:53 +0200, P.Lepora (7512) posted: > The program I've submitted is 'Mma2ltx'. It allows to include the graphics > produced by Mathematica in a LaTeX document using own LaTeX font and > symbols. > > The recommended directory is /tex-archive/graphics/mma2ltx. > > Regards. > > Giuseppe Ghibo' > e-mail: Thank you for your submission. The files have been installed at SHSU as suggested. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 16:21:26 1994 Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:07:30 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: CHANGE: macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/aliphat.sty In the macros/latex209/contrib/xymtex/ package installed yesterday, there was a glitch in the aliphat.sty file (it was actually a tar file). The correct version of this file has replaced the bogus one. --George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 12 16:48:53 1994 Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:37:28 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk, mackay@cs.washington.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, twg-tds@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN: macros/latex/packages/psnfss/lw35nfss/ Pierre MacKay has created a much-called-for sub-set of the PSNFSS files for LaTeX2e which has been installed in /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/psnfss/lw35nfss/lw35nfss.zip just now installed at ftp.SHSU.edu. Attached is the supplied README file, which requires nominal discussion -- the "TDS" he refers to (and this archive conforms to) is aimed at a standard TeX Directory Structure which is evolving from a TUG Technical Working Group on that topic which Norm Walsh has chaired in with a yeomanlike effort. I feel confident that more on this topic will follow in the somewhat near future, but the good news is that this TDS is targeted at defining and creating a platform-independent standard TeX directory hierarchy which can be implemented on every operating system. Thanks to Pierre, this newly installed package represents a first effort at conforming to that standard. --George =========================================================================== This file is texmf/doc/lw35nfss/README P. A. MacKay 11 July, 1994. mackay@cs.washington.edu This is a limited selection from the much larger set of NFSS support files developed by Sebastian Rahtz. If you want more than the barest functional access to the printer resident fonts on your PostScript output device, you need to go beyond this. The purpose of this set of files is to make the use of "packages" such as |times.sty| available in the simplest and most direct way. The rest of this file shows the directory trees, all rooted in $TEXMFROOT, contained in the lw35nfss package. These trees have been arranged to conform with the TDS (TeX Directory Standard), and should require no rearrangement in a TDS conformant installation. INSTALL # Discard this file after use. Do not leave it in # the texmf/ directory doc/ /lw35nfss/README dvips/ config.pag config.pbk config.pcr config.phv config.pnc config.ppl config.psy config.ptm config.pzc config.pzd pag.map pbk.map pcr.map phv.map pnc.map ppl.map psy.map ptm.map pzc.map pzd.map fonts/ adobe/ avantgar/ README afm/ pagd0.afm pagdo0.afm pagk0.afm pagko0.afm tfm/ pagd0.tfm pagd7t.tfm pagdc7t.tfm pagdcq.tfm pagdo0.tfm pagdo7t.tfm pagdoq.tfm pagdq.tfm pagk0.tfm pagk7t.tfm pagkc7t.tfm pagkcq.tfm pagko0.tfm pagko7t.tfm pagkoq.tfm pagkq.tfm vf/ pagd7t.vf pagdc7t.vf pagdcq.vf pagdo7t.vf pagdoq.vf pagdq.vf pagk7t.vf pagkc7t.vf pagkcq.vf pagko7t.vf pagkoq.vf pagkq.vf bookman/ README afm/ pbkd0.afm pbkdi0.afm pbkl0.afm pbkli0.afm tfm/ pbkd0.tfm pbkd7t.tfm pbkdc7t.tfm pbkdcq.tfm pbkdi0.tfm pbkdi7t.tfm pbkdiq.tfm pbkdo0.tfm pbkdo7t.tfm pbkdoq.tfm pbkdq.tfm pbkl0.tfm pbkl7t.tfm pbklc7t.tfm pbklcq.tfm pbkli0.tfm pbkli7t.tfm pbkliq.tfm pbklo0.tfm pbklo7t.tfm pbkloq.tfm pbklq.tfm vf/ pbkd7t.vf pbkdc7t.vf pbkdcq.vf pbkdi7t.vf pbkdiq.vf pbkdo7t.vf pbkdoq.vf pbkdq.vf pbkl7t.vf pbklc7t.vf pbklcq.vf pbkli7t.vf pbkliq.vf pbklo7t.vf pbkloq.vf pbklq.vf courier/ README afm/ pcrb0.afm pcrbo0.afm pcrr0.afm pcrro0.afm tfm/ pcrb0.tfm pcrb7t.tfm pcrbc7t.tfm pcrbcq.tfm pcrbo0.tfm pcrbo7t.tfm pcrboq.tfm pcrbq.tfm pcrr0.tfm pcrr7t.tfm pcrrc7t.tfm pcrrcq.tfm pcrro0.tfm pcrro7t.tfm pcrroq.tfm pcrrq.tfm vf/ pcrb7t.vf pcrbc7t.vf pcrbcq.vf pcrbo7t.vf pcrboq.vf pcrbq.vf pcrr7t.vf pcrrc7t.vf pcrrcq.vf pcrro7t.vf pcrroq.vf pcrrq.vf helvetic/ README afm/ phvb0.afm phvbo0.afm phvboc0.afm phvbon0.afm phvbrc0.afm phvbrn0.afm phvbrp0.afm phvc0.afm phvco0.afm phvcoc0.afm phvcrc0.afm phvr0.afm phvro0.afm phvroc0.afm phvron0.afm phvrrc0.afm phvrrn0.afm phvrrq0.afm phvrru0.afm tfm/ phvb0.tfm phvb7t.tfm phvbc7t.tfm phvbcn7t.tfm phvbcnq.tfm phvbcq.tfm phvbo0.tfm phvbo7t.tfm phvbon0.tfm phvbon7t.tfm phvbonq.tfm phvboq.tfm phvbq.tfm phvbrn0.tfm phvbrn7t.tfm phvbrnq.tfm phvr0.tfm phvr7t.tfm phvrc7t.tfm phvrcn7t.tfm phvrcnq.tfm phvrcq.tfm phvro0.tfm phvro7t.tfm phvron0.tfm phvron7t.tfm phvronq.tfm phvroq.tfm phvrq.tfm phvrrn0.tfm phvrrn7t.tfm phvrrnq.tfm vf/ phvb7t.vf phvbc7t.vf phvbcn7t.vf phvbcnq.vf phvbcq.vf phvbo7t.vf phvbon7t.vf phvbonq.vf phvboq.vf phvbq.vf phvbrn7t.vf phvbrnq.vf phvr7t.vf phvrc7t.vf phvrcn7t.vf phvrcnq.vf phvrcq.vf phvro7t.vf phvron7t.vf phvronq.vf phvroq.vf phvrq.vf phvrrn7t.vf phvrrnq.vf newcentu/ README afm/ pncb0.afm pncbi0.afm pncr0.afm pncri0.afm tfm/ pncb0.tfm pncb7t.tfm pncbc7t.tfm pncbcq.tfm pncbi0.tfm pncbi7t.tfm pncbiq.tfm pncbo0.tfm pncbo7t.tfm pncboq.tfm pncbq.tfm pncr0.tfm pncr7t.tfm pncrc7t.tfm pncrcq.tfm pncri0.tfm pncri7t.tfm pncriq.tfm pncro0.tfm pncro7t.tfm pncroq.tfm pncrq.tfm vf/ pncb7t.vf pncbc7t.vf pncbcq.vf pncbi7t.vf pncbiq.vf pncbo7t.vf pncboq.vf pncbq.vf pncr7t.vf pncrc7t.vf pncrcq.vf pncri7t.vf pncriq.vf pncro7t.vf pncroq.vf pncrq.vf palatino/ README afm/ pplb0.afm pplbi0.afm pplr0.afm pplri0.afm tfm/ pplb0.tfm pplb7t.tfm pplbc7t.tfm pplbcq.tfm pplbi0.tfm pplbi7t.tfm pplbiq.tfm pplbo0.tfm pplbo7t.tfm pplboq.tfm pplbq.tfm pplr0.tfm pplr7t.tfm pplrc7t.tfm pplrcq.tfm pplri0.tfm pplri7t.tfm pplriq.tfm pplro0.tfm pplro7t.tfm pplroq.tfm pplrq.tfm vf/ pplb7t.vf pplbc7t.vf pplbcq.vf pplbi7t.vf pplbiq.vf pplbo7t.vf pplboq.vf pplbq.vf pplr7t.vf pplrc7t.vf pplrcq.vf pplri7t.vf pplriq.vf pplro7t.vf pplroq.vf pplrq.vf symbol/ README afm/ psyr.afm tfm/ psyr.tfm times/ README afm/ ptmb0.afm ptmbi0.afm ptmr0.afm ptmri0.afm tfm/ ptmb0.tfm ptmb7t.tfm ptmbc7t.tfm ptmbcq.tfm ptmbi0.tfm ptmbi7t.tfm ptmbiq.tfm ptmbo0.tfm ptmbo7t.tfm ptmboq.tfm ptmbq.tfm ptmr0.tfm ptmr7t.tfm ptmrc7t.tfm ptmrcq.tfm ptmri0.tfm ptmri7t.tfm ptmriq.tfm ptmro0.tfm ptmro7t.tfm ptmroq.tfm ptmrq.tfm vf/ ptmb7t.vf ptmbc7t.vf ptmbcq.vf ptmbi7t.vf ptmbiq.vf ptmbo7t.vf ptmboq.vf ptmbq.vf ptmr7t.vf ptmrc7t.vf ptmrcq.vf ptmri7t.vf ptmriq.vf ptmro7t.vf ptmroq.vf ptmrq.vf zapfchan/ README afm/ pzcmi0.afm tfm/ pzcmi0.tfm pzcmi7t.tfm pzcmiq.tfm vf/ pzcmi7t.vf pzcmiq.vf zapfding/ README afm/ pzdr.afm tfm/ pzdr.tfm tex/ latex/ psnfss/ OT1pag.fd OT1pbk.fd OT1pcr.fd OT1phv.fd OT1pnc.fd OT1ppl.fd OT1ptm.fd OT1pzc.fd README T1pag.fd T1pbk.fd T1pcr.fd T1phv.fd T1pnc.fd T1ppl.fd T1ptm.fd T1pzc.fd Upsy.fd Upzd.fd avant.sty avantgar.sty bookman.sty chancery.sty courier.sty helvet.sty helvetic.sty mathptm.sty newcent.sty newcentu.sty palatino.sty pifont.sty times.sty zapfchan.sty From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Tue Jul 12 18:17:58 1994 Date: 12 Jul 1994 23:08:55 +0200 From: Johannes L. Braams Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: TeX-NL@nic.surfnet.nl, TeX-Euro@vm.urz.uni-Heidelberg.de, UkTeX@ftp.TeX.Ac.Uk, TeX-D-L@vm.gmd.de Subject: Announcing babel version 3.4 patch level 2 Hello, On CTAN, in the directory macros/latex/packages/babel the latest version of babel, version 3.4 patch level 2 has been made available. This version contains a few patches to make the documentation run again, and to change language.dat to load only hyphen.tex bu default. The most important change is that the pattern loading code now checks if the pattern file set the values vor \left- and \righthyphenmin. If not defaults are provided. The values so found are stored in \extras. The error messages have been rewritten to use the new LaTeX error interface when that is available. This has been available on CTAN for a while now, I just forgot to announce it. Happy TeXing, Johannes Braams PTT Research, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Fri Jul 15 08:36:31 1994 Date: 15 Jul 1994 21:32:28 +1000 From: Geoff Tobin Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: G.Tobin@shannon.ee.latrobe.edu.au Subject: mfpic 0.2.5.1 (bug fix release). Version 0.2.5.1 of mfpic is available at CTAN. Here is a brief description. Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description ------------------------------------------------------ Name: mfpic Authors: Thomas Leathrum Geoffrey Tobin Date: 12 July 1994 Last changed in archive: 12 July 1994 Version: 0.2.5.1 Archive-path: graphics/mfpic Description: A set of TeX and Metafont macros that essentially draw pictures in a TeX document using Metafont. Support for unix, MS-DOS, and 4DOS. In MFpic, each picture comes out as a single Metafont character; the TeX macros actually write the Metafont file for you, so there's no need to learn Metafont (although you do have to be able to run Metafont); and the TeX macros are things like \axes, \arrow, \circle, \curve, etc., similar in nature (but nowhere near the scope) of PiC-TeX. The advantages of this technique: significantly faster than PiC-TeX (especially on curves), totally printer-independent (unlike \special's). Keywords: graphics, METAFONT, TeX Patch: In graphbase.mf, a bug in the unxconv macro is fixed. Updates to: mfpic/graphbase.mf misc/mfb.tex README New: CTAN.MIRRORS From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Jul 15 14:09:40 1994 Date: 15 Jul 1994 12:05:10 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: metafont-for-beginners.tex On Thu, 14 Jul 1994 14:40:58 +1000, Geoff Tobin updated his metafont-for-beginners.tex on the CTAN (thanks!). Attached is the package description. --George =========================================================================== Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description ------------------------------------------------------ Name: metafont-for-beginners.tex Author: Geoffrey Tobin Date: 14 July 1994 Last changed in archive: 14 July 1994 Version: 3 W 4 Archive-path: info Description: A LaTeX 2.09 document giving an overview of what METAFONT is, how it fits into the TeX system, and describing how to run METAFONT to create TFM metric and PK font files. Some common mistakes and error messages are illustrated, with explanations. Examples are given for the unix and ms-dos environments. Keywords: METAFONT From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Jul 19 10:48:47 1994 Date: 19 Jul 1994 08:37:10 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ghibo@galileo.polito.it Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN submission On Tue, 19 Jul 1994 11:13:13 +0200, P.Lepora (7512) posted: > - The program I've submitted is `mma2ltx' version 1.2 (16 July 1994). > This version updates the version 1.1 already installed at SHSU. > > mma2ltx allows to include graphics created by Mathematica in a LaTeX > document using own LaTeX font and symbols. Done. > - The recommended directory is /tex-archive/graphics/mma2ltx (with > LINKS to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/ and /tex-archive/systems/amiga/ > and /tex-archive/support, if is possible). Done. > Here is a brief description of the program, as I would like to appear in > the CTAN "archive description" file `catalogue.tex'. > > ---------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- > \Entry{mm2ltx}{16.7.1994}{[Giuseppe Ghib\`o ]}{1994/07/18}{1.2}{Description: > a program which allows to include graphics created with {\sl Mathematica} > into \LaTeX{} documents using own \LaTeX{} fonts and symbols. > {\it Mma2ltx} takes a graphics file created by {\sl Mathematica} > and substitutes every label and string with equivalent > strings suitable for \LaTeX{}. Macros to allow the full control > over every label converted are also provided. Support for Unix, > MS/DOS and Amiga. Requires the Rokicki's {\tt dvips} {\tt dvi} > to Post\-Script translator.}{mma2ltx}{graphics} > ---------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- > > Note that translation of control sequence such as `{\sl Mathematica}' > or `\LaTeX{}' to plain ascii text will lead to an ugly output. If control > sequences aren't allowed within the `description' field of the command > `\Entry', then take the following one: > > ---------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- > \Entry{mm2ltx}{16.7.1994}{[Giuseppe Ghibo` ]}{1994/07/18}{1.2}{Description: > a program which allows to include graphics created with MATHEMATICA > into LaTeX documents using own LaTeX fonts and symbols. > MMA2LTX takes a graphics file created by MATHEMATICA and substitutes every > label and string with equivalent strings suitable for LaTeX. Macros to allow > the full control over every label converted are also provided. Support for > Unix, MS/DOS and Amiga. Required the Rokicki's DVIPS dvi to PostScript > translator.}{mma2ltx}{graphics} > ---------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- > > > Regards. > > Giuseppe Ghib\`o > e-mail: Regards and thanks for your support of our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Jul 20 13:47:24 1994 Date: 20 Jul 1994 11:32:43 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: kb@cs.umb.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: another info file On Tue, 19 Jul 1994 12:22:31 -0400, "K. Berry" posted: > You should probably have ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/write-white on the ctan's, > in info/. I'm not likely to ever change it, so either mirror or copy is > ok, I guess. Thanks for pointing this out. I assume you intended for the file pub/tex/write-w (it's name on your archive). I have mirrored the file in at SHSU and installed it here so that the automatic mirroring of it should already be underway. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jul 20 16:45:20 1994 Date: 20 Jul 1994 21:18:53 +0200 From: Denis B. Roegel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: abrodnik@uwaterloo.ca, roegel@lorraine.loria.fr Subject: IPA package for LaTeX2e Andrej Brodnik and I have updated the ipa (International Phonetic Alphabet) package for LaTeX2e. In CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/ipa, there are now four files: -rw-rwxr-- 1 14001 mirror 276 Jul 16 10:04 README -rw-rwxr-- 1 14001 mirror 1718 Jul 16 10:04 Uipa.fd -rw-rwxr-- 1 14001 mirror 10473 Jul 16 10:04 ipa.sty -rw-rwxr-- 1 14001 mirror 20110 Jul 16 10:05 ipaman.tex This directory contained a preliminary version named ipamacs.sty, but we renamed it in order to avoid a conflict with earlier versions not working with NFSS. The fonts needed are in CTAN:macros/text1/wsuipa. Please report bugs, suggestions, ideas, etc., to Andrej or me. Denis Roegel (roegel@loria.fr) Andrej Brodnik (abrodnik@uwaterloo.ca) From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Fri Jul 22 07:03:33 1994 Date: 22 Jul 1994 11:44:35 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE, David Carlisle , alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk, c.a.rowley@open.ac.uk, mittelbach@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de, J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Subject: Updates in macros/latex/packages directory The following updates have been uploaded to the LaTeX standard packages tools and mfnfss in the LaTeX distribution on CTAN: In macros/latex/packages/tools, the following files have been updated: changes.txt fontsmpl.dtx longtable.dtx showkeys.dtx varioref.dtx In macros/latex/packages/mfnfss, the following files have been updated: oldgerm.dtx For the programming team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum der Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 25 13:06:42 1994 Date: 25 Jul 1994 11:01:18 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: new CMacTeX files On Fri, 22 Jul 1994 14:34:30 -0500 (and subsequently, with a few modifications over the weekend), Tom Kiffe posted: > I have uploaded a directory of new files for CMacTeX. Thanks! Per your suggestion, the files have been installed as additions to the directory tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex/ on ftp.shsu.edu. Regards and thanks for yoru interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Jul 25 14:04:53 1994 Date: 25 Jul 1994 12:00:03 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ramsdell@linus.mitre.org Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, litprog@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: SchemeWEB 2.1 On Mon, 25 Jul 1994 09:55:57 -0400, "John D. Ramsdell" posted: > I received a bug report for SchemeWEB 2.0. I have patched the program. > Please replace the version of SchemeWEB in the web directory with version > 2.1 which is enclosed. Thanks! I have unpacked the files and installed their contents in a revised tex-archive/web/schemeweb directory on ftp.shsu.edu. Regards and thanks for your support of our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Jul 27 03:58:51 1994 Date: 27 Jul 1994 08:55:18 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: [Jeffrey Goldberg: CTAN Submission (lastpage package)] ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Jeffrey Goldberg has contributed his `lastpage' package to the CTAN archive. The readme file is appended. Here is the README.lastpage file: - ------------------------------------------------------------ This is an extremely minor package (7 lines of "real code") for LaTeX2e. Allows for a references to something on the last page of a document. README.lastpage This file (sorry not 8.3 character name) lastpage.ins The installation batch file. (just run latex on that) to get .drv and .sty files lastpage.dtx The main file. Written and currently maintained by Jeff Goldberg (goldberg@nytud.hu) 1994/07/22 - ------------------------------------------------------------ From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Jul 27 04:03:15 1994 Date: 27 Jul 1994 08:58:45 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Andreas Tille Subject: [Andreas Tille: CTAN Submission] ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- The package circ has been installed in macros/generic/diagrams/circ This is CIRC version 0.9. What is CIRC? - ------------- With circ you can typeset circuits simply by typing commands for wires, resistors, capacitors etc. . There are MF-Sources of various symbols and a style to link them with wires in an easy way. CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use the macros and expand the package. It runs with both LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09. It is a betaversion (version 0.9). Unfortunately most of the documentation is in German :-(. Author: Sebastian Tannert Lafontainestra"se 21 06114 Halle Questions, remarks or bug-reports by E-mail to Andreas Tille: e2od5@mlucom.urz.uni-halle.de From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 9 19:21:31 1994 Date: 09 Aug 1994 13:09:17 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: vojta@math.berkeley.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, texhax@mail.tex.ac.uk Subject: RE: Announcing gsftopk 1.7 On Mon, 8 Aug 1994 15:22:43 -0700, vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) posted the following note. These files are now mirrored into the fonts/utilities/gsftopk/ directory on the CTAN. --George =========================================================================== This is to announce the availability of Version 1.7 of gsftopk. gsftopk is a package whose purpose is to allow use of PostScript fonts with xdvi. It consists of: 1. A program called gsftopk.c which creates pk font files for the PostScript fonts. The bitmaps are obtained from ghostscript. 2. A script called xdvimakepk which is to be used in place of MakeTeXPK in xdvi. The package requires the use of a dvips-style psfonts.map file. The package is available via anonymous ftp from math.berkeley.edu in the file pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.tar.Z. To upgrade from version 1.6 you may use pub/Software/TeX/gsftopk.patch7.Z instead. gsftopk is also released as a subpackage of xdvi. Version 1.7 of gsftopk (or a later version) will be part of patchlevel 19 of xdvi. Patchlevel 18 of xdvi includes only gsftopk 1.6. Version 1.7 adds the ability to do subdirectory searching, using the same // semantics as the web2c release of TeX, et. al. --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 10 17:38:51 1994 Date: 10 Aug 1994 15:31:27 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ryoung@utdallas.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: gTeX 2.1 On Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:22:00 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" posted: > In /incoming/gtex directory, I uploaded gTeX 2.1, which will go to > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex and replace current files. > > See 00readme for detail of gTeX 2.1 > > Thanks. > > Young > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Young U. Ryu JO 4.4, P.O.Box 830688 | > | Assistant Professor of MIS 2061 N. Floyd Road | > | School of Management Richardson, Texas 75083-0688 | > | University of Texas at Dallas U.S.A. | > | | > | Fax: 214-690-2799 Internet: ryoung@utdallas.edu | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Thanks for the updates. The new files have been installed to replace the former ones in tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex/ at ftp.shsu.edu. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 12:48:37 1994 Date: 11 Aug 1994 10:39:09 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: mfpic 0.2.9 alpha With subsequent files and date fixes, on Thu, 11 Aug 1994 17:47:51 +1000, Geoff Tobin provided the following package which has been installed at SHSU. Thanks!! --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description ------------------------------------------------------ Name: mfpic (alpha) Authors: Thomas Leathrum Geoffrey Tobin Date: 11 August 1994 Last changed in archive: 11 August 1994 Version: 0.2.9 alpha Archive-path: graphics/mfpic/alfatest Description: This _supplement_ to mfpic is an alpha test version for those who are eager to try version 0.3 before its features are finalised. [ MFpic is a set of TeX and Metafont macros that draw pictures in a TeX document using Metafont. ] Keywords: graphics, METAFONT, TeX, alpha, test Includes: Acknowl.tex MANIFEST README2 graphbase.mf graphdoc.tex lapictures.tex mf-revu.tex mfpic.tex mfpicdoc.tex objects.tex pictures.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 13:06:40 1994 Date: 11 Aug 1994 11:00:21 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: emm@rdt.monash.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: Latexmk 1.6 upload notification On Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 10:58:46 +0000, emm@rdt.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) posted: > This is just to let you know I've uploaded version 1.6 of latexmk to > ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming > > Please update /tex-archive/support/latexmk to this new version. Thanks for the update. The new files have been installed at SHSU. --George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 11 15:57:15 1994 Date: 11 Aug 1994 13:51:20 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ryoung@utdallas.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission (gTeX 2.1 again) On Thu, 11 Aug 1994 15:17:15 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" posted: > I got a few complaints from gTeX users, saying that gTeX 2.1's directory > structure is very strange. I checked them, and found I used wrong zip > program. So I have to upload all of them again. Thanks for your prompt attention to this. The files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex/ have been re-installed on ftp.shsu.edu. --George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Aug 12 14:18:15 1994 Date: 12 Aug 1994 12:13:31 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: HEFFERON@SMCVAX.SMCVT.EDU Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadethm.sty On 11 Aug 1994 19:44:26 -0500 (EST), Jim Hefferon posted: > shadethm.sty LaTeX 2.09 style that adds the command \newshadetheorem, which > acts just like \newtheorem except the output theorem is PostScript gray > shaded. > It uses PSTricks. I've asked tvz, and he said he plans no changes for > LaTeX2e. So I imagine it works with 2e, but I've not tested it. Thanks for the contribution. The file has been installed in macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadethm.sty at SHSU. --George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Aug 15 17:38:07 1994 Date: 15 Aug 1994 15:33:15 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: new CMacTeX files On Mon, 15 Aug 1994 15:22:46 -0500, Tom Kiffe posted: > I have uploaded a new set of files for CMacTeX. They are located in > incoming/cmactex. > Please delete all files in the directory > /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex > before moving the new files in incoming/cmactex to that directory. Thanks for the updates. The systems/mac/cmactex/ directory has been replaced with the new files just submitted. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 10:47:16 1994 Date: 16 Aug 1994 08:38:07 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: sozueh@rpi.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN upload On Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:25:54 -0400, H Sami Sozuer posted: > 1- noprot.sty > This is an improved version of the file with the same name I > uploaded earlier. Recommended directory: macros/latex209/misc > > 2- cmexb10.mf > This is a bold version of the cmex10.mf for use with > the \boldmath command in LaTeX. > Recommended directory: /tex-archive/fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold > > 3- cmttb10.mf > This is a bold version of the cmtt10.mf. I looked at the > cmbtt10.mf that's already there but found it a bit too bold > and some characters looked somewhat less than perfect. > Recommended directory: Same as 2. Thanks for the submissions -- all have been placed as recommended. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 15:55:55 1994 Date: 16 Aug 1994 13:51:50 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: minitoc.sty On Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 10:08:08 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (Jean-Pierre Drucbert) posted: > I have put new versions of minitoc.sty (and associated files) in > tex-archive/incoming/minitoc. Version 17-a is for latex209 (the versions > for latex209 will now be numbered 17-letter until I definitely switch to > latex2e). Version 19 is for latex2e. Note that versions 17-letter will be > workinf too with latex2e.^[a > > These versions fix some bugs (appendices in articles, centering of titles). > A bug in mtcswedish has been fixed by Jan Michel Rynning (jmr@nada.kth.se). > Some minor features have beean added: ability to remove/add the horizontal > rules, ability to begin with a chapter other thar chapter number one (some > people begin whith chapter zero!)^[a.^[kk^[. > > The documentation has been updated for these changes. > > PS. Thera are some typing errors in this messages. Apologies. The submitted updates have been installed on ftp.shsu.edu in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc (for LaTeX 2e) and in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc (for LaTeX 2.09) as replacements to the prior file sets there. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Aug 16 18:28:06 1994 Date: 16 Aug 1994 16:23:51 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: Corrupted file On Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:14:52 -0500 Tom Kiffe reported: > One of the CMacTeX files I uploaded yesterday was truncated during > transmission. I have placed a new version in incoming/cmactex. Please > transfer it to tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. Thanks for noticing this. Just re-installed systems/mac/cmactex/pk-files.hqx as requested. --George From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 17 06:11:57 1994 Date: 17 Aug 1994 10:05:59 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: various uploads to CTAN I have just installed/updated graphics/bit2spr (new version) support/ghostscript (replaces support/ghostview). NOTE that this has the old version 2 under the GNU license, and the bew version 3 with its own license. please read the docs and be legal!) macros/latex209/contrib/lexitex (update, plus BiBTeX support) graphics/{xfig,transfig} (new versions) support/bibdb (new version) language/hyphenation/norhyph.tex (Norwegian) sorry about the terseness of the details, i am trying to clear the backlog here! sebastian rahtz From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug 17 10:23:11 1994 Date: 17 Aug 1994 14:49:39 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Kielhorn , m604@btm6x1.mat.uni-bayreuth.de, spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, Jochen Schuetze Subject: New items on CTAN The following items have been added to the CTAN archives: macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script Variants of the article/book/report classes analogous to the script package for LaTeX 2.09, by Markus Kohm systems/vms/... Updates for DECUS TeX, by Christian Spieler tools/zip/info-zip/VMS/unzip511x-axp.exe tools/zip/info-zip/VMS/unzip511x-vax.exe Executables of unzip 5.11 for VAX/VMS and OpenVMS/AXP, by Christian Spieler web/c_cpp/AmigaCWEB New version 3.2, by Andreas Scherer macros/latex/contrib/supported/myletter Configurable letter class, by Axel Kielhorn. systems/msdos/e4t/gnuplot.hlp Extra helpfile for gnuplot, to be used in Eddi4TeX, by Jochen Schuetze Many thanks to all contributors. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung der Universität Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 17 14:33:01 1994 Date: 17 Aug 1994 12:28:37 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: mrv@unirsvl.rsvl.unisys.com Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: macros/latex209/contrib/misc/editbar.sty Replaced at ftp.shsu.edu: /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/editbar.sty Prior version: 1.4 (January 27, 1994) Current version: 2.0 (August 17, 1994) Author: Mike Van Geest TeX Drivers Supported: DVIPS General Information: editbar.sty is a LaTeX style to be used to print edit bars (change bars) with PostScript as the final output. DVIPS is the only driver currently supported, but others could be used. Generation of edit bars on one page and/or spanning multiple pages. The output routine of LaTeX is modified to include the edit bar commands to span multiple pages. From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 18 09:46:18 1994 Date: 18 Aug 1994 07:42:14 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: emm@rdt.monash.edu.au Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission On Thu, 18 Aug 1994 09:27:24 +0000, emm@rdt.monash.edu.au (Evan McLean) posted: > This is notification that I have uploaded LatexMk 1.7 to ftp.shsu.edu in > /incoming. The file is latexmk-1.7.tar.Z. > > I know it's not too long since I did 1.6, but there shouldn't be another > version for a little while unless a bug pops up. Thanks for the update. The file has been untar'red and its contents installed to replace those in /tex-archive/support/latexmk/ at SHSU. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Aug 19 11:48:56 1994 Date: 19 Aug 1994 09:32:45 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt/ On Fri, 19 Aug 1994 20:27:45 +0800, vvzhy@joule.phy.ncu.edu.tw (V.V.Zhytnikov) posted: > I've uploaded a couple of LaTeX 2e style files into ftp.shsu.edu > /incoming/cmcyralt > > This files are intended to replace those ones in > /macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt > > Changes: small incompatibility with LaTeX 2e patchlevel 3 has been removed. > > Vadim Zhytnikov (vvzhy@phy.ncu.edu.tw) Thanks for the updaes. The directory has been replaced with the new files provided. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Sat Aug 20 13:02:21 1994 Date: 20 Aug 1994 17:59:55 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: mcite: Combining several BibTeX entries into one \bibitem The LaTeX2e package `mcite' provides support for collapsing multiple citations into one, as custumary in physics journals. For example \cite{foo1,*foo2,bar} will combine the BibTeX entries foo1 and foo2 into a single \bibitem. Obviously, the non-trivial part is that it works with BibTeX. See mcite.dtx for more detailed documentation. CTAN location: macros/latex/contrib/supported/mcite/ Enjoy, -Thorsten -- /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 22 12:33:45 1994 Date: 22 Aug 1994 17:29:59 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: [Koaunghi Un: CTAN Submission] Koaunghi Un (zraun01@hpserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) wrote: ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- I have just put jhtex-0.7.tar.gz in ftp.dante.de:/incoming. It is a upgrade version of jhtex-0.6.tar.gz, which I have uploaded some monthes ago. The content of this package is a complete environment to process Korean document with LaTeX version 2e. Korean documents are written in euc-kr codes(Korean chars) and in JISX(Chinese chars) and a preprocessor "htex" converts them to a LaTeX macros to be processed with LaTeX2e. I have included some Korean fonts to be used freely in this package. I know, the fonts are kept in the directory /tex-archive/fonts but I want it to be placed in the subdirectory of /tex-archive/language/korean/jhtex, because I want to see the fonts first to be tested by the jhtex users. If you do not agree with me, please tell me. Would you like to replace all the files in /tex-archive/language/korean/jhtex with this package. Thank you very much. - -- Koaunghi Un (zraun01@hpserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung. ================================================= ------- end ------- I have installed the package on CTAN in /language/korean/jhtex Thanks a lot -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung der Universität Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de Wed Aug 24 07:20:46 1994 Date: 24 Aug 1994 10:01:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Matthias Eckermann Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ftpmaint@dante.de Subject: INCOMING: Ich habe etwas abgelegt Resent-Date: 24 Aug 1994 12:09:09 +0200 Resent-From: Rainer Schoepf Resent-To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Resent-cc: ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Matthias Eckermann) ud311aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Matthias Eckermann) contributed the following items 1. fonts/dc/tfm // // 00update // % % TFMs for DC_Fonts 24.08.94 % % Matthias Eckermann, Munich, Germany % Some weeks ago I sent the tfm's for the dc-fonts. While computing all the fonts defined in LaTeX2e's t1*.fd for an hplj I found, that there's one font left out by the original dcstdedt.tex: the file dcssdc10.mf is not produced! ~~~~~~~~~~~ So I patched dcstdedt.tex to dclatexe.tex and produced what I needed. There is also a file testdc.tex which I used to test if I really made all (or) most fonts of DC for LaTeX2e. Hope it's helpful - Matthias Eckermann // // ENDE von 00update // //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2. systems/msdos/emtex-fonts/contrib/lj_dc... // // 00readme // % % 300dpi DC_Fonts 24.08.94 % % Matthias Eckermann, Munich, Germany % In some mailing and news lists people wanted PKs for the DC-Fonts, because they could not install them properly. So I produced two FLI-files for 300dpi which can be used by: emTeX's DVIDRV, some DVIPS, XDVI-FLI (LinuX). There is also a file testdc.tex which I used to test if I really made all (or) most fonts of DC for LaTeX2e. Hope it's helpful - Matthias Eckermann P.S.: Please check out the file dc_all.mfj, because it's a hand-made translation of LaTeX2e's t1*.fd-files to mfj. ** ERRARE HUMANUM EST ** // // ENDE von 00readme // Many thanks to him For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung der Universität Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 24 12:42:17 1994 Date: 24 Aug 1994 10:33:54 -0400 (EDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu, peterw@arch.su.edu.au Subject: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 00:20:37 GMT, peterw@arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams) posted to comp.text.tex: > Joao Cachopo (jcachopo@poirot.ist.utl.pt) has uncovered a bug in Version > 2.0.2 (and earlier) of harvard regarding the \citeyear* command. Version > 2.0.3 which fixes this bug is now available for ftp from ftp.arch.su.edu.au > in the file pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3.tar.gz or as separate files in > pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3 (if you already have Version 2.0.2 then you only > need harvard.sty from this directory to fix the bug). I have just mirrored and installed the new files at ftp.shsu.edu so they will propagate properly in macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/ -- I assume that Nelson Beebe will get the updates for his BibTeX collection at Utah and they will be updated in biblio/bibtex/contrib/ accordingly. --George From neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de Wed Aug 24 11:52:11 1994 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:49:35+010 From: Markus Neteler Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu Subject: ctan submission Resent-Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:38:21 +0200 Resent-From: Rainer Schoepf Resent-To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Resent-cc: Markus Neteler Markus Neteler submitted the following item to CTAN: -*- PS4MF -*- Version: 2.2 August 1994 Conversion of Postscript-Type1-fonts to TeX (original cm-encoded metafont-files, no virtual fonts or nfss necessary) DESCRIPTION: In order to use Postscript-Type1-fonts for TeX without any special encoding scheme (like dc,ec,nfss) you now can convert your favourite Postscript-font. This font has to be encoded in the "AdobeStandardEncoding-scheme". This package is based on the ps2mf-package of the authors: Marcel Dings (original idea of the ps2mf-package) and Erik-Jan Vens (new ps2mf). QUALITY OF LETTERS: Fonts made by programs like Adobe(tm), Corel's Wfnboss(tm) and Fontographer (Apple(tm)) seem to be of a better quality than fonts generated by ghostscript's getafm. If you get free or shareware-fonts you should take care of that. WHAT TO DO: (0) Remove the old package ps4mf, if you have. (1) pkunzip -d ps4mf22 (use pkunzip version 2.04e or above) A directory \ps4mf with files and subdirectories will be extracted. (2) Run the converting-batch with fontname as parameter (two fonts for trying out are included). Example: conv_Ado garamond (3) Use the new font in your TeX-documents! (a) By using TeX-command e.g. \newfont{\garamond}{garamond scaled 1000}. or (b) If you want to change fonts generally from computer-modern fontfamily to your favourite postscriptfonts, just declare the new fontnames in the file "newfont.tex". Then every magnification (\large, \Huge etc.) will use your postscript-font. You should move this file into \tex\texinput. Look at texinput\sample1.tex (LaTeX) or texinput\testfont.tex (TeX) for example. (4) If you have generated some metafont-files from postscript with ps4mf12x please delete these .pk-files and convert the .pfb/afm again. I have corrected my conversion-program. ENJOY! WHAT'S NEW: April 1994 Version 1.2 of PS4MF package [...] July 1994 Version 2.1a of PS4MF package - added hint instead: package to create missing .afm's (t1utils.zip/t1tools.zip) - added chapter to ps4mf.doc: SOME INFORMATION ABOUT .afm - added command line switches to \ps4mf\doc\afm2tfm.doc - added version 7.8 of afm2tfm August 1994 Version 2.2 of PS4MF package - corrected ps4mf.doc, added information for getafm-tool NEW VERSIONS OF PS4MFxx.ZIP: You can get the actual version 2.2 of the ps4mf - package at ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de /incoming/tex via anonymous ftp. The package 2.2 is also available at CTAN-servers like ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/tex/systems/msdos/ps4mf Other CTAN-servers: ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan) /CTAN ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX COPYRIGHT: Please read copying.gnu. Please get hints and comments to Markus Neteler email: neteler@laum.uni-hannover.de From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Aug 24 19:00:13 1994 Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:51:58 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: kcb@coyote.caltech.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: submission On Wed, 24 Aug 94 12:20:38 -0700, Kim C. Border posted: > I have submitted a bibliogrpahy style for Econometrica. It is in > /incoming/econometrica/econometrica.bst > > It should probably go in > > tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/economic Thanks for the submission. The file has been installed in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/contrib/econometrica.bst on ftp.shsu.edu with a link to the location you identify since the biblio area runs a higher risk of potential problems due to mirroring error. It is easily available in either location. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 25 04:17:56 1994 Date: 25 Aug 1994 09:09:27 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: randhol@alkymi.unit.no Subject: CTAN Submission Preben Randhol submitted submitted the nohyphen.tex file. He writes: > It is the same file as norhyph.tex, but I have changed it so that it is easier > to install it with babel on other machines (removed the norwegian special characters a > nd replaced the latex codes like \aa \ae \o etc.) > > It should be put in /tex-archive/languages/hyphenation Thanks a lot for this submission For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung der Universität Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 25 10:03:02 1994 Date: 25 Aug 1994 07:58:18 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: minitoc package On Thu, 25 Aug 94 13:33:41 +0200, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert) posted: > I have put a pair of new versions of the minitoc package in > /tex-archive/incoming/minitoc. > > These versions are: > > 17b for LaTeX 209 (but works also with LaTeX 2e) > 20 for LaTeX 2e (incompatible with LaTeX 209) > > The modifications in these versions are: > Correction for appendices in articles. > Correction of vertical spacing. > Correction to accept chapters numbered in roman. > Adds commands to have (default) or suppress > page numbers in minitocs and siblings: > > \mtcpagenumbers \nomtcpagenumbers > \stcpagenumbers \nostcpagenumbers > \ptcpagenumbers \noptcpagenumbers > \mlfpagenumbers \nomlfpagenumbers > \slfpagenumbers \noslfpagenumbers > \plfpagenumbers \noplfpagenumbers > \mltpagenumbers \nomltpagenumbers > \sltpagenumbers \nosltpagenumbers > \pltpagenumbers \nopltpagenumbers > > I thank you for installing these versions, replacing the (not very) old > ones, but I found a very nasty bug in the processing of appendices (a > hidden side effect, which caused problems with appendices in an article). Thanks for your submission as well as your quick attention to the identified problem. The files have been installed at ftp.SHSU.edu in macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ and macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/ of the CTAN tree (/tex-archive at SHSU) for the 2e and 2.09 versions, respectively. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From peterw@arch.su.EDU.AU Wed Aug 24 19:44:08 1994 Date: 25 Aug 1994 08:39:46 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Williams Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu Subject: Re: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package >On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 00:20:37 GMT, peterw@arch.su.edu.au (Peter Williams) >posted to comp.text.tex: >> Joao Cachopo (jcachopo@poirot.ist.utl.pt) has uncovered a bug in Version >> 2.0.2 (and earlier) of harvard regarding the \citeyear* command. Version >> 2.0.3 which fixes this bug is now available for ftp from ftp.arch.su.edu.au >> in the file pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3.tar.gz or as separate files in >> pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.3 (if you already have Version 2.0.2 then you only >> need harvard.sty from this directory to fix the bug). > >I have just mirrored and installed the new files at ftp.shsu.edu so they >will propagate properly in macros/latex/contrib/supported/harvard/ -- I >assume that Nelson Beebe will get the updates for his BibTeX collection at >Utah and they will be updated in biblio/bibtex/contrib/ accordingly. > >--George > Thanks. While I'm here, has any thought been given to integrating the CTAN concept into the World Wide Web? Peter -- Peter Williams |e-mail: peterw@arch.su.edu.au Key Centre for Design Computing |phone: +61-2-692 2053 or +61-2-660 6156 University of Sydney |http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/index.html From beebe@math.utah.edu Thu Aug 25 14:57:46 1994 Date: 25 Aug 1994 11:52:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Nelson H. F. Beebe Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: George D. Greenwade Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu, peterw@arch.su.edu.au Subject: Re: Update of Harvard Bibliographic Package Thanks for the pointer to the new version of the Harvard bibliography styles; the new files have been installed at our local site, and in ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/tex/bibtex. ======================================================================== Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA ======================================================================== From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Aug 25 17:28:24 1994 Date: 25 Aug 1994 15:20:57 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: new cmactex files On Thu, 25 Aug 1994 14:54:05 -0500, Tom Kiffe posted: > I hate to bother you again but I have some more files for > tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. > Some of these are new and some are replacements for existing files. They > are located in incoming/cmactex. Some of the files in tex-archive/ > systems/mac/cmactex will remain as they are. I think that all you need to > do is move these new files to their home, replacing some of the old files > with the new ones. Thanks for the updates and additions. The systems/mac/cmactex/ directory in the CTAN hierarchy at ftp.shsu.edu has been updated to reflect these. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Aug 28 08:50:08 1994 Date: 28 Aug 1994 11:05:39 +0100 From: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Corrupted files in systems/atari/lindner-tex Hi there, at least on ftp.dante.de, two files at the above location are corrupted: latex-plain.zoo multidvi-3.22.zoo I downloaded the files several times, but the results didn't change. I just pulled clean versions from ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/atari/tex/lindner-tex Hope someone can fix this. Keep up the great work! Cheers =8-} Chipsy From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Mon Aug 29 03:37:37 1994 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 08:29:47 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: CJK, hlatex2e, c2cweb14 I want to announce the availability of three version updates: CJK.zip A package to write Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e needs bmf2gf.zip for font installation hlatex2e to write Hangul with LaTeX2e c2cweb14 this program converts C or C++ source code into a CWEB file Werner From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 1 14:37:24 1994 Date: 01 Sep 1994 12:29:59 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: More CMacTeX stuff On Thu, 1 Sep 1994 10:12:29 -0500, Tom Kiffe posted: > I have uploaded in incoming/cmactex four replacement files for CMacTeX. > These files are replacements for the four files of the same name in > tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex. Thanks -- I have just installed the new versions on ftp.shsu.edu. For the record, the four files involved are: Readme.CMacTeX2.2 Readme.Index extensions22.hqx view-print22.hqx --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Sep 2 13:24:59 1994 Date: 02 Sep 1994 11:11:31 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ryoung@utdallas.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission (gTeX updates) On Fri, 2 Sep 1994 12:13:05 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" posted: > I uploaded the following files to /incoming/gtex: > 00readme > emacs.zip > mf.zip > tex.zip > unzip.exe > They should replace files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > > These files include minor updates of gTeX, based on users comments and > error reports. Thanks for the updates. They have been installed at SHSU to replace the files previously in that directory by those names. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Mon Sep 5 18:51:07 1994 Date: 05 Sep 1994 16:47:30 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: LitProg@SHSU.edu, tsl1@CORNELL.EDU Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: Impact 1.1 released On Fri, 02 Sep 1994 20:15:09 +0500, tsl1@cornell.edu (Timothy Larkin) posted: > I am pleased to announce the release of Impact 1.1, a Ctangle processor for > the Macintosh, to the CTAN archive. > > IMPACT is a port of Levy-Knuth CTangle 3.1 to the Macintosh. > > It differs from previous ports in two major ways. First, it runs > persistently, by which I mean that you can tangle as many files as you > like, instead of having to restart the application for each run. Second, > it responds to the 'odoc' Apple Event, so you can tangle a file from any > other application, for instance, your editor, that will send an appropriate > Apple Event. > > Version 1.1 incorporates some important improvements. > > A. An options menu allows control over two features. You can specify the > file extension used for the output file. For instance, I change this to > ``.cp'' when generating C++ files. And you can instruct Tangle to omit all > line and section references. The line references seriously confuse the > Symantec C++ compiler and debugger. > > B. Tangle has been revised to create temporary files, rather than > replacing the previous versions of its output. Impact then compares the > new versions with the previous ones to see if any changes have been made. > Only if a file has changed is it replaced. This feature frees a writer to > include as many output files as he likes in one web file, without paying > the penalty of unnecessary compilations. > > Messageware. Thanks for the update. The files submitted have been installed in tex-archive/web/systems/mac/impact at ftp.shsu.edu and the prior version has been removed. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 6 09:52:16 1994 Date: 06 Sep 1994 07:47:26 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: n.poppelier@elsevier.nl Cc: b.wage@elsevier.nl, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: Elsevier Science LaTeX package on CTAN On Tue, 06 Sep 1994 13:19:32 +0200, "Nico A. F. M. Poppelier" posted: > We have renamed the document styles in the Elsevier Science LaTeX package > to elsart.sty and elsart12.sty. The new files are now available from > ftp.elsevier.nl:pub/sgml. Could you please remove the now obsolete files > espart.sty and espart12.sty, and ask your fellow maintainers to do the > same? Thanks for the notification. The files previously in macros/latex209/contrib/elsevier/ have been removed and replaced by installing the files in pub/styles/ on ftp.elsevier.nl (where I found the files identified in your post). As these are apparently files which still rely solely on LaTeX 2.09 and do not have the more common and obvious LaTeX2e hooks, I have retained them in the macros/latex209 hierarchy. Regards and thanks for your interst in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 6 11:21:33 1994 Date: 06 Sep 1994 09:12:49 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: tvz@zandtwerk.Princeton.EDU, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: RE: ANNOUNCING: Seminar Package for LaTeX2e In <33t26a$ib6@rubb.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (comp.archives, 29 Aug 1994 18:25:46 +0200), tvz@Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) posted: > Hey netters, don't be fooled by LaTeX2e's slides class. It is still lame, > compared to the amazing Seminar package. > > V1.0 of seminar.sty works with LaTeX2e in compatibility mode, but I have > finally added a seminar.cls that works in LaTeX2e's native mode. This is a > minimal modification of seminar.sty, not a new version. The new > distribution is called V1.0e. If you already have v1.0, the only new files > you need are > > seminar.cls semhelv.sty semlcmss.sty > > from > > Princeton.EDU:/pub/tvz/seminar/inputs > > You can also get the entire package (which still includes seminar.sty and > still works with LaTeX 2.09). > > Let me know about any problems. > > Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for making the necessary changes. > > Tim > --- > Timothy Van Zandt (609)258-4050 tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail) > Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 I have mirrored and installed the new files to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/ at ftp.shsu.edu and linked these files back to their earlier location in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/seminar/ Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 7 12:28:27 1994 Date: 07 Sep 1994 10:22:01 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ etc. On Wed, 7 Sep 94 10:29:10 +0200, Jean-Pierre Drucbert posted: > I have found two typos in the minitoc package (version 20, for LaTeX2e), > one in minitoc.sty itself (using \mtc in place of mtc as name for a > counter) and one in the documentation (a \verb in the middle of the > argument of \emph). So I put the corrected package (version 21) in > /tex-archive/incoming, file minitoc21.tar.gz. Your submission has been installed to replace the previous contents of tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ on ftp.SHSU.edu (as individual files). > I have also noted that a antique version of minitoc.sty subsist in > .../macros/latex209/contrib/misc and should be eradicated (I just did > ``quote site index minitoc.sty'' and found 3 versions, as only 2 are valid > (209 and 2e)). Thanks for pointing this out -- the files tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/minitoc.sty tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/minitoc-test.tex have been removed from ftp.SHSU.edu. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Sep 7 07:54:43 1994 Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 12:45:28 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Korean fonts I uploaded a complete library of 6 Korean fonts containing the usual TeX font sizes. This emTeX-font library is for 300dpi devices; also included are tools to extract the fonts/rebuild the library. Werner PS.: at the moment the library is at ftp.dante.de in /incoming; it should be available in /fonts/korean. From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 7 18:54:06 1994 Date: 07 Sep 1994 16:50:15 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tom.Kiffe@math.tamu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CMacTeX files On Wed, 7 Sep 1994 15:00:05 -0500, Tom Kiffe posted: > I have just uploaded in incoming/cmactex eight replacement files for > CMacTeX. They should replace eight of the existing files in > tex-archive/systems/mac/ cmactex having the same names as these. Thanks. The affected files are: dvips22.hqx dvipsppc.hqx metafont22.hqx metafontppc.hqx tex22.hqx texppc.hqx texutil22.hqx view-print22.hqx which have been installed to replace the prior versions of these in tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex on ftp.shsu.edu. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From wscoas@win.tue.nl Fri Sep 9 08:17:50 1994 Date: 09 Sep 1994 13:15:01 +0200 From: Anton A. Stoorvogel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: xdvik installation Dear experts, I have installed xdvik on my SUN OS Release 4.1.3. Everything compiled quite easily, previewing works including the rendering of postscript pictures but: it does not call MakeTeXPK when a font is missing. I added -DMAKETEXPK in DEFS and also tried +maketexpk as a command line option. Neither one called MakeTeXPK. The MakeTeXPK is in my path and in the same directory as the xdvi executable. What stupid oversight of mine is causing this problem. Before I forget I am of course installing version 1.8 straight from the CTAN archives. Best regards, Anton Dr. A.A. Stoorvogel Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Tel. +31-40-450266 Fax. +31-40-465995 E-mail. wscoas@win.tue.nl From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Sep 10 11:57:45 1994 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 94 16:41:24 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@dante.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: submission of Korean mf sources I just uploaded at ftp.dante.de a package of six Korean fonts (hlatex_mf.tar.gz) as metafont sources. It should be soon in fonts/korean/mf or something similar. The were originally uploaded at cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr, the main host for Korean related software. These fonts were reengineered from .pk fonts; nevertheless, the quality is not too bad. The file lj_han.zip (in fonts/korean) is a standard representation for 300dpi printers. Werner From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 12 05:04:51 1994 Date: 12 Sep 1994 09:59:32 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Werner Lemberg Cc: ctan-mgr@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@DANTE.DE, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: submission of Korean mf sources Werner Lemberg writes: > > I just uploaded at ftp.dante.de a package of six Korean fonts > (hlatex_mf.tar.gz) as metafont sources. It should be soon in fonts/korean/mf Installed there. > These fonts were reengineered from .pk fonts; nevertheless, the quality > is not too bad. The file lj_han.zip (in fonts/korean) is a standard > representation for 300dpi printers. These files have been moved to fonts/korean/pk -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 13 16:41:59 1994 Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:45:00 +0100 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Followup-To: sender Subject: Re: UK CTAN node corruption In article <353s0i$iq5@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, earlier today, wrote: >We had a power cut in Cambridge last night (at around 1700 BST). This >caused a temporary blip in the operation of the archive, but more >significantly has left several directories corrupt on the disc. > >[...] > >Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. At approximately 18:30 BST today, 13 September 1994, we rebooted the archive machine with a new disc and a reconstructed archive. We believe that all the corruption that occurred last night is now corrected; however, any user having problems with the UK CTAN node is urged (as usual) to report them by email to ctan_uk@tex.ac.uk, *NOT* to comp.text.tex (which gets more than enough traffic as it is). From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 14 17:24:12 1994 Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:31:51 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: b.wage@elsevier.nl Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: elsevier.sty On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 11:34:34 +0000, b.wage@elsevier.nl (Bart Wage) posted: > As the coordinator for the LaTeX project in Amterdam I would like to ask > you a favour. (I have recently taken over this job from Nico Poppelier, > who is getting more and more involved in other projects.) > > Browsing through the CTAN directories, I encountered a file > > 1993/08/03 | 5903 | macros/latex209/contrib/misc/elsevier.sty > > that really shouldn't be there, in my view - at least not with that name. > It is a style (for submitting book contributions to us) written by someone > who does not work for Elsevier. I would appreciate if you would delete > this file from the server. Thanks for pointing this out. Definitely that name is in conflict and definitely Elsevier has made publicly-available styles for this purpose following true house design. This file has been removed from the CTAN collection. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Wed Sep 14 16:38:24 1994 Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:43:25 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: orlandini@botes1.tesre.bo.cnr.it Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: New version of SHADOW.STY On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:15:23 +0200, orlandini@botes1.tesre.bo.cnr.it (M.Orlandini - TeSRE/CNR Tel:(051) 639-8667) posted: > you will find below a new version of my SHADOW.STY. The modification > arrived to me from Mike Piff, who noted that the shadowed box, when > in-lined, aligns with the baseline. He added a \vtop command in order to > align the text inside the box, and not the box itself. Thanks for the update. It has been installed to replace the prior version in macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shadow.sty at ftp.shsu.edu. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 13:57:46 1994 Date: 15 Sep 1994 11:52:57 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ryoung@utdallas.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: CTAN Submission On Thu, 15 Sep 1994 12:49:16 -0500, "Young U. Ryu" posted: > I uploaded: > amspell.zip > 00readme > which should replace amspell.zip and 00readme in > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > Now, new amspell.zip includes various dictionaries, such as 2 US dicts, UK > dict, general English dict, French dict, Italian dict, German dict, and > Dutch dict. > > 00readme has been improved. Thanks for the updates. The files have been installed to replace the former ones at SHSU, as requested. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 15:59:18 1994 Date: 15 Sep 1994 13:53:19 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ilya@math.mit.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, beebe@math.utah.edu Subject: biblio/bibtex/utils/mathsci2bibtex and support/tex2mail On Wed, 14 Sep 1994 18:00:21 -0400 (EDT), Ilya Zakharevich posted: > The mathsci2bibtex utility makes more than advertises, it will work with > any reference database in SilverPlatter format. Installed in tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/mathsci2bibtex/ on ftp.shsu.edu. > The tex2mail utility is more tricky. I am scared to call it tex2ascii, I > do not like the discussion on c.l.t generated by demands like that. > However, this name would describe better what it does, and I find it very > useful for posting math in mail. Installed in tex-archive/support/tex2mail/ on the same host. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Sep 15 16:10:37 1994 Date: 15 Sep 1994 14:00:21 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: TJALLEN@wishep.physics.wisc.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: macros/phyzzx/phyzzx.plus On Wed, 14 Sep 94 18:22 CDT, TED ALLEN posted: > I have put the file phyzzx.plus into the /incoming directory. This macro > is a supplement to the phyzzx macro from Stanford University. It allows > the use of a draft mode and a two-page-per-sheet output, similar to > harvmac.tex. It also contains some macros appended to the end of the file > useful for making labels. I suggest that it be put in the > /tex-archive/macros/phyzzx/ subdirectory. The file contains some > documentation on how to use it at the beginning. Thanks for the submission. The file has been installed on ftp.shsu.edu in /tex-archive/macros/phyzzx/phyzzx.plus Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Sep 20 10:35:25 1994 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 15:10:49 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, soft-authors@ifcss.org Subject: Announcement: CJK 2.0 (Chin./Japan./Kor.) for LaTeX2e I've just uploaded CJK.zip to ftp.shsu.edu. New in this version: much simplified .fd-files and Hangul support without preprocessor. Here is the readme file: This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK.zip Version 2.0 (15-Sep-1994) =================================================================== It contains the following files: CJK.txt This file CJK.sty A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e CJK.enc Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and Korean) standard.enc Bg5.enc hangul.enc pmCsmall.enc pmCbig.enc Encoding scheme files Uhangul.fd Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts UBg5.fd UGBs.fd UGBt.fd Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!) UpmC-Bg5.fd UpmC-GBs.fd UpmC-GBt.fd Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts vf/*.vf tfm/*.tfm virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to use in combination with lj_han.zip and lj_han1.zip (available at the CTAN hosts) This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. ************************************** * The .fd files have been changed! * ************************************** Use --- Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} . A new environment \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} is defined; encoding the following coding schemes are currently implemented in CJK.enc: Bg5 (Big5) GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters) GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters) hangul (only hangul syllables and elements, no hanja). It's very easy to add different encoding schemes. For compatibility with the pmC package three additional encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with bmf2gf (see below) to CJK-encodings. shape It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your site; look at the example .fd-files how to create appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the hangul environment, this parameter is unused (see below). This is a very realistic example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{kai} ... Text in GuoBiao encoding ... \end{CJK} How it works ------------ Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5, JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and 0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding. CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you should inactivate those characters not needed to be active in a special encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty). The encodings ------------- CJK.sty defines \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@hangulEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding. \CJK@standardEncoding should be used for encodings with the second byte in the range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS etc). \CJK@Bg5Encoding should be used for Big5 encodings (e.g. ETen fonts) with the second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. \CJK@hangulEncoding is a special (and slightly modified) case of \CJK@standardEncoding, containing only values for hangul syllables and elements. \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall (this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC) package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu). The fonts --------- CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC: o TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts), whereas LaTeX2e loads three fonts normally. o As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes) --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the same time. In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows the use of more than 256 TeX fonts. o You need not to care about the right size of the CJK fonts in footnotes etc. It will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes except font series will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape). For font selection in a hangul environment see below. Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or more), I recommend bmf2gf to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24 size (as most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them using bmf2gf but only with integer magnifications. If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3). Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX fonts with 256 characters each. An example: GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt: ^ ^ ^^ ^^ first byte second byte TeX font offset ---------------------------------------------- 0xA1 0xA1-OxFE gsso1201 0 0xA2 0xA1-0xFE gsso1201 94 0xA3 0xA1-0xE4 gsso1201 188 0xA3 0xE5-0xFE gsso1202 0 0xA4 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 26 0xA5 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 120 . . . 0xFE 0xA1-OxFE gsso1235 38 To create such splitted fonts you should use the package bmf2gf.zip (written by me) which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I upload my TeX packages to the CTAN hosts). Big5 encoded fonts are a bit more complicated to convert because of a gap in the range of the second byte: 0x7F-0xA0 is not used. Additionally some of the possible code points are unused --- I've written hbf2bmf (contained in bmf2gf.zip) which converts HBF fonts into BMF files bmf2gf can understand. For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF (Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document the fonts completely. Korean input ------------ (The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening here :-) There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex. The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters), which some editors may confuse; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is not. In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts. CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with Chinese or Japanese. If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers. To use the hangul environment, say \begin{CJK}{hangul}{} ... \end{CJK} . These font switches are available inside the environment: fonts from hLaTeX: * \mj MyoungJo \gt Gothic \gs BootGulssi \gr Graphic \dr Dinaru fonts from jhTeX: * \hgt Hangul Gothic * \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) * \hpg Hangul Pilgi \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available. You will find the fonts in the lj_han.zip and lj_han1.zip packages. These are emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory, and archaic hangul elements are still missing. The .fd-files ------------- It is now possible to define CJK fonts as easy as normal TeX fonts! CJK.sty defines three new size commands: CJK corresponds to `' (empty) CJKfixed corresponds to fixed sCJKfixed corresponds to sfixed . The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts. If you say as an example \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07} , LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0771 if the font size is 6, 7 or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros; the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value. See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally. To use CJK fonts as defined in older versions of CJK, you must rename all .pk and .tfm files and exchange subfont and size values: old name: b5so017 new name: b5so0701 b5so027 b5so0702 . . . . . . Caveats ------- o You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment, but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...). The CJK package has an optional argument which controls the scope of CJK environments: global \lccode, \uccode, \catcode and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most economical mode concerning save size, but you can't have CJK environments inside of CJK environments or other environments which manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE. Packages which change some of the above values only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not work after the first use of a CJK environment. local Only \lccode and \uccode will be modified globally. This is the default. You can stack environments. encapsulated If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working correctly, you must use this option. All values mentioned above will be local, so you can stack environments. This option probably causes an overflow of the save size. Say \usepackage[option]{CJK} to activate 'option'. o There is an other way to overcome the above problem: CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at the same line, you must use these macros. An example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song} ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt} ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai} ... Text in GBt kai ... \end{CJK} o The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5 encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters are ( and ) respectively. An example: \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song} \begin{Bg5text} .... /begin(center) .... /end(center) .... /end(Bg5text) \end{CJK} o Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment which write something in an external file (commands like \chapter etc.). To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside the Bg5text environment. o If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or } outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar macro manually: \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}} The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation. o You can't use Big5 characters in any command which uses \uppercase or \lowercase, i.e. \chapter, \article etc. --- this affects all standard document classes, which convert page headers to uppercase. It's possible to overcome this restriction by substituting all affected Big5 characters with the appropriate \CJKchar, i.e. for \uppercase characters with the second byte in the range to a-z (and A-Z for \lowercase respectively). A quick and dirty solution to disable \uppercase is to say \let\uppercase\relax before \begin{document}, but be aware that some commands like \Roman will behave unexpectedly. The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands. o The same holds for ALL CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF. Possible errors --------------- o If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the linefeed character with a trailing `%', otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. o If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you should insert a \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese characters after closing the CJK environment. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; default value is \hskip 0pt plus 0.8pt . o If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{...} ....}, you should write \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding} instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above. Author ------ Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet) Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. From zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 20 18:11:29 1994 Date: 20 Sep 1994 23:00:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e-Kurzanleitung > Die Anpassung der LaTeX-Kurzbeschreibung an LaTeX2e ist nun fertig. Das > sch"one Werk steht zur Zeit im incoming-Verzeichnis auf ftp.dante.de und > soll im Laufe der Woche seinen Platz auf den CTAN-Servern finden (in > tex-archive/info/LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung). The German document 'LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung' is now available on ftp.dante.de (and tomorrow on the other CTAN servers) in the directory tex-archive/info/LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung. The files are 16546 Sep 17 18:59 l2k1.tex 34369 Sep 17 18:40 l2k2.tex 14458 Sep 17 19:08 l2k3.tex 12901 Sep 17 18:50 l2k4.tex 11084 Aug 31 16:52 l2ksym.tex 137216 Sep 19 17:51 l2kurz.dvi 7487 Sep 17 19:06 l2kurz.tex Reinhard -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295 Fax: -241 From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Sep 20 12:59:26 1994 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 17:54:02 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: A second Korean font library I just uploaded lj_han1.zip to ftp.shsu.edu . Here is the readme file Werner This is the Korean font package lj_han1.zip (15-Sept-1994) ========================================================== lj_han1.zip contains the following files: lj_han1.txt this file lj_han1.fli emTeX font library containing the Korean fonts of the jhTeX package (resulution 300dpi): Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) (hmjmA, hmjmB) Hangul MyoungJo bold (MunHwaBu fonts) (hmjbA, hmjbB) Hangul Gothic (hgtmA, hgtmB) Hangul Gothic bold (hgtbA, hgtbB) Hangul Pilgi (hpgmA, hpgmB) Hangul Pilgi bold (hpgbA, hpgbB) Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) (holA, holB) in the sizes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.95, 12, 14.4, 17.28, 20.74, 24.88 pt *.tfm Metric files for the above fonts And for the experienced user: ilf_lj.bat for DOS ilf_lj.cmd for OS/2: unpack a font library using the emTeX fontlib program ilf_lj.rsp response file for fli_lj.cmd All metafont sources are in the jhTeX package. This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. Installation ------------ Move the lj_han1.fli file into a directory which is found by the dvi-driver. Edit the dvi-driver configuration file (usually lj.cnf) to include lj_han1.fli as a font library. Move all .tfm-files into a tfm-directory found by emTeX. Use --- There are two ways to use these fonts: o get the CJK package (Version 2.0 or higher) for LaTeX2e. No preprocessor needed --- virtual fonts are used instead. o get jhTeX. You will need a preprocessor (included). Supports hanja also. Author ------ Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet) Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. N.B.: I can't speak any Korean :-) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 20 19:07:24 1994 Date: 20 Sep 1994 23:03:34 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de, zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Subject: Re: LaTeX2e-Kurzanleitung Reinhard Zierke writes: > The German document 'LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung' is now available on > ftp.dante.de (and tomorrow on the other CTAN servers) [...] Fwiw, it won't be on ftp.tex.ac.uk (and presumably not on ftp.shsu.edu, either, though I'm not privy to that information). CTAN archives verify the names of those submitting installation messages; Reinhard's name doesn't appear on our list, so his installation message was ignored, and the files weren't copied here. -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 20 19:31:10 1994 Date: 20 Sep 1994 17:22:47 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: language/[chinese][korean]/CJK On Tue, 20 Sep 94 14:53:09 MEZ, Werner Lemberg posted: > files: CJK.txt > CJK.zip (sent as CKJ.zip.second_try) > > destination: languages\chinese\CJK > > please make a soft link from languages\korean to these files also > > Please retain uppercase as file names! CJK is the abbreviation used by > Unicode 1.1 (and ISO 10646). > > I further beg you to remove the older version of CJK and, additionally, > hlatex2e in the languages\korean directory. It worked only with beta > versions of LaTeX2e and is now superseded by CJK. The files have been removed, installed, linked, as requested at ftp.shsu.edu. Given the ISO nature of the request, this is what I would deem an acceptable exception to the lowercase standard otherwise employed on the CTAN. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Sep 20 19:38:14 1994 Date: 20 Sep 1994 17:35:14 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: fonts/korean/pk/lj_han On Tue, 20 Sep 94 17:48:13 MEZ, Werner Lemberg posted: > lj_han1.zip > lj_han1.txt > > destination: > > languages\korean\pk These files have been installed to replace the ones already in fonts/korean/pk/lj_han* -- I assumed the dates and similarity in names suggested this as the superior placement. Should this be in error, please contact me directly and changes can be accommodated. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Sep 22 03:44:18 1994 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 08:34:05 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-authors@ifcss.org, CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: bmf2gf 1.1 The new version now contains hbf2bmf, a utility to convert bitmap fonts with hbf headers into bitmaps bmf2gf can understand. Werner [ bmf2gf will convert large bitmap fonts into TeX .pk fonts needed by the CJK LaTeX2e and pmC TeX macro packages ] From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 23 07:00:24 1994 Date: 23 Sep 1994 10:53:43 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Subject: David Carlisle: symbols.tex I have replaced the file 200-1992/09/21 | 17594 | info/symbols.tex on CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk now, other archives RSN) with an expanded LaTeX2e version from David Carlisle. The file lists all math[s] symbols (easily) available within LaTeX2e. David also said: please delete the old copy macros/latex209/contrib/ misc/symbols.tex I've duly done that; it was the same file as that in directory info -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Sep 23 17:33:03 1994 Date: 23 Sep 1994 15:29:01 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: fonts/tengwar/ On Thu, 22 Sep 1994 14:12:28 -0700, Michael P Urban posted: > I have uploaded tengwar.tar.gz to the shsu CTAN server. It replaces the > 8-year-old fonts/tengwar directory contents. Thanks. The files in fonts/tengwar/ have been replaced with the ones submitted. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 29 13:53:44 1994 Date: 29 Sep 1994 17:48:54 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e 1994/06/01 patchlevel 4 released The LaTeX programming team announces the availability of patchlevel 4 of the current (1994/06/01) release of LaTeX2e. As usual, you can get it ,from any CTAN host, in directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/{base,unpacked} where base contains the full distribution in packed form, whereas unpacked contains the stripped/unpacked files. For more information on CTAN, try finger ctan_us@pip.shsu.edu Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/06/01> patch level 4 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1994/09/23) %%% pr/884 Missing % causes extra space in picture-mode \savebox. %%% (from ltboxes.dtx) %%% pr/872 Redefining the catcodes of [ and ] turned out to be %%% dangerous (surprise surprise :-) For the LaTeX programming team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 30 08:19:42 1994 Date: 30 Sep 1994 12:09:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Tim Love , Terry Bohning Subject: ieeetr.sty Tim Love alerted me to the fact that there were corrupt copies of ieeetr.sty on CTAN in directories macros/latex209/contrib/ieee and .../contrib/misc The files had been corrupted by wrapping the end of comment lines without inserting extra % markers I have installed a corrected version of the file (courtesy of Tim Love) in .../contrib/ieee, and have deleted the duplicate in .../contrib/misc Robin -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 2 13:57:59 1994 Date: 02 Oct 1994 17:55:24 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: symbols.tex and the stmaryrd fonts David Carlisle has submitted another version (for LaTeX2e) of the file symbols.tex. He says: ------- Forwarded Message This version contains tables supplied by Alexander Holt detailing the stmaryrd font of math symbols (if you have the latex2e package for them installed). could you put this in info in the main ctan tree. ------- End of Forwarded Message I have duly installed the file in info/symbols.tex I have also installed the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/ stmaryrd, which is now a link to fonts/stmaryrd (which has contained LaTeX2e macros for some time). The directory macros/latex209/contrib/stmary is hereby superseded, and its README has been updated to reflect its change of status. The authors (David Carlisle and Alan Jeffrey) hardly need reminding of the continuing gratitude that the LaTeX community has for their work! Robin -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 2 14:19:35 1994 Date: 02 Oct 1994 18:17:40 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Ivan A Derzhanski: TengTeX in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: I've just put the five files making up the TengTeX 1.00 package on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the directory incoming. (The package is a collection of macros for the (La)TeX typesetting in JRR Tolkien's Elvish languages.) The five files are: Tira_ni Description. tengtex.tex TeX style sheet. tengtex.sty LaTeX style sheet. tengdoc.tex User's manual in LaTeX. vanda.tex Quasi-copyright oath. - --Ivan A Derzhanski I've added this text as a README file, and installed the whole in macros/latex209/contrib/tengtex, with a link to macros/plain/contrib/ tengtex Thanks to Ivan for providing this material. Robin Fairbairns -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 3 07:00:24 1994 Date: 03 Oct 1994 10:54:50 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: usergrps/uktug I have created a CTAN directory to hold information about the UK TeX Users Group, which is already available on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will be shortly on the other CTAN sites and mirrors. The path is tex-archive/usergrps/uktug As yet, it only contains a brief introduction and membership forms, but other information may appear on it in the near future. Robin -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Mon Oct 3 11:27:03 1994 Date: Mon, 03 Oct 94 15:08:32 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ANN@shsu.edu, soft-authors@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, Lee Chun-Yu Subject: CJK 2.1 out (Chin/Kor/Jap for LaTeX2e) In one or two days the new CJK package is available from the CTAN hosts. You will find the package unzipped in language/chinese/CJK. Use the CTAN packing functions to compress it again during ftp. new: CJK* environment added: space after CJK characters will be swallowed Utility programs hbf2hbf and hbf2cjk added [hbf2cjk is a patched version of hbf2pk to support CJK encoding] changed: new Big5 encoded fonts needed (more compressed) - saves about 12 TeX subfonts per Big5 encoded font pmC emulation will now use compatible font names, i.e. wcb5a1, wcb5a2 etc. Appended you will find the readme file. Happy TeXing! Werner Lemberg This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK.zip Version 2.1 (28-Sep-1994) =================================================================== It contains the following files: CJK.txt This file CJK.sty A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e CJK.enc Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and Korean) standard.enc Bg5.enc hangul.enc pmCsmall.enc pmCbig.enc Encoding scheme files Bg5.chr standard.chr pmC.chr Character encoding files Uhangul.fd Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts UBg5.fd UGBs.fd UGBt.fd Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!) UpmC-Bg5.fd UpmC-GBs.fd UpmC-GBt.fd Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts vf/*.vf tfm/*.tfm virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1 (available at the CTAN hosts) utils/hbf2cjk.c Source file for hbf2cjk (at the moment only for UNIX) utils/hbf2hbf.w CWEB source file for hbf2hbf utils/hbf.h utils/hbf.c Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions) utils/Makefile Makefile for hbf2hbf utils/Makefile.hbf2cjk Makefile for hbf2cjk (only for UNIX) This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. ************************************** * The .fd files have been changed! * ************************************** Use --- Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} . Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and \begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined: encoding the following coding schemes are currently implemented in CJK.enc: Bg5 (Big5) GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters) GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters) hangul (only hangul syllables and elements, no hanja). It's very easy to add different encoding schemes. For compatibility with the pmC package three additional encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with bmf2gf or hbf2cjk (see below) to CJK-encodings. shape It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your site; look at the example .fd-files how to create appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the hangul environment, this parameter is unused (see below). CJK* will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character, whereas CJK will not. This is a very realistic example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{kai} ... Text in GuoBiao encoding ... \end{CJK} How it works ------------ Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5, JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and 0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding. CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you should inactivate those characters not needed to be active if you add a new encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty). The encodings ------------- CJK.sty defines \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@hangulEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding. \CJK@standardEncoding should be used for encodings with the second byte in the range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS etc). \CJK@Bg5Encoding should be used for Big5 encodings (e.g. ETen fonts) with the second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. \CJK@hangulEncoding is a special (and slightly modified) case of \CJK@standardEncoding, containing only values for hangul syllables and elements. \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall (this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC) package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu). The fonts --------- CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC: o TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts), whereas LaTeX2e loads three fonts normally. o As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes) --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the same time. In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows the use of more than 256 TeX fonts. o You need not to care about the right size of the CJK fonts in footnotes etc. It will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape). For font selection in a hangul environment see below. Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or more), I recommend bmf2gf to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24 size (as most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them using bmf2gf but only with integer magnifications. If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3). Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX fonts with 256 characters each. An example: GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt: ^ ^ ^^ ^^ first byte second byte TeX font offset ---------------------------------------------- 0xA1 0xA1-OxFE gsso1201 0 0xA2 0xA1-0xFE gsso1201 94 0xA3 0xA1-0xE4 gsso1201 188 0xA3 0xE5-0xFE gsso1202 0 0xA4 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 26 0xA5 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 120 . . . 0xFE 0xA1-OxFE gsso1235 38 To create such splitted fonts you can use the package bmf2gf (written by me) which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I upload my TeX packages to the CTAN hosts). Enclosed here in the CJK package you will find the CWEB source code of the program hbf2hbf which you should use instead of hbf2bmf of the bmf2gf package. The latter only supports the Big5 encoding scheme of CJK versions before 2.1 . hbf2hbf converts HBF fonts into BMF files (plus a HBF header file) bmf2gf can understand. See the next section for the syntax. To make hbf2hbf, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and the CWEB package. For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF (Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document the CJK fonts completely. Using hbf2cjk ------------- If bmf2gf does not satisfy you, try hbf2cjk. This program is a patched version of HBFtoPK written by S. Simpson . To execute hbf2cjk, you additionally need pnmscale and pgmtopbm of the pbmplus package and pbmtopk. Consider this as a beta version which works unmodified only under UNIX. hbf2cjk is much more slower than bmf2gf - it will call pnmscale and pgmtopbm for each character. The advantage is that you can scale the fonts with any (reasonable) value. To make hbf2cjk, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make. Say `make TARGET -fMakefile.hbf2cjk', where TARGET can be `unix' or `unixdebug'. You should first convert your original CJK font and HBF header with hbf2hbf into a temporary font file and HBF header: Syntax: hbf2hbf output_font_name_without_extension input_HBF_header Then call hbf2cjk to build the needed TeX subfonts: Syntax: hbf2cjk HBF_file fontname resolution family encoding The `font' parameter corresponds to \CJKshape; `family' and `encoding' will appear as identifiers in the .tfm files. An example: input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf program calls: hbf2hbf temp jfs56.hbf hbf2cjk temp.hbf gsfs13 300 "Jianti FanSong" "Big5" output files: gsfs1301.300pk - gsfs1332.300pk gsfs1301.tfm - gsfs1332.tfm [gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style] ^ ^ ^ ^ It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if you need two characters as a running number... Korean input ------------ (The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening here :-) There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex. The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters), which some editors may confuse; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is not. In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts. CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with Chinese or Japanese. If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers. To use the hangul environment, say \begin{CJK}{hangul}{} ... \end{CJK} . These font switches are available inside the environment: fonts from hLaTeX: * \mj MyoungJo (default) \gt Gothic \gs BootGulssi \gr Graphic \dr Dinaru fonts from jhTeX: * \hgt Hangul Gothic * \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) * \hpg Hangul Pilgi \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available. You will find the fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory, and archaic hangul elements are still missing. The .fd-files ------------- It is now possible to define CJK fonts as easy as normal TeX fonts! CJK.sty defines four new size commands: CJK corresponds to `' (empty) sCJK corresponds to s CJKfixed corresponds to fixed sCJKfixed corresponds to sfixed . The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts. If you say as an example \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07} , LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7 or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros; the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (for pmC emulation, \CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers). See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally. To use CJK fonts as defined in older versions of CJK, you must rename all .pk and .tfm files and exchange subfont and size values: old name: b5so017 new name: b5so0701 b5so027 b5so0702 . . . . . . Caveats ------- o You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment, but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...). The CJK package has an optional argument which controls the scope of CJK environments: global \lccode, \uccode, \catcode and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most economical mode concerning save size, but you can't have CJK environments inside of CJK environments or other environments which manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE. Packages which change some of the above values only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not work after the first use of a CJK environment. local Only \lccode and \uccode will be modified globally. This is the default. You can stack environments. encapsulated If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working correctly, you must use this option. All values mentioned above will be local, so you can stack environments. This option probably causes an overflow of the save size. Say \usepackage[option]{CJK} to activate 'option'. o There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments. CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at the same output line, you must use these macros. An example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song} ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt} ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai} ... Text in GBt kai ... \end{CJK} As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their active meaning. o The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5 encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters are ( and ) respectively. An example: \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song} \begin{Bg5text} .... /begin(center) .... /end(center) .... /end(Bg5text) \end{CJK} To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside the Bg5text environment. o Instead of using the Bg5text environment, you can protect the offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\. This will not increase the readability of the Chinese text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will not be expanded. o Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter etc.). o If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or } outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar macro manually: \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}} The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation. o You can't use Big5 characters in any command which uses \uppercase or \lowercase, i.e. \chapter, \article etc. --- this affects all standard document classes, which convert page headers to uppercase. It's possible to overcome this restriction by substituting all affected Big5 characters with the appropriate \CJKchar, i.e. for \uppercase characters with the second byte in the range to a-z (and A-Z for \lowercase respectively). A quick and dirty solution to disable \uppercase is to say \let\uppercase\relax before \begin{document}, but be aware that some commands like \Roman will behave unexpectedly. The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands. o The same holds for ALL CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF. o You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example, use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen). LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK character affected in verbatim environments. Possible errors --------------- o If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment, otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side, say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a space after a CJK character. o If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you should insert a \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese characters after closing the CJK environment. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; default value is \hskip 0pt plus 0.8pt . A \discretionary will be inserted by CJK before a Chinese character, and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation. o If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{...} ....}, you should write \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding} instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above. Author ------ Werner Lemberg (A7621GAC@awiuni11.bitnet) Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 4 09:46:17 1994 Date: 04 Oct 1994 12:57:52 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk Subject: vector package for latex2e macros/latex/contrib/supported/vector The vector package provides a set of macros for more convenient representation of vectors in LaTeX2e, both symbolically and as implicit or explicit rows/columns of elements. To install, simply run TeX on vector.ins, then move vector.sty to somewhere in your TEXINPUTS path. Run LaTeX on vector.drv to produce documentation. Note: this is my first package for LaTeX2e. There is undoubtedly room for improvement, and suggestions emailed to nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk will be gratefully received... Nick Efford September 1994 From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct 4 16:53:48 1994 Date: 04 Oct 1994 14:42:05 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: minitoc On Tue, 4 Oct 94 09:52:27 +0100, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert) posted: > I have put a complete set of the two versions (209 and 2e) of the minitoc > package. These are NOT new versions, but I have corrected errors in the > test documents minitoc-ex.tex and mini-art.tex. The errors were a false > title comment in mini-art.tex and, worse, the use of \documentstyle in > place of \documentclass in mini-art.tex and minitoc-ex.tex (in the LaTeX2e > version). > > Thanks for your help. Sincerely yours, > > Jean-Pierre Drucbert > drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Thanks for the updates. The files in macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc and macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc have been updated accordingly at ftp.SHSU.edu. Regards and thanks again for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct 4 16:55:46 1994 Date: 04 Oct 1994 14:52:08 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: piet@cs.ruu.nl Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: fancyheadings upload On Tue, 4 Oct 1994 17:50:33 +0100, Piet van Oostrum posted: > I have uploaded a new version of fancyheadings.sty (to be placed in > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings) in > incoming/fancyheadings on ftp.shsu.edu, together with a new documentation > (fancyheadings.tex) and two extra files extramarks.sty and fixmarks.sty > that are also described in the doc. > > Please remove the old fancyheadings.doc file. The files have completely replaced the prior ones in macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings/ on ftp.shsu.edu > fixmarks.sty replaces the old > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/fixhead.sty but please keep it > with fancyheadings (fixhead was just the wrong name, maybe a symbolic link > is in order) The old fixheads.sty has been removed from macros/latex209/contrib/misc and a link to have fixmarks.sty present in that directory has been made. > By the way, the incoming dir on ftp.dante.de is write protected. Thanks for the information -- consider it reported. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 7 13:27:08 1994 Date: 07 Oct 1994 17:09:59 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk, tobias@dmu.ac.uk Subject: acronym, showlabels SHOWLABELS macros/latex/contrib/showlabels >From Norman Gray This class option introduces no new commands, it just helps you keep track of all the labels by putting the name of the new label into the margin whenever either the |\label| or the |\@eqnnum| commands is used. There are therefore no usage instructions. You invoke this package with the command |\usepackage{showlabels}| in the preamble, and you may give the options |[inner]| or |[outer]| (the default) to have the labels placed in the inner or outer margin of the text. ACRONYM macros/latex/contrib/acronym Tobias Oetiker I'd like to announce the availability of my LaTeX2e acronym Package from CTAN. When writing a paper on cellular mobile radio I started to used a lot of acronyms. This can be very disturbing for the reader, as he might not know all the used acronyms. To help the reader I kept a list of all the acronyms at the end of my paper. This package makes sure, that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out in full at least once. And it provides an environment to keep a list of acronyms. Somewhere in the document. From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 7 13:28:17 1994 Date: 07 Oct 1994 17:13:42 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: GOOSSENS@cernvm.cern.ch, malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch Subject: CM PS Type1 fonts (new) [ i have moved the elements of the old Paradissa collection that are *not* covered by BaKoMa to fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa and put the new stuff in fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma. i hope this arrangement is acceptable to Basil Sebastian ] This is first part of the BaKoMa Fonts Collection. This package includes 88 basic fonts of the Computer Modern font family which were designed by D.E.Knuth. Fonts are in the ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM+PFM) and in the TrueType font format (TTF). This font package have been produced from Knuth's METAFONT scripts by using original algorithms developed by collection author. I would not like to mix these fonts with Paradissa Fonts Collection (PFC) because there is several differences: 1. These Fonts were produced by principally different algorithms then that which used for PFC creation. 2. This package includes only Computer Modern family with AMS extention of mathematical fonts (such fonts as cmbsy, cmex, cmmib, have more optical sizes). 3. Characters in these fonts have other widthes then in fonts of PFC. These widthes are defined in fractions of adobe units which can not be work with some programs. 4. All fonts in this package have double-encoding feature. I.e. different software will find characters in different positions without additional font reencoding (see file 'BaKoMa.fonts'). 5. This package includes Type1 and TrueType versions of fonts while PFC includes only Type1 version. I think that good solution is put this font package separatly in first time, because a lot of fonts will be losted after replacing PFC by this package. I think that the good place for this fonts is anywhere in /tex-archive/fonts/cm/... I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev, 27-Sep-94, Geneva, Switzerland. E-Mail: malyshev@mx.ihep.su or malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Oct 11 07:44:46 1994 Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:11:32 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Michael Mehlich Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just put an archive file > "fp.tar.gz" > containing one directory named "fp" containing a couple of files > to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. > > It contains a package for high precision fixed point calculations > with big numbers within LaTeX2e. > For a short description of the macros defined see the file readme.fp > which is part of the package. > > The package is recommended to be placed in > macros/latex/contrib/other/fp I have just moved this package to the location indicated. Thanks. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Tue Oct 11 08:49:49 1994 Date: 11 Oct 1994 12:45:59 +0100 (MET) From: Denis B. Roegel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Denis B. Roegel Subject: Re: CTAN Submission 'Rainer Schoepf' > > Michael Mehlich writes: > > > I've just put an archive file > > "fp.tar.gz" > > containing one directory named "fp" containing a couple of files > > to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. > > > > It contains a package for high precision fixed point calculations > > with big numbers within LaTeX2e. > > For a short description of the macros defined see the file readme.fp > > which is part of the package. > > > > The package is recommended to be placed in > > macros/latex/contrib/other/fp > > I have just moved this package to the location indicated. Thanks. > It seems not yet readable on dante... Denis. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 11 15:57:12 1994 Date: 11 Oct 1994 19:51:57 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: "J%org Knappen, Mainz": Frequently asked questions -- 4th edition The NTS project is investigating strategies for possible successors to TeX. I have installed the latest project FAQ as CTAN:/info/NTS-FAQ ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:03:48 +0100 From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" Subject: Frequently asked questions -- 4th edition Frequently Asked Questions of NTS-L Fourth edition Date: 10-OCT-1994 Currently maintained by: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de (J%org Knappen) Remark about the format: This faq is divided into several sections and subsections. Each section contains a subsection general with some ideas which have not yet been discussed. [...] ------- End of Forwarded Message Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG Thu Oct 13 11:41:37 1994 Date: 13 Oct 1994 10:28:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Downes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: eps-staff@MATH.AMS.ORG Subject: AMS-LaTeX 1.2beta release, e-math.ams.org A new release of AMS-LaTeX, 1.2beta, for use with current LaTeX (`LaTeX2e'), is available now via anonymous FTP from e-math.ams.org in the directory /ams/amslatex (a tar.Z file is in the parent directory). Version 1.1 has been moved to the directory /ams/amsltx11. There is a READ.ME file giving some general information and installation instructions; a synopsis of changes is also provided, in the file amslatex.chg. Upgrading to current LaTeX is recommended for most AMS-LaTeX users, for the following reasons: (a) Better user support (well-organized bug-reporting and maintenance procedures) (b) Removal of many minor bugs and confusing aspects of LaTeX 2.09 that often cost users valuable time (c) More on-line documentation (for example, the files usrguide.tex, clsguide.tex, and fntguide.tex in the base distribution). (d) Many internal improvements in font handling. Font definition files are more compact; procedures for dealing with math symbol fonts are better organized; etc. (e) Easier switching between font sets (anyone who wants to use PostScript fonts with LaTeX is well advised to abandon LaTeX 2.09 in favor of current LaTeX) (f) Better support for non-English languages (g) Much better support for graphics and color (h) Ongoing development and enhancements will be done for current LaTeX, not 2.09 (among other reasons, current LaTeX provides a much better, and better documented, interface for developers working on extensions) (i) Easier installation (j) Strong `compatibility mode' that in eight to ten months of real world testing so far has been extremely successful in processing existing LaTeX documents without change. Most of the makers of commercial TeX products already provide, or will soon provide, an up-to-date version of LaTeX with their products. Some AMS-LaTeX 1.1 users whose TeX implementation has relatively limited memory capacities may not be able to use AMS-LaTeX 1.2. For example, there is an upper limit of 3500 control sequence names (hash size) in emTeX's tex286. This was marginally sufficient for LaTeX 2.09 + AMS-LaTeX 1.1, but is not enough for current LaTeX + AMS-LaTeX 1.2. Michael Downes Electronic Products and Services American Mathematical Society P.O. Box 6248 Providence, RI 02940 Internet: tech-support@math.ams.org 401-455-4080 800-321-4AMS extension 4080 From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 17 06:00:09 1994 Date: 17 Oct 1994 09:53:19 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk Subject: program.sty [macros/latex/contrib/supported/program] Here's a copy of my LaTeX2e style file for typesetting programs and algorithms in my favourite style without having to type in endless tabbing commands. Each line is set in math mode so all the indentation and spacing is done automatically. The notation |variable_name| can be used within normal text, maths expressions or programs to indicate a variable name. Use \origbar to get a normal | symbol in a program. The commands \A, \B, \R, \T and \Z typeset the corresponding bold letter with the next object as a substript (eg \S1 typesets {\bf S$_1$} etc). They now cope with primes as well, (eg \S'''). The program.sty file can be easily edited to reflect your favoured style. See the program-demo.tex file for examples. Martin. 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UK English dictionaries do exist, but are not currently available via the internet; I will attempt to get hold of them, but my last attempt at getting stuff from my previous employers (where I developed this release of SPELL and rewrote the dictionaries) was an extremely slow business... Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 18 11:32:02 1994 Date: 18 Oct 1994 12:43:56 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: update to LaTeX2e graphics package David Carlisle has issued a new release of the LaTeX2e standard graphics and color packages. see CTAN:macros/latex/packages/graphics. Probably the most noticeable change for the `traditional' user is the ability to set a default file type. so if all your files are PostScript, but called file.1, file.2 etc, you are now OK Bug reports using latexbug, *not* to c.t.t. or the like, please sebastian rahtz From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 20 11:22:18 1994 Date: 20 Oct 1994 11:52:34 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: new release of Eddi 4 TeX on CTAN, systems/msdos/34t has a new release of Ulrich Jahnze's Eddi4TeX, a sophisticated DOS editor and shell for writing TeX files. this release has fixed support for parsing LaTeX2e log files, inter alia. see the readme or liesmich files. A translation of the manual into English is being prepared, but much more of the help system is already in English. e4t is shareware. please respect this. Sebastian From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Thu Oct 20 14:35:59 1994 Date: 20 Oct 1994 12:28:10 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: obsolete files On Thu, 20 Oct 1994 09:09:24 +0100 (MET), zierke@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Reinhard Zierke) reported: > the directories > CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/trees/tree_tex > CTAN:/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/trees/treetex > contain the same files with different file creation dates. Can you remove > one of these directories? Thanks for pointing this out. I have removed the treetex directory and retained the tree_tex directory (no particular reason why -- they were indeed duplicates of one another). Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 21 14:04:29 1994 Date: 21 Oct 1994 17:50:57 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: David Carlisle Subject: David Carlisle: ftp.tex new submission (mylatex.ltx) I've installed the file David uploaded in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/mylatex.ltx I didn't put it in "supported/misc" , as David had suggested, since it doesn't really fit with my concept of what a supported package is. Here's David's announcement message. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 21 Oct 94 17:35:18 BST From: David Carlisle Message-Id: <9410211635.AA07080@r8d.cs.man.ac.uk> To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: volker@numsun1.mathematik.uni-halle.de Subject: ftp.tex new submission (mylatex.ltx) Robin, just put mylatex.ltx on your ctan incoming directory. This is the code I posted off the top of my head to c.t.t a couple of weeks back for making formats with classes and packages pre-loaded. Volka Kunert has made some improvements to my comments and code so I thought you could stick it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/misc/mylatex.ltx (not that anyone will find it there:-) David The following timings are Volker's below you find the statistics for three LaTeX files. For small files that load a lot of styles the time for latexing is halved. Normally all files that i tex are such small files, so it is worth the trouble of running initex, and remembering to update mylatex.fmt if necessary. The output seems to be ok, a diff on the PS files confirmed this. SPARCstation-10 Model 20 SunOS 4.1.3 This is TeX, Version 3.141 (C version d) (dynamically linked) Output of "time" One Page document: (using AMS styles) latex test12 3.370u 5.490s 0:17.12 51.7% 0+594k 612+56io 260pf+0w latex test12 3.020u 5.340s 0:16.46 50.7% 0+593k 261+37io 66pf+0w mylatex test12 1.230u 3.020s 0:07.47 56.8% 0+456k 238+21io 54pf+0w mylatex test12 1.160u 2.930s 0:07.15 57.2% 0+462k 162+57io 0pf+0w 38 Pages: AMS LaTeX 1.2beta testmath.tex latex testmath 20.770u 7.340s 0:36.70 76.5% 0+787k 263+19io 64pf+0w mylatex testmath 18.710u 6.070s 0:36.96 67.0% 0+791k 585+72io 279pf+0w mylatex testmath 18.110u 5.510s 0:30.04 78.6% 0+789k 301+22io 75pf+0w 4 Pages using AMS styles, Babel, Harvard etc. latex nebenbed 7.460u 8.680s 0:20.66 78.1% 0+719k 184+20io 2pf+0w latex nebenbed 7.530u 9.080s 0:25.72 64.5% 0+712k 601+49io 285pf+0w mylatex nebenbed 4.030u 4.050s 0:17.38 46.4% 0+657k 536+51io 259pf+0w mylatex nebenbed 3.830u 3.700s 0:11.57 65.0% 0+652k 259+18io 69pf+0w Volker Volker.Kunert@mail.mathematik.uni-halle.de ------- End of Forwarded Message Thanks, David, for yet another contribution to the community... Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Oct 21 18:11:45 1994 Date: 21 Oct 1994 16:06:11 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ichihara@rikax1.riken.go.jp Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: ftp.riken.go.jp is mirroing CTAN archives On Sat, 22 Oct 1994 01:31:01 JST, "Takashi Ichihara" reported: > We have started the mirroring the ftp.shsu.edu:/pub/tex-archives daily into > our ftp server: > > ftp.riken.go.jp:/pub/tex-archive > > The first copy will be completed within a day. Please add our ftp server > to the list of the mirror server of CTAN archives, CTAN.sites. If there is > any problem or suggestion, please let me know. Thank you in advance. > > Takashi Ichihara > RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) > 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako, 351-01, Japan > (Internet/Bitnet) Ichihara@rikvax.riken.go.jp > (HEPnet/span) RIKEN::ICHIHARA (41910::Ichihara) > (WWW) http://www.riken.go.jp/ Outstanding! Your site has been added to the list of CTAN sites available via finger ctan_us@SHSU.edu as well as included in the top-level CTAN.sites file in the archive. On behalf of the CTAN team, please allow me to welcome you and your site to this project. If there is anything I can do to assist you from this end, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Regards and thanks for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Oct 22 12:43:58 1994 Date: Sat, 22 Oct 94 16:39:03 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-authors@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.2 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) This package will be in language/chinese/CJK soon on all CTAN hosts (ftp.shsu.edu, ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk). Below you can find the most important new features and the readme file. Happy TeXing Werner PS: Sam Chiu has precompiled a set of GB and Big5 fonts for 600dpi resolution (about 22 MByte uncompressed!). It should be soon in /fonts/chinese/CJK-fonts. ============================================================================== Version 2.2 : new: 18-Oct-1994 CJK now supports hangul and hanja together. Two different sets of subfonts are used as defined in Uhangul.fd and Uhanja.fd . CJK punctuation characters (fullwidth comma, colon, semicolon etc.) will not start a line. CJK opening braces etc. will not end a line. This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.2 (18-Oct-1994) =============================================================== It contains the following files: history.txt Package history CJK.txt This file CJK.sty A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e CJK.enc Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and Korean) standard.enc Bg5.enc KS.enc pmCsmall.enc pmCbig.enc Encoding scheme files Bg5.chr standard.chr hangul.chr pmC.chr Character encoding files Uhangul.fd Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts Uhanja.fd Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!) UBg5.fd UGBs.fd UGBt.fd Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!) UpmC-Bg5.fd UpmC-GBs.fd UpmC-GBt.fd Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts vf/*.vf tfm/*.tfm virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1 (available at the CTAN hosts) utils/hbf2cjk.w CWEB source file for hbf2cjk (at the moment only for UNIX) utils/hbf2hbf.w CWEB source file for hbf2hbf utils/hbf2cjk.c utils/hbf2hbf.c C code files extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf2cjk.dvi utils/hbf2hbf.dvi Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf.h utils/hbf.c Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions) utils/Makefile Makefile for hbf2hbf utils/Makefile.hbf2cjk Makefile for hbf2cjk (only for UNIX) This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. ******************************* * New Korean virtual fonts! * ******************************* Use --- Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} . Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and \begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined: encoding the following coding schemes are currently implemented in CJK.enc: Bg5 (Big5) GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters) GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters) KS (hangul and hanja). For compatibility with the pmC package three additional encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, and pmC-GBt. It's not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with bmf2gf or hbf2cjk (see below) to CJK-encodings. shape It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your site; look at the example .fd-files how to create appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below). CJK* will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character, whereas CJK will not. This is a very realistic example: \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai} ... Text in GuoBiao encoding ... \end{CJK*} How it works ------------ Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5, JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and 0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding. CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active (and in the file CJK.enc you should inactivate those characters not needed to be active if you add a new encoding scheme) inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty) and correct handling of punctuation characters. The encodings ------------- CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@KSEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding. \CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the range 0xA0-0xFE (GB etc). \CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. \CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For more details see below. \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall (this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by Marc Leisher (mleisher@nmsu.edu) to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC) package written by Thomas Ridgeway (ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu). The fonts --------- CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC: o TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts), whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally. o As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes) --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the same time. In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows the use of more than 256 TeX fonts. o You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape). For font selection in a hangul environment see below. Of course you must have proper sizes of your CJK fonts --- if you have, say, 48x48 and 64x64 bitmap fonts (or greater), I recommend bmf2gf to convert them directly to .pk-fonts. If you have only 24x24 size (as most of the public domain fonts are), you can magnify them using bmf2gf with integer magnifications or hbf2cjk with arbitrary magnifications. See the last section for availability of precompiled fonts. If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3). Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with 256 characters each. An example: GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt: ^ ^ ^^ ^^ first byte second byte TeX font offset ---------------------------------------------- 0xA1 0xA1-OxFE gsso1201 0 0xA2 0xA1-0xFE gsso1201 94 0xA3 0xA1-0xE4 gsso1201 188 0xA3 0xE5-0xFE gsso1202 0 0xA4 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 26 0xA5 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 120 . . . 0xFE 0xA1-OxFE gsso1235 38 To create such splitted fonts you can use the package bmf2gf (written by me) which should be at the same place where you've found this package (I upload my TeX packages to the CTAN hosts). Enclosed here in the CJK package you will find the source code of the program hbf2hbf which you should use instead of hbf2bmf of the bmf2gf package. The latter only supports the Big5 encoding scheme of CJK versions before 2.1 . hbf2hbf converts HBF fonts into BMF files (plus a HBF header file) bmf2gf can understand. See the next section for the syntax. To make hbf2hbf, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and optionally the CWEB package. For converting to .pk-files via bmf2gf, you should get the appropriate HBF (Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts completely. Using hbf2cjk ------------- If bmf2gf does not satisfy you, try hbf2cjk. This program is a patched version of HBFtoPK written by S. Simpson . To execute hbf2cjk, you additionally need pnmscale and pgmtopbm of the pbmplus package and pbmtopk. Consider this as a beta version which works unmodified only under UNIX. hbf2cjk is much more slower than bmf2gf - it will call pnmscale and pgmtopbm for each character. The advantage is that you can scale the fonts with any (reasonable) value. To compile hbf2cjk, you will need the GNU C compiler and GNU make, and optionally CWEB. Say `make TARGET -fMakefile.hbf2cjk', where TARGET can be `unix' or `unixdebug'. You should first convert your original CJK font and HBF header with hbf2hbf into a temporary font file and HBF header: Syntax: hbf2hbf output_font_name_without_extension input_HBF_header Then call hbf2cjk to build the needed TeX subfonts: Syntax: hbf2cjk HBF_file fontname resolution family encoding Two decimal digits will be appended to the `fontname' parameter to construct the output file names; `family' and `encoding' will appear as identifiers in the .tfm files. An example: input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf program calls: hbf2hbf temp jfs56.hbf hbf2cjk temp.hbf gsfs13 300 "Jianti FanSong" "Big5" output files: gsfs1301.300pk - gsfs1332.300pk gsfs1301.tfm - gsfs1332.tfm [gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style] ^ ^ ^ ^ It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if you need two characters as a running number... Korean input ------------ (The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening here :-) There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex. The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long), which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is not. In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts. CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with Chinese or Japanese. If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers. To use the KS environment, say \begin{CJK}{KS}{} ... \end{CJK} . These font switches are available inside the environment: fonts from hLaTeX: * \mj MyoungJo (default) \gt Gothic \gs BootGulssi \gr Graphic \dr Dinaru fonts from jhTeX: * \hgt Hangul Gothic * \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) * \hpg Hangul Pilgi \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available. You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory. You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a dvi driver which understands virtual fonts - move the .vf files into a directory your dvi driver will scan. For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul. Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are only accessible if \CJKhanja is active. You should convert your KS hanja fonts using bmf2gf or hbf2cjk as described above. The .fd-files ------------- CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts! CJK.sty defines four new size commands: CJK corresponds to `' (empty) sCJK corresponds to s CJKfixed corresponds to fixed sCJKfixed corresponds to sfixed . The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts. If you say as an example \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{} , LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7 or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros; the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (for pmC compatibility, \CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers). See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally. Caveats ------- o You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment, but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...). The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK environments: lowercase If you want to use \lowercase with non-Big5 encodings inside CJK environments. You need less save size using the `encapsulated' option if `lowercase' is not set. global \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most economical mode concerning save size, but you can't have CJK environments inside of CJK environments or other environments which manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE. Packages which change some of the above values only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not work after the first use of a CJK environment. local Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will be modified globally. This is the default. You can stack environments. encapsulated If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working correctly, you must use this option. All values mentioned above will be local, so you can stack environments. This option probably causes an overflow of the save size. Say \usepackage[option]{CJK} to activate `option'. o There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments. CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at the same output line, you must use these macros. An example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song} ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt} ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai} ... Text in GBt kai ... \end{CJK} As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their active meaning. o The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5 encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters are ( and ) respectively. An example: \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song} \begin{Bg5text} .... /begin(center) .... /end(center) .... /end(Bg5text) \end{CJK} To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside the Bg5text environment. This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not work in it, but I know no other solution to retain all CJK characters readable with a Big5 editor. o Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non- Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will not be expanded. o Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter etc.). o If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or } outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar macro manually: \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}} The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation. o CJK will disable \uppercase and \lowercase (preserving the commands within \CJKuppercase and \CJKlowercase) if you select a Big5 encoding. This affects the headers of the standard classes and \Roman only in standard LaTeX2e. o \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF. o You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example, use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen). LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK character affected under certain circumstances. Possible errors --------------- o If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment, otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side, say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a space after a CJK character. o To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character. You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between CJK characters signales that the first is a punctuation character. o If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese characters after closing the CJK environment. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default definition is \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip} . \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase \CJKtolerance. The default definition is \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400} . o If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding} instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above. How to get CJK and related software ----------------------------------- o You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp servers (concerning TeX software) are ftp.shsu.edu Sam Houston University Texas (USA) ftp.dante.de DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX) Heidelberg (Germany) ftp.tex.ac.uk Cambridge University Cambridge (England) You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of a CTAN host. CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the parent directory of CJK and say get CJK.zip or (whichever is appropriate for your system) get CJK.tar.gz The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support compression of directories. o The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you find free Chinese fonts, Text editors etc. o The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in /software/fonts/misc/hbf. o Sam Chiu compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded) and ntu_kai48 (Big5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi resolution. You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the CTAN hosts in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese Author ------ Werner Lemberg Goldschlagstr. 52/14 A-1150 Vienna Austria/Europe Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Oct 25 13:53:18 1994 Date: 25 Oct 1994 11:42:19 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: kris@diku.dk Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: XY-pic version 2.12 released... On Tue, 25 Oct 1994 13:20:51 +0100, kris@diku.dk posted: > This is to announce yet another BUG FIX release of my DIAGRAM DRAWING > PACKAGE, XY-pic: version 2.12. It fixes the following user visible bugs in > version 2.11: >..... > ** PLEASE UPDATE TO VERSION 2.12 IF YOU USE AMS-LaTeX *** Thanks for the notofication! I have just completed the mirror to SHSU of these files (to /tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic) so they are available the other CTAN sites and mirrors. --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 27 09:11:58 1994 Date: 27 Oct 1994 12:06:37 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Sam Chiu , Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Sam Chiu: CTAN Submission (CJK-fonts) I have installed the files, as Sam suggests, at ftp.tex.ac.uk. They also appear in fonts/chinese/CJK The files installed match the latest release (2.2) of the CJK package, announced earlier this week. Propagation to other CTAN sites is in hand, but may take some time... ------- Forwarded Message From: ccc11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Sam Chiu) Subject: CTAN Submission (CJK-fonts) To: ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk, ctan-mgr@shsu.edu Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 01:17:13 +0100 (BST) I have uploaded a set of Chinese fonts for LaTeX2e to ftp.tex.ac.uk as one big .tar file (about 22MB total). These fonts are intended to be used with the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) package written by Werner Lemberg . The CJK package is located under tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK in the CTAN directory tree. The following is a part of the documentation file that will accompany the fonts. I suggest putting these fonts under tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK-fonts so that they remain a self-contained set but closely related to the CJK package. I am in communication with Werner Lemberg (author of CJK) as well as Robin Fairbairns so they are aware of my fonts and the upload. Thank you for your attention. --- Sam Chiu ======================================================================== File: CJK-fonts.txt Using the gsfs and b5ka fonts with LaTeX2e + CJK Package (version 2.1) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Sam Chiu Release date: 16 Oct 1994 Introduction ------------- This document describes the use of two Chinese fonts with LaTeX2e and the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) package written by Werner Lemberg . The two fonts are: -- gsfs10 GB-encoded Simplified FangSong style at 10pt design size ^ ^ ^ ^ (based on the 56x56 bitmap font jfs56 found at ifcss.org) -- b5ka10 Big5-encoded Traditional Kai style at 10pt design size ^ ^ ^^ (based on the 48x48 bitmap font ntu_kai48 found at ifcss.org) At present, four sizes are available for 600dpi printers, corresponding to size-changing commands \normalsize, \large, \Large and \LARGE in 10pt document class. See below for info on generating other fonts, or fonts at other sizes/resolutions. The following instructions are geared towards unix platforms. EmTeX users will need to modify some of the commands/filenames. Files contained in this directory - --------------------------------- CJK-fonts.txt this file UBg5.fd font definition files UGBs.fd samp-GB.tex sample files samp-GB.ps.gz samp-B5.tex samp-B5.ps.gz b5ka10.tfm.tar.gz font metric files for b5ka10 b5ka10.600a.tar.gz 3598184 600pk files, \normalsize (10 pt) b5ka10.600b.tar.gz b5ka10.600c.tar.gz b5ka10.600d.tar.gz b5ka10.720a.tar.gz 3723980 720pk files, \large (12 pt) b5ka10.720b.tar.gz b5ka10.720c.tar.gz b5ka10.720d.tar.gz b5ka10.864a.tar.gz 4019404 864pk files, \Large (14.4 pt) b5ka10.864b.tar.gz b5ka10.864c.tar.gz b5ka10.864d.tar.gz b5ka10.1037a.tar.gz 4353700 1037pk files, \LARGE (17.28 pt) b5ka10.1037b.tar.gz b5ka10.1037c.tar.gz b5ka10.1037d.tar.gz gsfs10.tfm.tar.gz font metric files for gsfs10 gsfs10.600a.tar.gz 2071104 600pk files, \normalsize (10 pt) gsfs10.600b.tar.gz gsfs10.720a.tar.gz 2280020 720pk files, \large (12 pt) gsfs10.720b.tar.gz gsfs10.864a.tar.gz 2440352 864pk files, \Large (14.4 pt) gsfs10.864b.tar.gz gsfs10.1037a.tar.gz 2694164 1037pk files, \LARGE (17.28 pt) gsfs10.1037b.tar.gz [The figures are uncompressed and untar'ed sizes in bytes. Pick the ones you need and can afford to store!] [... snip ...] ------- End of Forwarded Message From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 27 11:27:02 1994 Date: 27 Oct 1994 14:21:18 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: C.Walshaw@gre.ac.uk, settels@amc.uva.nl, Werner.Icking@gmd.de Subject: midi2tex and abc2mtex uploaded to CTAN I have uploaded midi2tex to support/midi2tex. MIDI2TeX translates MIDI data files into MusicTeX source code (so I'm told). I have also uploaded abc2mtex to support/abc2mtex, which translates its own `abc' format to MusicTeX. It was designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European origin (such as Irish, English and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation. These are applications that have been available for some time; they are being placed on CTAN as part of a consolidation exercise. Robin Fairbairns Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Fri Oct 28 19:59:39 1994 Date: 28 Oct 1994 13:32:57 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: minitoc package On Fri, 28 Oct 94 09:32:11 +0100, Jean-Pierre Drucbert posted: > In /incoming/minitoc, you will find a new version of the minitoc package > (only the LaTeX2e version has changed, from 21 to 22, but I put the whole > stuff) to correct a typo in minitoc.sty: at line 1157 (approx.), I > corrected > -1-\baselineskip > to > -1.0\baselineskip > > Thanks to Blair McMaster who has found that bug. > > Sincerely yours, > > Jean-Pierre Drucbert > drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Thanks for the updates. The new files have been installed to replace the ones in both directries. Regards and thansk for your interest in our services, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From POPPE@SWOV.NL Wed Nov 2 06:10:15 1994 Date: 02 Nov 1994 12:09:00 +0100 From: Frank Poppe Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX2e Betatest To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-2E Subject: Re: new release of graphics package - problem? Thanks for the information. I did indeed get an answer from this person (I deleted his mail already and forgot his name) pointing this out. I have send already a message to the list saying that my problem can be solved. I did not send out a bug report immediately because I wasn't sure where the problem was - perhaps it was just some foolishness of my part... I had already downloaded a new version of CLASSES.DTX but did not yet install it. I thought that would solve the problem. It appears LTXGUIDE.CLS is not in CLASSES.DTX, so I've asked the archive-mailer for a new version of that too. I had ordered CLASSES.DTX because the latest PATCHES.TXT (which was announced through the CTAN-ANN list) mentioned that CLASSES.DTX had been modified. But LTXGUIDE wasn't mentioned. How should one know which files have been changed? If I look at the filedates in the /unpacked directory all have a date of Sep 26 or Sep 30. That doesn't mean all have changed I suppose? And perhaps GRFGUIDE.TEX should have specified it needed a LTXGUIDE.CLS of 94/09/23? (Please, this is not meant as serious critique - but why not use these nice new options of LaTeX2e?) Frank Poppe From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 2 09:50:30 1994 Date: 02 Nov 1994 14:41:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Doublespace & askinclude.sty for Latex2e In article <392tsp$dg9@newstand.syr.edu>, Thomas R. Scavo wrote: >In article <391boa$iao@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, >Robin Fairbairns wrote: >>In article <1994Oct30.160924.19999@leeds.ac.uk>, >>Zhou J wrote: >>> (2) There is askinclude.sty for old Latex, which makes it >>> easy to include multi-input tex files in one document; >>> and I was wondering if there is one version of askinclude.sty >>> for latex2e, and where I may get it? >> >>I'ld be very surprised if it needed upgrading; given the nature of >>things, it's not likely to appear as a puckah 2e package for some time >>yet -- just try using the old version. > >Wasn't there some discussion of packages that modify >\begin{document} some time ago? askinclude.sty modifies >\begin{document} and so that may be a problem. (Since I produced the list of such packages, I ought to have remembered ;-) I had in fact been discussing the askinclude problem with M. Zhou off line, and have produced an apparently working version of askinclude. I have now uploaded my version to ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/askinclude.sty; it will presumably propagate to the other CTAN sites in pretty short order. Robin From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 2 10:42:13 1994 Date: 02 Nov 1994 15:31:46 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Linda Wilson Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX MATH REF SHEET. Linda Wilson asked about a copy of symbols.tex: > Yes, please put the PostScript version where others can get it. > I don't have LaTeX2e (and please don't tell me I should upgrade :-). Symbols.tex requires rather more than basic LaTeX2e even. I've installed tex-archive/info/symbols.ps on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it'll no doubt propagate to the other CTAN sites and mirrors soon. The .ps was generated for a Xerox4030 (the only 300dpi printer I have even marginal access to...). Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 3 09:30:59 1994 Date: 03 Nov 1994 14:24:37 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: David Carlisle Subject: New version of symbols I have installed new copies of symbols.tex (from David Carlisle) and symbols.ps (which I generated, for a 300dpi printer) in directory info The change is simply to make the file compile without warning when using the latest release of AMSLaTeX packages. Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 4 11:54:48 1994 Date: 04 Nov 1994 16:49:23 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Subject: new release of latex2e graphics packge The LaTeX graphics packages have been updated to fix some small errors reported in the versions released on 18th October. The four affected files are: graphics.dtx pstcol.dtx drivers.dtx changes.txt The changes since the last release are recorded below (as listed in changes.txt) David Carlisle + Wed Nov 2 13:12:34 1994 David Carlisle + + * graphics.dtx: fix catcodes of ctrl-D and \endlinechar + when reading eps files. + + Thu Oct 27 17:25:18 1994 David Carlisle + + * pstcol.dtx: add gradbegin and gradend colours. + + Mon Oct 24 14:19:23 1994 David Carlisle + + * graphics.dtx: Modify support for ! in \resizebox + (Old code added to support active ! broke \width etc) + \DeclareGraphicsRule Check #3 (not #2) is * (Reported by + Arthur Ogawa). + Missing \expandafter in \Gin@setfile (Reported by Arthur + Ogawa). + + * drivers.dtx: Missing \the in dvitops \special. Reported by + Arthur Ogawa. + From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 7 12:45:37 1994 Date: 07 Nov 1994 17:39:33 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Draft of typeset version of the FAQ The UKTUG committee is working on a new version of the TeX FAQ, for publication in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville. I have just installed the current state of the work on ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq/ -- it should propagate to the other CTAN sites soon. We would welcome any comments that interested parties may have to make. In particular, additions to the list of `required questions' (preferably with ready-supplied answers...) are solicited. There are one or two queries (the footnotes typeset in typewriter), which remain to be answered. Interesting files are: *.tex,*.sty should enable you to typeset the document, if that's what turns you on... Typesetting requires a current production LaTeX2e newfaq.dvi typeset to require current psnfss2e-style times and helvetica fonts newfaq-cm.dvi typeset in computer modern newfaq.ps set for a 300dpi printer (the only remaining one I have access to...) required-questions questions that _I_ know remain to be answered ChangeLog Well, you might find it interesting (I don't particularly) A WWW version of the thing is available at URL http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes We intend to make a plain text version to be fed back to Bobby Bodenheimer; the effort proceeds with his blessing... Robin Fairbairns Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 8 07:34:01 1994 Date: 08 Nov 1994 11:54:20 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: zaccone@sol.cs.bucknell.edu Subject: Excalibur dictionaries on CTAN In addition to the dictionaries that were already present in systems/mac/support/excalibur, I've added British-Dictionary-sea.hqx Dico-Francais-sea.hqx Dutch-Dictionary-sea.hqx Italian-Dictionary-sea.hqx This was at the suggestion of Rick Zaccone, who was affronted that the new typeset version of the FAQ didn't mention Excalibur. I'm willing to attempt to address any grievances of the sort that Rick expressed, but I can't do so unless people express them... Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Tue Nov 8 17:37:50 1994 Date: 08 Nov 1994 16:32:28 -0500 (CDT) From: George D. Greenwade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: RE: minitoc again. On Tue, 8 Nov 94 14:36:56 +0100, drucbert@reseau.onecert.fr (drucbert) posted: > I have uploaded in the incoming directory the new versions 17c (LaTeX209) > and 23 (LaTeX2e) of the minitoc package. These versions fix a bug (a > missing line in \sectlof@). And more: thes versions work with document > classes resetting chapter (or section) number at each part (as does the > package french.sty, I do not know why) (Thanks to Denis Roegel who reported > the problem and helped me in the tests). The numbering scheme of the > auxiliary files (.mtc and co.) has been simplified, so the commands > \firstchapteris and siblings are now obsolete (they just give warnings) and > all the appendix related stuff has been eliminated. Thanks. The 2e files have been installed in macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc/ and the 2.09 files are in macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc/ for access. --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov 10 10:12:08 1994 Date: 10 Nov 1994 16:01:57 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: GOMULINSKI MICHAL ANDRZEJ Subject: ChiWriter to LaTeX converter The following package by Michal Gomulinski has been installed in support/chi2ltx: Chi2ltx 0.9 Description This program is designed to help you with converting your documents written using Chi Writer 4.x editor into LaTeX format. It does his job quite well --- translates nearly all standard fonts plus all Polish fonts as Chi Writer was popular in Polish academic society. It also translates all mathematic formulas and tables except for the long tables that run through multiple pages. It also doesn't convert header, footer and footnote information. The package includes DOS executable, all the sources, example files and documentation --- both only in Polish. Michal Gomulinski (e-mail: mgomulin@proton.elka.pw.edu.pl) From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 11:27:20 1994 Date: 10 Nov 1994 16:16:52 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Wolfgang.Christen@ipp-garching.mpg.de, GOOSSENS@cernvm.cern.ch, MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de Subject: rotating package upgrade I am updating the rotating package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotating to a) not copy the latex float macros, but just sit on top of them b) obey [twoside] in the rotated figures and tables c) added clockwise and counterclockwise options; clockwise is the default as per the Companion b) will not work unless the table or figure has a caption.... expect this to propagte to CTAN hosts later tonight Wolfgang owes me a beer Sebastian From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Nov 14 15:14:15 1994 Date: 14 Nov 1994 19:46:26 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: lscape.sty and preload.tex on ctan lscape.sty (for making landscape pages) has been available in the LaTeX graphics package macros/latex/packages/graphics/lscape.dtx for some weeks The obsolete version in macros/latex209/contrib/misc/lscape.sty has now been deleted. Similarly the file macros/latex209/contrib/misc/preload.tex for making customised LaTeX formats has been deleted, replaced (more or less) by macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/mylatex.ltx David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 15 10:51:20 1994 Date: 15 Nov 1994 15:05:48 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: Typeset version of the FAQ upgraded I've just installed the latest version (1.5) of the UK TUG typeset FAQ on CTAN /tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq There's lots more questions in the FAQ now (many of which need proofreading ;-), and even a 00readme file. Comments on the document to me, please. Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 05:30:24 1994 Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:27:12 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Tobias Oetiker Subject: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e.tex Uploaded I have installed Tobias' stuff as announced below ------- Forwarded Message Subject: lshort2e.tex Uploaded Announcement: ======================================================================== Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort2e A not very Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e (58 Pages) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ by Tobias Oetiker 16/11/1994 If you want to learn how to write your documents with LaTeX, this introduction is for you. It is not about setting up a LaTeX system. While it is not as comprehensive as Lamport's book, it should be sufficient in most cases. The document is provided in PS DVI and source form ... Enjoy! All the best Tobi ========================================================================= ___ ______ __ __ .___ __ __ _ ___________ __ /_ __/ / / /_/__,_ .___ / __ \.__ _/ / _/ /_.__ _,_ __ ___ / / _ \/ _ \/ / _ /( _/ | /_/ / -_) _/ / / -_)/ ._) __ __ /_/\___/____/_/\__._|/___) \____/\___\./__/_/\_\ __\ / _____ _____________________________ finger oetiker@helios.dmu.ac.uk____ ------- End of Forwarded Message English-speaking LaTeX users of the world have good reason to be grateful to Tobias for the work he's done (as should users whose German speech is as dubious as mine ;-) Thanks, Tobi Robin Fairbairns Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 16 05:51:24 1994 Date: 16 Nov 1994 10:47:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Tobias Oetiker Subject: Re: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e.tex Uploaded I failed to update Tobi's original message: ------- Forwarded Message > Now available for CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort2e It should have been CTAN:/pub/tex/info/lshort (I put it in lshort, by analogy with the location of the German version, which is in directory lkurz) ------- End of Forwarded Message Robin From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 05:17:27 1994 Date: 21 Nov 1994 10:13:03 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Vassili Malychev , 71172.524@CompuServe.COM Subject: Re: New version of the CM Type1 and TT fontts Vassili Malyshev has updated his BaKoMa collection of Type1 versions of Computer Modern fonts. I append his notes. Many thanks to him for this excellent resource sebastian > Differences of this version with previous are: > 1. Space character is added. > 2. Encoding is changed to be compatible with some products > (This is resonable for TrueType version) > 3. Character shape outlines have more optimal encoding > and TrueType outlines have simplified encoding with respect > to PostScript version. > > > I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples. > > Bye. > > Basil K. Malyshev, 11/17/94 22:53:02, Geneve, Switzerland. > E-Mail: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch or malyshev@mx.ihep.su From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 07:26:55 1994 Date: 21 Nov 1994 12:19:09 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Subject: update to Blu format Kees van der Laan has updated his `Blu' format (macros/blu). we have also started a subdirectory macros/blu/documents for Kee's articles about his Blue work. The first one there is an article on one-pass indexing. the others will be added in due course sebastian From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 21 07:49:24 1994 Date: 21 Nov 1994 12:42:56 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Rnototex installed on CTAN I've just installed a rnototex distribution on ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/support/rnototex; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites in the next day or so. Rnototex is a translator from [Digital Standard] Runoff files to LaTeX 2.09 report style files. It doesn't (in my experience) produce exactly what one wants, but it's a useful basis for starting translation. This distribution has been variously available for a very long time, but has for some reason never made it to archives. The author (Peter Vanroose) is no longer supporting it, but I have his permission to install it on the archive. Robin -- Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 22 07:17:49 1994 Date: 22 Nov 1994 12:03:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Where to find some stuff mentioned in "LaTeX Companion"? In article <3ask7u$s0e@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >In article <3ar6f0$ip3@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>, >Sergei Naumov wrote: >>I was browsing around on CTAN sites but I didn't find several things >>that are mentioned in "LaTeX Companion". [...] What I omitted to say was that there's a file which originated with Sebastian Rahtz on CTAN:/tex-archive/info/companion.ctan, which indicates where you should look. I've updated Sebastian's original, and have now posted the update to ftp.tex.ac.uk (it'll propagate to the other CTAN sites some time soon). This is not my final say on the matter; I'll try and keep it up to date, and to sort out (and even document) the notation in it, but it's a start... Robin From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 22 07:27:08 1994 Date: 22 Nov 1994 12:18:48 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tobias Oetiker Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: Version 1.1 of lshort uploaded Tobi writes: > I have just uploaded Version 1.1 of lshort 2e. Could You > please replace Version 1.0. I have done that; as before, it's gone to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/info/lshort and will propagate to the other CTAN sites some time soon. For those that missed the original announcement, lshort2e is a (not- so-short) summary of the facilities of LaTeX2e (an English relation of LaTeX2e-Kurzbeschreibung) The directory includes lshort2e.300.ps, .600.ps and .dvi files for those who don't have LaTeX2e to format it. Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 25 05:19:08 1994 Date: 25 Nov 1994 09:50:22 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch, 71172.524@CompuServe.COM, rokicki@neon.stanford.edu Subject: partial PS font downloader Basil Malyshev has produced a tool for partial downloading of PostScript fonts; i append his note. Its installed in fonts/utilities/fontload. Many thanks to Basil for his ongoing work! > > I have upload into CTAN host ftp.tex.ac.uk file FontLoad.tar.Z > which contains small tool to download only required characters > from ATM compatible Type 1 fonts. > This is analog of the Partial font downloading facility of the DVIPSONE > program but works with PS file (not DVI). > Of cource, this works slowly then DVIPSONE, but this way have no > problems with fonts used in inserted EPS pictures. > So, I think, this can be usefull in some cases. > sebastian From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Nov 30 16:45:03 1994 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 22:16:21 MEZ From: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu, soft-authors@ifcss.org Subject: Announcing CJK 2.3 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) Here is the readme and a part of the history file of the latest version of the CJK package supporting Chinese/Japanese/Korean under LaTeX2e. Happy TeXing Werner Version 2.3: new: 15-Nov-1994 JIS coding scheme/environment added. pmC-KS and pmC-JIS environments added. CNS coding scheme added. hbf2gf added. This program merges bmf2gf, hbf2cjk, and hbf2hbf; it will be about 10 times faster than hbf2cjk. Consequently, hbf2cjk and hbf2hbf were removed. changed: only \uppercase disabled (see error). \CJK@char etc. simplified. errors: verbatim environments didn't work in Big5 encoding (Lee Chun-Yu ). This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.3 (15-Nov-1994) =============================================================== It contains the following files: history.txt Package history CJK.txt This file CJK.sty A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e CJK.enc Master Encoding File (at the moment only for Chinese and Korean) standard.enc Bg5.enc KS.enc pmCsmall.enc pmCbig.enc Encoding scheme files Bg5.chr standard.chr hangul.chr pmC.chr Character encoding files CNS.sty CNS.enc CNS.chr CNS encoding to be used together with a different CJK encoding following Christian Wittern's CEF (Chinese Encoding Framework) UBg5.fd UGBs.fd UGBt.fd Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!) UJIS.fd Font definition file for Japanese (example only!) Uhangul.fd Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts Uhanja.fd Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!) UpmC-Bg5.fd UpmC-GBs.fd UpmC-GBt.fd UpmC-JIS.fd UpmC-KS.fd Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts UCNS-1.fd UCNS-2.fd UCNS-3.fd UCNS-4.fd UCNS-5.fd UCNS-6.fd UCNS-7.fd Font definition files for CNS fonts (examples only!) vf/*.vf tfm/*.tfm virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1 (available at the CTAN hosts) utils/hbf2gf.w CWEB source file for hbf2gf utils/hbf2gf.c C code file extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf2gf.dvi Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf2gf.cfg Configuration file example utils/hbf2gf.exe Bounded executable for DOS and OS/2 utils/hbf.h utils/hbf.c Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions) utils/Makefile Makefile for hbf2gf utils/emx.exe utils/emx.dll utils/rsx.exe Runtime binaries for DOS and OS/2 (must be in the path) This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. Use --- Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} . Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and \begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined: encoding the following encodings are currently implemented in CJK.enc (for CNS encoding see below): Bg5 (Big5) GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters, G1 = GB 2312-80) GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters, G1 = GB 12345-90) JIS (Japanese Industry Standard, G1 = JIS X0208-1990) KS (hangul and hanja, G1 = KSC 5601-1987). The encodings (except Big5) are simplified EUC (Extended UNIX Code) character sets without single shifts. The character set slot G1 stands for two byte encodings with byte values taken from the GR (Graphic Right) character range 0xA1-0xFE (as defined in ISO 2022). For compatibility with the pmC package these additional encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, pmC-GBt, pmC-JIS, and pmC-KS. It's not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with hbf2gf (see below) to CJK-encodings. shape It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your site; look at the example .fd-files how to create appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below). The CJK* environment will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character, whereas CJK will not. This is a very realistic example: \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai} ... Text in GuoBiao encoding ... \end{CJK*} How it works ------------ Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big5, JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and 0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding. Due to the internal architecture of TeX it is impossible to support ISO 2022 escape sequences as used with MULE (Multi Language Emacs). MULE is a common extension of GNU-Emacs to support CJK scripts. CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty) and correct handling of punctuation characters. The encodings ------------- CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@KSEncoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding. \CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS). \CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. \CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For more details see below. \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall (this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an offset of -128); pmC-Big5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by Marc Leisher to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC) package written by Thomas Ridgeway . The fonts --------- CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) which has some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC (for plain TeX and LaTeX 2.09): o TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts), whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally. o As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes) --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the same time. In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows the use of more than 256 TeX fonts. o You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing the other attributes except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape). For font selection in a hangul environment see below. Of course you must have access to bitmap CJK fonts --- use hbf2gf to convert them to .pk-fonts. See the last section for availability of precompiled fonts. If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3). Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with 256 characters each. An example: GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style 12pt: ^ ^ ^^ ^^ first byte second byte TeX font offset ---------------------------------------------- 0xA1 0xA1-OxFE gsso1201 0 0xA2 0xA1-0xFE gsso1201 94 0xA3 0xA1-0xE4 gsso1201 188 0xA3 0xE5-0xFE gsso1202 0 0xA4 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 26 0xA5 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 120 . . . 0xFE 0xA1-OxFE gsso1235 38 For converting to .pk-files with hbf2gf, you must get the appropriate HBF (Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts completely. Using hbf2gf ------------- hbf2gf converts CJK bitmaps with an HBF header file into .gf-files (and consequently into .pk fonts). Syntax: hbf2gf configuration_file Keywords in the configuration file must start a line, the appropriate values being on the same line separated with one or more blanks or tabs. Here is an example configuration (please refer to hbf2gf.dvi for a description of the keywords): hbf_header jfs56.hbf mag_x 1.482 x_offset 3 y_offset -8 comment jianti fansongti 56x56 pixel font magnified and adapted for 10pt nmb_files -1 output_name gsfs10 checksum 123456789 dpi_x 600 dpi_y 600 coding codingscheme GB 2312-80 encoded TeX text pk_directory d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\ tfm_directory d:\china\tfm\ rm_command del cp_command copy long_extension off job_extension .cmd And here the results: input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf program call: hbf2gf jfs56.cfg intermediate files: jfs56.cmd, gsfs1001.gf - gsfs1032.gf, gsfs1001.pl batch file call: jfs56.cmd output files: d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\gsfs1001.pk - gsfs1032.pk, d:\china\tfm\gsfs1001.tfm - gsfs1032.tfm [gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style ^ ^ ^ ^ It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if you need two characters as a running number...] This would be a correct entry in UGBs.fd: \DeclareFontShape{U}{GBs}{m}{fansong}{ <-10> CJKfixed * gsfs10 <10> sCJKfixed * gsfs10 <10.95> sCJKfixed * gsfs12 <12> sCJKfixed * gsfs12 <14.4> sCJKfixed * gsfs14 <17.28> CJK sCJKfixed * gsfs17 <20.74-> CJKfixed * gsfs17}{} assuming that you have created fonts for 10, 12, 14.4, and 17.28pt. Korean input ------------ (The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening here :-) There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex. The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long), which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges overlap and the converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is not. In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts. CJK's hangul support is thought for users who write texts in a non CJK language and who want to input some hangul characters, possibly mixed with Chinese or Japanese. If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers. To use the KS environment, say \begin{CJK}{KS}{} ... \end{CJK} . These font switches are available inside the environment: fonts from hLaTeX: * \mj MyoungJo (default) \gt Gothic \gs BootGulssi \gr Graphic \dr Dinaru fonts from jhTeX: * \hgt Hangul Gothic * \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) * \hpg Hangul Pilgi \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available. You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory. You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a dvi driver which understands virtual fonts -- move the .vf files into a directory your dvi driver will scan. For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul. Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are only accessible if \CJKhanja is active. You should convert your KS hanja fonts using hbf2gf as described above. CNS.sty ------- (The status of this feature is experimental.) Christian Wittern develops CEF, the Chinese Encoding Framework. This will enable the use of Big5 as the primary encoding with CNS 11643-1992 as a secondary character set for characters not included in Big5. Inputting CNS characters into a text will be done with a data base. To facilitate this, the first bytes of the three byte CNS encoding are mapped onto the characters 0x81-0x87. Say \usepackage[options]{CNS} to use CNS (CJK.sty will be loaded automatically). If you need to specify options for CJK, say \usepackage[options]{CJK} \usepackage[options]{CNS} The possible options for CNS.sty are `compressed' and `uncompressed' to indicate the use of compressed (256 characters per font a la CJK.sty) or uncompressed fonts (94 characters per plane as in pmC). Default is compressed. CNS encoding is available only in CJK environments; the commands \CNSchar (of course with three parameters for byte 1 to 3) and \CNSshape are similar to their CJK counterparts. Default value of \CNSshape is `song'. Uncompressed fonts should be named equal to pmC fonts (font names ending with hex numbers). The .fd-files ------------- CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts! CJK.sty defines four new size commands: CJK corresponds to `' (empty) sCJK corresponds to `s' CJKfixed corresponds to `fixed' sCJKfixed corresponds to `sfixed' . The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts. If you say as an example \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{} , LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7 or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros; the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (in pmC compatibility mode, \CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers). See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally. Caveats ------- o You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment, but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...). The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK environments: lowercase If you want to use \lowercase with non-Big5 encodings inside CJK environments. You need less save size using the `encapsulated' option if `lowercase' is not set. global \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most economical mode concerning save size, but you can't have CJK environments inside of CJK environments or other environments which manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE. Packages which change some of the above values only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not work after the first use of a CJK environment. local Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will be modified globally. This is the default. You can stack environments. encapsulated If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working correctly, you must use this option. All values mentioned above will be local, so you can stack environments. This option probably causes an overflow of the save size. Say \usepackage[option]{CJK} to activate `option'. o There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments. CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at the same output line, you must use these macros. An example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song} ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt} ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai} ... Text in GBt kai ... \end{CJK} As with \begin{CJK}{...}{...}, you should start a new line after \CJKenc to assure that possibly new activated characters get their active meaning. o The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big5 encoding. If you write Big5 text, you should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash /, and the grouping characters are ( and ) respectively. An example: \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song} \begin{Bg5text} .... /begin(center) .... /end(center) .... /end(Bg5text) \end{CJK} To get the /, (, and ) characters, write //, /(, and /) inside the Bg5text environment. This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not work in it, but I know no other solution to retain all CJK characters readable with a Big5 editor. o Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non- Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will not be expanded. o Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter etc.). o If it's not possible to avoid Big5 character codes with \, {, or } outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big5-text in a \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar macro manually: \section{This is a problematic Big5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}} The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big5 character code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation. o CJK will disable \uppercase (preserving the command within \CJKuppercase) if you select a Big5 encoding. This affects the headers of the standard classes and \Roman only in standard LaTeX2e. Be aware that some packages and style files may use \uppercase for dirty tricks (e.g. to define macros for active characters). The clean way would be either to use a document class which does not convert headers to uppercase or to write a small package modifying the sectioning commands to remove the \uppercase commands. o \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF. o You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example, use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen). LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK character affected under certain circumstances. Possible errors --------------- o If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment, otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side, say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a space after a CJK character. o To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character. You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between CJK characters signales that the first is a punctuation character. o If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing Chinese characters after closing the CJK environment. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default definition is \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip} . \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase \CJKtolerance. The default definition is \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400} . o If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding} instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above. How to get CJK and related software ----------------------------------- o You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp servers (concerning TeX software) are ftp.shsu.edu Sam Houston University Texas (USA) ftp.dante.de DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX) Heidelberg (Germany) ftp.tex.ac.uk Cambridge University Cambridge (England) You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of a CTAN host. CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the parent directory of CJK and say get CJK.zip or (whichever is appropriate for your system) get CJK.tar.gz The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support compression of directories. o The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan), cnd.org (USA) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you find free Chinese fonts, Text editors etc. Note that while updating this text (15-Nov-1994) ifcss.org has stopped ftp access temporarily due to network problems. o The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in /software/fonts/misc/hbf. o Sam Chiu compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded) and ntu_kai48 (Big5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi resolution. You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the CTAN hosts in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese Author ------ Werner Lemberg Goldschlagstr. 52/14 A-1150 Vienna Austria/Europe Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Dec 5 21:35:19 1994 Date: 05 Dec 1994 10:48:52 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Release of LaTeX: 17th/18th December Release of LaTeX: December 1994 =============================== LaTeX is planned to be re-issued on a regular 6-monthly basis. The first full LaTeX2e release was dated 1st June 1994, and the second full release will have a nominal date of 1994/12/01 (1st December). Since June we have made many improvements, fixing problems reported, and also integrating support for (8-bit) input encodings, such as the `latin1' encoding. In order to allow a full testing phase we have decided to slightly delay the public release. We now expect to place the next release of LaTeX on ctan sites during the weekend 17th/18th December. Thank you for your patience, David Carlisle For the LaTeX3 Project. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 8 08:17:02 1994 Date: 08 Dec 1994 12:20:37 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e documentation, fragments, directories at CTAN I have installed the following small contributions at ftp.tex.ac.uk; they should propagate to the other CTANs soon. LaTeX2e documentation directory: tex-archive/macros/latex/doc This contains links to *guide.tex in tex-archive/macros/latex/base, and .dvi and (300dpi) .ps for them. The reasoning behind providing this stuff is that it enables people who haven't yet installed LaTeX2e to read the documentation to find out what it might offer them (processing *guide.tex requires LaTeX2e). I've also installed links in the directory to tex-archive/macros/ latex/packages/graphics/grfguide.*, at David Carlisle's suggestion. (There's little point in providing a .dvi of this file, since the package in effect requires a PostScript printer before it's any use; however, I could install the .dvi as well if people consider it useful.) LaTeX2e class/package fragments directory: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments This I discussed some very long time ago with Donald Arseneau, in the context of the one fragment I've put in the directory: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/removefr.tex, which implements a function \@removefromreset, which performs the inverse of the LaTeX internal command \@addtoreset. Useful for classes/ packages that build on an existing class, but want a revamped counter reset structure (for example, in the faq.sty I wrote for the UKTUG FAQ, the questions are in effect subsections, but the number's not reset between the sections). Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 10 17:25:41 1994 Date: 09 Dec 1994 13:14:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: pslatex deleted Given that pslatex pslatex on CTAN was a 2.09/NFSS1 package, and given that neither of those packages are available from CTAN, I have deleted pslatex from ftp.tex.ac.uk (and it'll go from other sites in the near future, too). This action was taken following (indirect) mail from Mario Wolczko, the author of the package. obin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 13 12:11:28 1994 Date: 13 Dec 1994 15:50:00 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Baskerville in CTAN I have placed issues of Baskerville, the UKTUG journal, on CTAN in usergrps/uktug/baskervi. These are only those numbers older than 1 year. I have put the source files, and Acrobat PDF files. Sebastian Rahtz From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 14 11:05:01 1994 Date: 14 Dec 1994 10:47:19 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: moreverb.sty for 2e I've installed a slightly revised version of moreverb.sty on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc The difference from the previous (2.09) version is that it sets the \fileversion and \filedate, instead of accepting the value that's left it by LaTeX2e (the upcoming version of 2e doesn't leave any such thing...) Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 19 11:05:09 1994 Date: 19 Dec 1994 15:57:46 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, a7621gac <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet>, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: CJK version 2.3 (finally) installed Some long time ago, Werner Lemberg (a7621gac@awiuni11.bitnet) announced availability of version 2.3 of his CJK package for manipulating oriental languages under LaTeX2e. Due to an hiatus in the workings of CTAN, the copy that he announced didn't get installed; however, he made a further copy for me and I have today installed it, at ftp.tex.ac.uk It will take some time to propagate to the other CTAN sites, on account of its great size, but it is at least available for anonymous ftp now. Thank you Werner for the package, and sorry about the delay. Robin Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 19 11:44:58 1994 Date: 19 Dec 1994 16:38:38 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, texhax@tex.ac.uk, uktex@tex.ac.uk, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: CTAN management problems (uploads) In the recent past, it has become apparent that the canonical address for notifying uploads (ctan-mgr@shsu.edu) is not working. For the time being, therefore, the CTAN management request that you notify ctan@shsu.edu of any uploads. If you have made an upload in the recent past and it hasn't appeared on the archives, please re-send notification of your upload to ctan@shsu.edu I have changed the README.uploads file on ftp.tex.ac.uk to reflect this change, and have agreed with Rainer Shoepf that he will do the same for ftp.dante.de and ftp.shsu.edu. We hope that the problem will not persist, and we will change the READMEs back again and will announce again in these forums when service is restored to its usual state. R Robin (Campaign for the Third Programme) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 22 13:17:10 1994 Date: 22 Dec 1994 17:20:43 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: [ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de: CTAN Submission] The package macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief has been installed on CTAN. % @stylefile{Ltall % abstract = {This document serves as User's Guide % and as documentation of the new \LaTeX-Style % or a \LaTeXe-Class. This class/style implements % a new document layout for writing letters, % according to the rules of DIN (Deutsches % Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization % institute). The User's Guide is written in % German, since we assume the class/style is of % minor interest outside Germany. Of course, % most of the macros are explained in English.}, % shortpackagename = {dinbrief}, % longpackagename = {dinbrief}, % baseformats = {\LaTeX\ 2.09 and \LaTeXe}, % version = {1.19}, % date = {21.12.1994}, % author = {K.D. Braune, R. Gussmann, % rz32@dkauni2.bitnet % braune@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de % ry46@dkauni2.bitnet % ry46@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de % Universit\"at Karlsruhe % Rechenzentrum % Postfach 6980 % 76128 Karlsruhe % +49 721 608-40 31}, % support = {yes}, % comments = {}, % requirements = {}, % incompatibilities = {}} % From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Thu Dec 22 13:47:36 1994 Date: 22 Dec 1994 18:44:48 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Subject: Winter LaTeX Release The second full release of LaTeX2e was placed on the ctan archives on December 17th. This release fixes problems reported since June and incorporates the new `inputenc' package as a standard method of supporting 8bit input. The document ltnews02.tex contains more details of the new features. See also the www page: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/ LaTeX is available from ctan hosts in the directory tex-archive/macros/latex/base A ready `unpacked' version is available in tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked Note that this includes all the files in `base' so you do not need both directories. Unfortunately a couple of small bugs are present in that release. These are fixed in the file tex-archive/macros/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx that was placed on ftp.dante.de on 22nd December (and will arrive on other ctan hosts overnight). If you have already installed LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>, simply obtain the patch file and re-run initex on latex.ltx; this will update the format to LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1. If you have not previously installed the December release, just follow the usual installation procedure outlined in install.txt, and the patch will be automatically applied. Two other files in the LaTeX distribution have been updated since the initial December release. tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools/xspace.dtx (% missing from two comment lines...) tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/amslatex/amstex.dtx (Fix to AmsLaTeX's \dots ) Merry Christmas David Carlisle LaTeX3 Project From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 29 03:40:43 1994 Date: 29 Dec 1994 09:38:13 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG Subject: New package dialogl The following collection has been installed on CTAN, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/dialogl Announcement text: ----cut here--------------------cut here--------------------cut here----- The `dialogl' collection Michael Downes, 20-Dec-1994 mjd@math.ams.org (Internet) The purpose of the `dialogl' collection is to gather together in one place a lot of information and examples---probably more than you really wanted---about how to write TeX macros to carry on dialog with the user. The centerpiece is a LaTeX package dialog.sty, which makes it easy to add bits of dialog to a LaTeX document; it can also be used with non-LaTeX macro packages, if they are plain.tex compatible. The total size of the dialogl collection is approximately 580K. Files of interest: ---dialog.sty This is a LaTeX package that defines some useful commands like \readChar{D}\reply that reads an arbitrary line of input from the user, takes the first character, uppercases it, and leaves it in the macro \reply for further use. Furthermore, the first argument (in this example `D') will be used as a default value if the user response was empty. Unlike \typein, \readChar is nearly bulletproof under all circumstances, handling even things like \, %, control-L, \newif, or unmatched { or } that might be entered by the user. Or consider the two statements \readline{0pt}\reply \checkdimen\reply\testdimen These check whether the user response was a valid TeX dimen and leave the result in the dimen register \testdimen for further use. ---menus.sty This is a superset of the `dialog' package that provides menu construction tools to make the job of presenting menus on screen relatively easy. ---listout.tex This is a utility for printing out text files. Mainly it is a testbed for the `menus' package, and thus has (I suspect) the most extensive and most bulletproof menu system ever programmed in TeX. It was originally written to work with plain TeX; my later attempts to retrofit LaTeX compatibility may have some gaps, but it seems to work in the simple tests that I have done. ---dia-driv.tex This is the driver file for printing out the documentation of dialog.sty, menus.sty, and grabhedr.sty. Run it through standard LaTeX. It is expected to appear as an article in TUGboat Real Soon Now. ---codialog.tex This is a substantially revised and augmented version of the paper `Dialog with TeX' that appeared in the Proceedings of the 1991 TUG Conference at Dedham, Massachusetts (TUGboat vol 12 no 3, December 1991, Part 2). Some nice added examples. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 2 05:20:37 1995 Date: 02 Jan 1995 09:24:00 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: MATSD@decnet.sunet.se Subject: Re: CTAN Submission matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > > Dear friends, > > A few moments ago I submitted the following files to ftp.dante.de: > > In /incoming/deleq: > 00readme.dlq > deleq.dtx > deleq.ins > which together make up an updated version of my package `deleq'. It is > my intension that these three should replace the four files > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/00readme.deleq > .../deleq/deleq.sty > .../deleq/deleq.txt > .../deleq/delex.tex > The major difference is that the files submitted today are compatible > with the doc/docstrip system. Also, minor changes in the documentation > (corrections) have been made, and the inclusion of two new commands. > The file `deleq.ins' is the installation file. > > In /incoming/floatflt: > 00readme.flt > floatflt.dtx > floatflt.ins > floatfig.txt > which together make up an updated version of the package `floatflt' > supplied by me last October. My intension is that these four files > should replace the five files > .../macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt/00readme.flt > .../floatflt/floatflt.sty > .../floatflt/floatflt.tex > .../floatflt/floatexm.tex > .../floatflt/floatfge.tex > Again, the major difference is compatibility with the doc/docstrip > system. The file `floatfig.txt' has been added to guide users of the > LaTeX 2.09 package `floatfig.sty' to the `floatflt' package, since the > latter is built on the former. Also, corrections in the documentation > have been made. The istallation dirver is the file `floatflt.ins'. > > In /incoming/version > 00readme.vrs > version.dtx > version.ins > which together make up a new package `version' which enables the user to > get version numbers printed and automatically updated (if desired) in > LaTeX documents. There is a slight problem at the moment in the use of > this package, but this is warned for in the documentation, as well as > there is a pointer to a way around this problem. I suggest that this > package is placed in a directory: > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/version > Again, the installation driver is the .ins-file. > > yours, > mats d. > > mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * > Lab. for Chemical Surface Science * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * > The Royal Institute of Technology * medan professorns var onyttiga och * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * > > Ph: +46-8-790 9945 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > These files have just been installed in the placed indicated. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 3 03:10:49 1995 Date: 03 Jan 1995 09:06:29 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: AUBORD@uni2a.unige.ch Subject: Re: CTAN Submission A.Aubord has submitted the following set of files which has been installed in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/codepage > Dear Sir, > I have putted on the "ftp.dante.de" site under the directory > name "codepage" a set of file to manipulate multiple codes page > in the same TeX document. > > The style's file works with every flavour of TeX (plain,Latex 2.09, Latex2e) > and with codes pages from PC (CP850,CP437), ISO-Latin-set One (Windows,Unix), > and Mac-Intosh, > and with the both main TeX encoding scheme (T1, OT1). > > As it is stated in the "read.me" file the different files should > be unpacked and the documentation should be printed with LaTeX2e. > I have then added a subdirectory named "installe" where all the > files are unpacked and the documentation is in DVI format (using > cmr font family). > > The different files from the "codepage" directory are: > codepage.dtx The code for documentation and package (in the LaTeX2e doc > format); > codepage.drv The driver to print all the documentation (in english); > codepage.ins The driver to unpack all the code files; > frintro.drv The driver to print the text of the introduction (french > version); > demo.zip An archive containing two files which can be used to > test installation; > lisez.moi A french readme (without 8-bits characters) > read.me the first read.me > > None of these files (except the two files in archive) contain 8-bits > characters. > > Yours sincerly, > > A.Aubord > > My address: > e-mail:aubord@uni2a.unige.ch > Surface Mail: > A.Aubord > 9 rue Charles Giron > 1203 Geneva > Switzerland. > > > From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 4 09:08:32 1995 Date: 04 Jan 1995 14:57:40 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Torsten Hilbrich Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Torsten Hilbrich writes: > I put the files in the subdirectory /incoming/bbm there. > They create font definition files and a .sty for accessing > the bbm fonts (maybe known as bbold) which are located at > CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/bbold > > This is a updated version of bbm.sty (using docstrip/doc.sty) > which is located at /tex-archive/macro/latex/contrib/others/bbm_supp > These files are now obsolete and can be removed. > > I propose the directory /tex-archive/macro/latex/contrib/supported/bbm > as the final location of the new files. I've just installed the files as indicated. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 5 10:26:03 1995 Date: 05 Jan 1995 15:13:30 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, knuutila@cs.utu.fi, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN I have installed Timo Knuutila's tpcmfont package in tex-archive/ macros/latex/contrib/other/tpcmfont here; it'll propagate to the other CTAN sites soon. The readme says: TPCMFONT: Font Definition files for "True Point Computer Modern" (and actually, for Computer Concrete in T1 encoding, too). For example, cmr11 is declared as cmr11, not as cmr10 at 10.95pt. This package is meant to replace (most of) the .fd -files distributed with the standard LaTeX. To install tpcmfont: 1) move to an empty directory or create one 2) copy tpcmfont.fdd and tpcmfont.ins therein 3) run latex on tpcmfonts.ins 4) (optional) copy the .fd -files distributed with LaTeX to some backup directory 5) replace the old .fd -files (in som LaTeX input directory) with the ones just created. 6) (optional) run latex on tpcmfonts.fdd and admire the missing documentation. Timo Knuutila knuutila@utu.fi From hobby@research.att.com Fri Jan 6 09:22:35 1995 Date: 06 Jan 1995 09:08 -0500 (EST) From: hobby@research.att.com Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: MetaPost is publicly available The MetaPost language is based on METAFONT, but it outputs PostScript and it has facilities for including TeX output and manipulating the resulting picture. The user's manual and auxiliary documentation have been available for some time as ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/162.ps.Z and ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/cstr/164.ps.Z The MetaPost interpreter was previously available only on a limited basis under non-disclosure agreement. AT&T has now placed it in the public domain. The source distribution is available as ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/research/metapost.tar.Z and it is mirrored in the CTAN archives as /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/metapost.tar.gz It requires the Unix Web2c version of TeX and Rokicki's dvips. Rokicki's dvips is needed because it has special support for using downloaded TeX fonts in included figures. There is also a DOS version of MetaPost, but its author wants to update it before putting it in the archives. It will not be available until at least mid January. I am interested in receiving bug reports but I probably will not be able to answer questions about the installation process. - John Hobby hobby@research.att.com From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 6 10:48:12 1995 Date: 06 Jan 1995 16:14:28 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Holger Debelts Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Holger Debelts writes about his SIAM package(s): > [...] > To accommodate authors who electronically typeset their manuscripts, > SIAM supports the use of \TeX. To ensure quality typesetting according > to SIAM style standards, SIAM provides a \TeX\ macro style file. > Using \TeX\ to format a manuscript should simplify the editorial process > and lessen the author's proofreading burden. It is still necessary to > proofread with care. > [...] The LaTeX version has been installed in macros/latex/contrib/other/siam the plain TeX version in macros/plain/contrib/siam -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 7 08:56:58 1995 Date: 07 Jan 1995 13:38:16 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: k.lockyear@soton.ac.uk, MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de Subject: rotating package new release I have updated my LaTeX rotating package on CTAN (macros/latex/contrib/supported/rotating). This fixes the problems I am aware of, and adds two new options: figuresleft figuresright which force the direction of rotation of sideways floats regardless of whether or not the main class has twoside turned on. If anyone finds remaining problems in the logic, please let me know! I have tested this with the December 94 LaTeX2e, but it is slightly dodgy because it does some redefines of internal float macros. So keep an eye on it if you use it Sebastian From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 7 17:27:26 1995 Date: 07 Jan 1995 22:22:11 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: kb@cs.umb.edu Subject: new unixkit binaries I have updated systems/unix/unixkit. This contains gzipped tar files for 7 different Unix architectures, each with binaries for all of the web2c TeX and MF stuff, xdvik and dvipsk. There is a share.tar.gz with man pages, pool files, and configuration files. This is not a TeX kit - it has no macros, fonts, nothing. Its for people who are having problems getting the basic compiles done. This lot is built with kpathsea 2.5 for everything; this means that you get a single runtime config file which controls all the paths used by the programs. I for one am most grateful for Karl for giving us this excellent new tool. Please thank CERN, whose 7 reference Unix architectures are covered here, for ensuring that this got done Sebastian Rahtz From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 9 07:40:39 1995 Date: 09 Jan 1995 13:33:25 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Martin Schroeder Subject: Re: CTAN Submission on 94/12/09: count1to and everyshi Martin Schroeder writes: > >I have uploaded the following files into > >ftp.dante.de//incoming: > > > >count1to/count1to.dtx > >count1to/count1to.ins > >everyshi/everyshi.dtx > >everyshi/everyshi.ins > > > >These are packages for LaTeX2e; they are supported. > > > >from count1to.dtx: > >%% docstring = "LaTeX package which sets count1 to count9, > >%% which can be used to select certain pages > >%% with a driver. > >%% Uses the everyshi package." > > > >from everyshi.dtx: > >%% docstring = "LaTeX package which defines a new hook > >%% \EveryShipout". > > > >they should be put into macros/latex/contrib/supported. > > > >Greetings > > Martin > > It seems my mail got lost somewhere, since the files are _still_ in > ftp.dante.de//incoming (there are some more files, by the way). > > Any chance of my uploads being moved to the right places? :-) > > Greetings > Martin > > -- > Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE > \bye % This is the way the file ends, not with a bang but with a bye > Donald E. Knuth, The TeXbook, p340 These packages have been installed on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi macros/latex/contrib/supported/count1to For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 10 08:10:24 1995 Date: 10 Jan 1995 13:04:22 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Myself Subject: Re: CTAN submission of formlett.sty (upgrade) Zhuhan Jiang writes: > I have uploaded an upgrade of formlett.sty ( currently the > file in CTAN is named formlett.tex ) to /incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > formlett.sty is a comprehensive package for form letters or mail merge. > The upgrade now supports LaTeX2e, with a few minor new features. > > Recommended place: macros/generic > > Zhuhan Jiang > University of New England > Armidale NSW 2351, Australia I have installed the file in its recommended place, and have deleted formlett.tex Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 10 09:11:34 1995 Date: 10 Jan 1995 15:07:07 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission Roland Weibezahn submitted xtem to CTAN. It has been installed in support/xtem_texmenu The announcement follows: > 5 files: > > --rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1271300 Jan 6 12:02 xtem_texmenu.3.12.1.tar.gz > --rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 50564 Jan 6 12:02 xtem_texmenu.README > --rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1858 Jan 6 12:03 xtem_texmenu.README_3.12.1 > --rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 129080 Jan 6 12:03 xtem_texmenu_eng.ps.gz > --rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 137351 Jan 6 12:03 xtem_texmenu_ger.ps.gz > > > xtem is an X11 TeX-menu which allows to prepare documents using TeX/LaTeX/... > very comfortable (the user can edit and format at the same time, > use a spell checker, previewer, select a printer comfortably, > get help information including (Hypertext) LaTeX-Syntax etc. etc.) > > xtem is mutlilingual (english or german by the user's choice). > > xtem is written in Tcl/Tk/TclX and runs with many Unix and similar systems > > > we (the authors: G. Lamprecht, W. Lotz, R. Weibezahn) support xtem > and recommend palcing xtem to > > tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu > > Sincerely yours, > > Roland Weibezahn > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Roland Weibezahn Phone : +49-421-218-3532 > LRW Bremen Telefax: +49-421-218-4112 > c/o University Bremen > Bibliothekstr. 1 Postbox: 330440 > 28359 Bremen 28334 Bremen > Germany email: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 11 11:17:14 1995 Date: 11 Jan 1995 16:06:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: asnd@erich.triumf.ca Subject: relsize.sty I have installed Donald Arseneau's relsize.sty on CTAN as tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/relsize.sty It's on ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will propagate to the other sites soon. This is a LaTeX2e package; its principal command is \relsize{step} which takes you sizes from your present size. Thus if you start at \normalsize, \relsize{-2} will take you to \footnotesize and \relsize{2} will take you to \Large. Thanks, Donald, once again, for a useful piece of work... Robin Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 12 05:27:06 1995 Date: 12 Jan 1995 11:14:36 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Roland Winkler t2012 Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Roland Winkler writes: > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a subdirectory > eqnarray with the two files eqnarray.drv and eqnarray.dtx. They > contain a LaTeX style file and its documentation for a LaTeX2e > equationarray environment (I hope everything is okay). This > environment combines the LaTeX array (FM) and equation environment > in that each line of the array has an equation number. Thus it is a > generalization of eqnarray. I recommend to put it in the directory > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported > I have installed these files as indicated. Thanks a lot For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 05:29:11 1995 Date: 12 Jan 1995 10:22:47 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Basil K. Malyshev Subject: Re: TrueType/Macintosh version of the CM fonts many thanks to Basil for the following sebastian > I have uploaded TrueType/Macintosh version of the CM fonts .... > /tex-archive/fonts/cm/type1/bakoma. > It will creates file README.mrf and subdirectory 'mrf' with fonts. > > The reason of this upload is that > several mens have attempted to do such fonts via conversion > from TrueType/MS-Windows version by different freely available and/or > shareware programs but without success because of encoding problems. > > This fonts was made simply, by recoding Type1 version with subsequent > convertion by FontMonger. > However, not all users have FontMonger and time to do this. > > Basil K. Malyshev, 01/12/95 00:33:27, Geneve, Switzerland. > E-Mail: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch or malyshev@mx.ihep.su From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 13 07:48:27 1995 Date: 13 Jan 1995 13:38:47 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de writes: > a) > We have put the following files: > Server: ftp.dante.de > Directory: /incoming/dinbrief > Files: dinbrief.dtx > dinbrief.ins > readme > > b) > Whats this? > > This class/style implements > a new document layout for writing letters, > according to the rules of DIN (Deutsches > Institut f\"ur Normung, German standardization > institute). > > Updated version to work correctly with PSNFSS. > > c) > Location: > - Replace the old version 12.94 in > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief > Thanks for the submission. The files have been installed in the palces indicated. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 13 07:50:36 1995 Date: 13 Jan 1995 13:44:03 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: sawade@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Guido Sawade writes: > I have uploaded > dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, dvipslib.zip and readme.1st > onto > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/ > > These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for emTeX for > 386/486 computers (32Bit!). > > The files should replace the former in > /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/ (and > /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/ respectively) > > Main features: > Whith respect for emx/gcc-0.9a dvips32.exe runs under > DOS computers without coprocessor as well. > > Configuration file config.ps and completly rewritten > readme.1st have been prepared for supporting other > implementations than emTeX (PCTeX for instance) > > The required 32bit extender (emx, rsx) are included as > additional zip files, preventing unwanted overwriting > of existing newer versions when unpacking the dps558b.zip > > > --- > Gruss / Regards > Guido Sawade > TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN 0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG These files have been installed. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 13 09:49:43 1995 Date: 13 Jan 1995 14:43:24 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Subject: Re: Calligraphic font on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming Quoth Peter Vanroose: Below is a slightly extended README-file, including the three file names. I have also put these three files, together with the readme file, in the script.zip archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming The other four files script.* and README.script can just be removed. Suggested place for installation: /fonts/script/ or some other name that you would suggest (instead of script). Peter. - ----------------------- script/README ------------------------- Organization: ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Date sent: Fri, 13 Jan 95 09:32:21 +0100 From: Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: Calligra Send reply to: METAFONT Distribution List One of my first (and I must admit, the only successful) tries with metafont, several years ago, (1987 ?) resulted in a calligraphic font. It worked for our matrix printer at that time (180 dpi?) However, I never succeeded in really having it produce 300 dpi or whatever. Maybe someone wants to give it a try? MJP>> Seems OK at 300dpi It was said at that time that the output resembles my own hand writing. Of course, I shaped the letters after my writing, but apart from giving it reference points, I let Metafont do the big work of doing the roundings. All letters `match' each other in that they end where the next one begins. (There are some minor exceptions to this, but that also applies to my own handwriting.) The relevant files are: script.mf -- contains all the essential METAFONT code (460 lines) script10.mf -- for producing the 10pt font (4 lines) scriptb10.mf -- for producing the bold 10pt font (4 lines) ----------------------- script/README ends -------------------- I've installed the things as suggested; if someone else has programmed _their_ handwriting, we would probably make subdirectories of fonts/script Thanks for those, Peter For the CTAN team Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 16 09:28:51 1995 Date: 16 Jan 1995 13:59:35 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Stan Devitt Subject: Re: Submission to Tex-Archives Stan Devitt has uploaded latex2e macros for working with Maple's Export to Latex facility. The files have been installed in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/maple The description is appended. For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf > Subject: > ======== > > latex2e macros for working with Maple's Export to Latex > facility. > > Overview > ========= > With Maple V Release 3, entire Maple worksheets can be exported in > a format which can be processed by LaTeX. > > These styles are the LaTeX2e versions of corresponding styles found on > the distribution tape and are designed for use with Maple V Release 3's > "Export to LaTeX" facility. > > Files and Directories > ===================== > > mapleenv.sty - A latex2e package defining the basic maple environments > and commands: > > \begin{mapleinput}..\end{mapleinput} > \begin{maplelatex}..\end{maplelatex} > \begin{maplettyout}..\end{maplettyout} > \mapleplot{...} > > maplems.sty - A sample package that uses the above with specific page > sizes and headings suitable for a Maple Worksheet. > > mtn.cls - A sample document class suitable for submissions to the Maple > Technical Newsletter > > They are all based on Maple's Export to LaTeX Facilities. > > maplems.tex > maplems.ps > > The document maplems.tex provides limited documentation on > how to use the styles. > > Features > ======== > Special Maple environments have been parameterized to allow > suppression of the environment at the time it is processed by latex. > > e.g. You can use > > \begin{mapleinput} > ... > \end{mapleinput} > > or > \begin{mapleinput}[q] > ... > \end{mapleinput} > > The latter will not appear in your tex document. This > feature is used to hide commands, and in effect, turns a Maple > worksheet into a meta formatter (i.e., format this series in latex). > > maplems.sty > ----------- > > To use the sample style maplems.sty to define an overall page layout > and to define the special maple environments used by "Export to LaTeX" > do > > \documentclass[11pt]{article} > \usepackage{maplems} > \begin{document} > ... > \end{document} > > This style makes use of the environments defined in mapleenv.sty To > suppress the processing of special characters in the regular text, use > the option "ignorespecials" as in > > \usepackage[ignorespecials]{maplems} > > This option is most useful for quickly previewing the results of > "export to latex" from Maple V Release 3. However, beware that the > suppression of these special characters such as ^ and _ disables much of > the real power of latex in the body of the textual paragraphs. > > mapleenv.sty > ------------ > > To use the environments found in mapleenv.sty directly as part of your > own style do: > > \documentclass[11pt]{article} > \usepackage{mapleenv} > \begin{document} > ... > \end{document} > > The macros in mapleenv.sty do NOT affect the overall page dimensions > or the general page layout of the document. > > mtn.cls > -------------- > > To use this document class, construct your document as: > > \documentclass[11pt]{mtn} > \usepackage{palatino} > \begin{document} > ... > \end{document} > > For a sample, see the newsletter article, MTNarticle.tex > > For additional information, contact doc@maplesoft.on.ca . > > January, 1995 > From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 19 13:13:16 1995 Date: 19 Jan 1995 18:06:29 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: N.F.Drakos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk Subject: New version of LaTeX2HTML installed Nikos Drakos has submitted, and I have installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk, a new version of LaTeX2HTML, replacing that found on CTAN under tex-archive/support/latex2html Thanks, Nikos (for the CTAN team) Robin Fairbairns Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 19 20:19:33 1995 Date: 20 Jan 1995 01:16:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Subject: Re: CTAN submission I have installed CJK v2.4 from Werner Lemberg on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and have removed the previous version (2.3). This is a large installation, and it may take some time to propagate to the other CTAN sites. The package is available via tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK/2_4 japanese/CJK/2_4 korean/CJK/2_4 This version also includes Unicode support, and Werner wants a pointer to the package reflecting that fact; however, we don't as yet have an obvious location for such a pointer. The CTAN team will decide on what to do about such things, and will announce the decision when it has been arrived at... Thanks, Werner, yet again. (for the CTAN team) Robin Fairbairns From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Jan 19 18:57:06 1995 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 00:32:40 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: unicode@unicode.org, soft-authors@ifcss.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Announcing CJK 2.5 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) This is the LaTeX2e style package CJK Version 2.4 (3-Jan-1995) =============================================================== It contains the following files: history.txt Package history CJK.txt This file CJK.sty A LaTeX2e style file to enable CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) logographs (i.e. Hanzi/Kanji/Hangul) with LaTeX2e CJK.enc Master Encoding File standard.enc Bg5.enc Bg5pp.enc KS.enc utf8.enc pmCsmall.enc pmCsmpp.enc pmCbig.enc Encoding scheme files Bg5.chr standard.chr hangul.chr utf8.chr pmC.chr Character encoding files Bg5conv.tex preprocessor for Big 5 encoded text files bg5latex.bat a batch file (for DOS) to demonstrate use of Bg5conv.tex CNS.sty CNS.enc CNS.chr CNS encoding to be used together with a different CJK encoding following Christian Wittern's CEF (Chinese Encoding Framework) UBg5.fd UGBs.fd UGBt.fd Font definition files for Chinese (examples only!) UJIS.fd Font definition file for Japanese (example only!) Uhangul.fd Font definition file for standard Hangul fonts Uhanja.fd Font definition file for Hanja font (example only!) Uutf8.fd Font definition file for Unicode font (example only!) UpmC-Bg5.fd UpmC-GBs.fd UpmC-GBt.fd UpmC-JIS.fd UpmC-KS.fd Font definition files for (old) pmC-fonts UCNS-1.fd UCNS-2.fd UCNS-3.fd UCNS-4.fd UCNS-5.fd UCNS-6.fd UCNS-7.fd Font definition files for CNS fonts (examples only!) vf/*.vf tfm/*.tfm virtual fonts and metric files for hangul standard fonts to use in combination with the font libraries lj_han and lj_han1 (available at the CTAN hosts) utils/hbf2gf.w CWEB source file for hbf2gf utils/hbf2gf.c C code file extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf2gf.dvi Documentation extracted from the CWEB source files utils/hbf2gf.cfg Configuration file example utils/hbf2gf.exe Bound executable for DOS and OS/2 utils/hbf.h utils/hbf.c Ross Paterson's HBF API (with small extensions) utils/Makefile Makefile for hbf2gf utils/emx.exe utils/emx.dll utils/rsx.exe Runtime binaries for DOS and OS/2 (must be in the path) This is freely distributable under the GNU Public License. Use --- Use CJK.sty as a package, e.g. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{CJK} . Two new environments \begin{CJK}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK} and \begin{CJK*}{encoding}{shape} ... \end{CJK*} are defined: encoding the following encodings are currently implemented in CJK.enc (for CNS encoding see below): Bg5 (Big 5) GBs (GuoBiao with simplified characters, G1 = GB 2312-80) GBt (GuoBiao with traditional characters, G1 = GB 12345-90) JIS (Japanese Industry Standard, G1 = JIS X0208-1990) KS (hangul and hanja, G1 = KSC 5601-1987) utf8 (UTF 8 (Unicode Transformation format 8), also called UTF 2 or FSS-UTF) The encodings (except Big 5 and UTF 8) are simplified EUC (Extended UNIX Code) character sets without single shifts. The character set slot G1 stands for two byte encodings with byte values taken from the GR (Graphic Right) character range 0xA1-0xFE (as defined in ISO 2022). For compatibility with the pmC package these additional encodings are defined: pmC-Bg5, pmC-GBs, pmC-GBt, pmC-JIS, and pmC-KS. It's not encouraged to use these encodings because of wasting fonts. If possible, convert your original CJK-bitmaps with hbf2gf (see below) to CJK-encodings. shape It is impossible to know what fonts are available at your site; look at the example .fd-files how to create appropriate .fd-files suiting your needs. If you use the KS environment, this parameter is unused (see below). The CJK* environment will swallow unprotected spaces and newlines after a CJK character, whereas CJK will not. This is a very realistic example: \begin{CJK*}{GBs}{kai} ... Text in GuoBiao encoding ... \end{CJK*} How it works ------------ Asiatic logographs can't be represented with one byte per character. (At least) two bytes are needed, and the most common encoding schemes (GB, Big 5, JIS, KS etc.) have a certain range for the first byte (usually 0xA1-OxFE or a part of it) which signales that this and the next byte represents an Asiatic logograph. This means that plain ASCII-text (i.e. characters between 0x00 and 0x7F) will be left undisturbed, and most characters of the extended ASCII character set (0x80-0xFF) will be assigned to a CJK encoding. Due to the internal architecture of TeX it is impossible to support ISO 2022 escape sequences as used with MULE (Multi Language Emacs). MULE is a common extension of GNU-Emacs to support many non-English scripts, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew etc. CJK.sty will make the characters 0xA1-OxFE active inside of an environment and assigns the macros \CJK@char and \CJK@charx to the active characters which select the proper font. The real mechanism is a bit more complicated to assure robustness (it was borrowed and modified from german.sty) and correct handling of punctuation characters. The encodings ------------- CJK.sty defines internally \CJK@standardEncoding, \CJK@Bg5Encoding, \CJK@KSEncoding, \CJK@utf8Encoding, and for compatibility with pmC, \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding. \CJK@standardEncoding will be used for encodings with the second byte in the range 0xA0-0xFE (GB, JIS). \CJK@Bg5Encoding will be used for Big 5 encoding (e.g. NTU fonts) with the second byte in the range 0x40-0xFE. \CJK@KSEncoding will be used for KS encoding. Two sets of subfonts are defined, one for Hangul syllables and elements, and a second for Hanja. For more details see below. \CJK@utf8Encoding will be used for Unicode in UTF 8. The first byte is in the range 0xC0-0xDF for two byte values and in the range 0xE0-0xEF for three byte values. The other bytes are in the range 0x80-0xBF. Note that CJK expects two hexadecimal digits as a running number in the font name instead of two decimal digits. Use the option `unicode on' if you use hbf2gf to transform bitmap fonts in HBF format to .pk fonts as used by CJK.sty . \CJK@pmCsmallEncoding and \CJK@pmCbigEncoding can be activated with \pmCsmall (this is the default) and \pmCbig inside the CJK environment. Note that the original pmC fonts have two character sizes per font (the bigger ones with an offset of -128); pmC-Big 5 encoded fonts cannot contain big characters. The names of the fonts in the UpmC-xxx.fd files reflect the modifications added by Marc Leisher to the original poor man's Chinese (pmC) package written by Thomas Ridgeway . The fonts --------- CJK.sty uses NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme, now part of LaTeX2e) which has some advantages over the font selection offered with pmC (for plain TeX and LaTeX 2.09): o TeX fonts are loaded only on demand. This is especially useful with Asiatic logographs. If you have e.g. three Chinese characters in your text, pmC must load the whole Chinese font (about 85 TeX fonts), whereas LaTeX2e loads only three fonts normally. o As long as the limit of 256 TeX fonts will not be exceeded, you can use as many CJK fonts as you like (e.g. simplified and traditional Chinese characters together with Japanese fonts in different sizes) --- pmC is limited to two sizes and can only have two CJK fonts at the same time. In the web2c-TeX package (for UNIX) you will find a patch which allows the use of more than 256 TeX fonts. o You need not to care about the right size of CJK fonts in footnotes etc. They will obey the NFSS (although changing other attributes except font series and size will be done with \CJKenc and \CJKshape). For Hangul font selection see below. Of course you must have access to bitmap CJK fonts --- use hbf2gf to convert them to .pk-fonts. See the last section for availability of precompiled fonts. If you chose one font per active character as with the pmC macros, you would waste character space (256 characters per font are possible with TeX 3). Therefore CJK.sty expects the whole Asiatic font splitted in TeX subfonts with 256 characters each. An example: GuoBiao-encoded simplified characters in song style at 12pt: ^ ^ ^^ ^^ first byte second byte TeX font offset ---------------------------------------------- 0xA1 0xA1-OxFE gsso1201 0 0xA2 0xA1-0xFE gsso1201 94 0xA3 0xA1-0xE4 gsso1201 188 0xA3 0xE5-0xFE gsso1202 0 0xA4 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 26 0xA5 0xA1-0xFE gsso1202 120 . . . 0xFE 0xA1-OxFE gsso1235 38 For converting to .pk-files with hbf2gf, you must get the appropriate HBF (Hanzi Bitmap Font) header files from ifcss.org (or create if you can't find the right one); almost all Chinese bitmap fonts in the public domain together with their HBF headers are collected there. These HBF files document CJK fonts completely. Using hbf2gf ------------- hbf2gf converts CJK bitmaps with an HBF header file into .gf-files (and consequently into .pk fonts). Syntax: hbf2gf configuration_file Keywords in the configuration file must start a line, the appropriate values being on the same line separated with one or more blanks or tabs. Here is an example configuration file jfs56.cfg (please refer to hbf2gf.dvi for a description of the keywords): hbf_header jfs56.hbf mag_x 1.482 x_offset 3 y_offset -8 comment jianti fansongti 56x56 pixel font magnified and adapted for 10pt nmb_files -1 output_name gsfs10 checksum 123456789 dpi_x 600 dpi_y 600 coding codingscheme GB 2312-80 encoded TeX text pk_directory d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\ tfm_directory d:\china\tfm\ rm_command del cp_command copy long_extension off job_extension .cmd And here the results: input files: jfs56.a - jfs56.e, jfs56.hbf program call: hbf2gf jfs56.cfg intermediate files: gsfs10.cmd, gsfs1001.gf - gsfs1032.gf, gsfs10.pl batch file call: gsfs10.cmd output files: d:\china\pixel.ljh\600dpi\gsfs1001.pk - gsfs1032.pk, d:\china\tfm\gsfs1001.tfm - gsfs1032.tfm [gsfs: GuoBiao simple encoded FanSong style ^ ^ ^ ^ It's hard to overcome the DOS restriction of 8 characters in a file name if you need two characters as a running number...] This would be a correct entry in UGBs.fd: \DeclareFontShape{U}{GBs}{m}{fansong}{ <-10> CJKfixed * gsfs10 <10> sCJKfixed * gsfs10 <10.95> sCJKfixed * gsfs12 <12> sCJKfixed * gsfs12 <14.4> sCJKfixed * gsfs14 <17.28> sCJKfixed * gsfs17 <20.74-> CJKfixed * gsfs17}{} assuming that you have created fonts for 10, 12, 14.4, and 17.28pt. Korean input ------------ (The status of this feature is experimental. I can't speak Korean and would be glad to hear comments from people who have any idea what is happening here :-) There are already different packages handling Hangul: hlatex, htex etc.; there is one package which also can handle hanja: jhtex. The great difference of the packages just mentioned compared to CJK is the use of a preprocessor which converts text files containing KS encoded text into a TeX file. To do so has some advantages, but the output is completely unreadable. Additionally the output lines become rather lengthy (a two byte character code will be converted into a string up to 11 characters long), which may confuse some editors; and if you have a text which contains Chinese or Japanese also, you can't use KS to TeX converters because the code ranges overlap and converters are not able to recognize which is Korean and which is not. In contrast, CJK does not need a preprocessor and the problems mentioned above are nonexistent, but you get nothing for free: CJK uses the virtual font mechanism to map the hangul syllables onto Hangul Elements (11 virtual fonts map to 2 real fonts), whereas preprocessors directly use the real fonts. If you want a complete Korean environment, I recommend jhtex. There you will also find a hangul.sty which modifies (among others) the sectioning commands to enable Korean chapter counting and Korean headers. To use KS encoding, say \begin{CJK}{KS}{} ... \end{CJK} . These font switches are available inside the environment: fonts from hLaTeX: * \mj MyoungJo (default) \gt Gothic \gs BootGulssi \gr Graphic \dr Dinaru fonts from jhTeX: * \hgt Hangul Gothic * \hmj Hangul MyoungJo (MunHwaBu fonts) * \hpg Hangul Pilgi \hol Hangul Outline (MyoungJo) If a font is marked with a star, bold series are available. You will find the hangul fonts in the lj_han and lj_han1 packages. These are emTeX libraries for 300 dpi resolution which can be easily converted back to .pk fonts using the fontlib package of emTeX. If you need different resolutions, you must obtain the original metafont sources of the hlatex_mf.tar.gz and the jhtex packages. Note that the shapes of Hangul elements are not satisfactory. You find the needed virtual fonts and virtual metric files in the vf and tfm directories. Move the .tfm files into a directory TeX will scan. You need a dvi driver which understands virtual fonts -- move the .vf files into a directory your dvi driver will scan. For non-hangul characters inside the KS environment (i.e. the first byte in the ranges 0xA1-0xAF except 0xA4 and 0xC9-0xFD), fonts are taken from Uhanja.fd . This enables the use of many hangul fonts and perhaps only one or two different hanja fonts. If you don't want the overlay of hangul fonts from Uhangul.fd, say \CJKhanja. The opposite command is \CJKhangul. Archaic hangul elements (KS 0xA4D5-0xA4FE) and the character KS 0xA4D4 are only accessible if \CJKhanja is active. You should convert your KS hanja fonts using hbf2gf as described above. Bg5conv.tex ----------- Using the Bg5text environment is a mess. Having an external preprocessor needs access to a compiler, which is not always the case. Thus I wrote Bg5conv.tex, a preprocessor for Big 5 characters to overcome the restrictions of the Bg5text environment. Each Big 5 character `XY' will be converted into the form `XZZZ.'; ZZZ is a decimal number followed by a dot. The use of Bg5conv.tex is completely transparent, no changes to your document are necessary. The use is simple: before calling Bg5text you must define \CJKin (and optionally \CJKout); after conversion the output file will be processed like a normal input file. Bg5conv.tex inserts additionally the (empty) macro \CJKpreproc as the first line of the output. Here is an example batch file (bg5latex.bat) for DOS which demonstrates the use of Bg5conv.tex . Note that you must not use an extension for the input file here (I am too lazy to write a sophisticated shell program - any volunteers are welcome) (default names for \CJKin and \CJKout are `Bg5input.tex' and `Bg5input.cjk' respectively): call latex \def\CJKin{%1} \def\CJKout{%1.cjk} \input Bg5conv.tex call latex %1.cjk You say bg5latex mytext to get mytext.tex processed. It's not possible to mix Big 5 encoding with different encodings (except CNS) if Bg5conv.tex is used (and I doubt whether this should be ever necessary). CNS.sty ------- (The status of this feature is experimental.) Christian Wittern develops CEF, the Chinese Encoding Framework. This will enable the use of Big 5 as the primary encoding with CNS 11643-1992 as a secondary character set for characters not included in Big 5. Inputting CNS characters into a text will be done with a data base. To facilitate this, the first bytes of the three byte CNS encoding are mapped onto the characters 0x81-0x87. Say \usepackage[options]{CNS} to use CNS (CJK.sty will be loaded automatically). If you need to specify options for CJK, say \usepackage[options]{CJK} \usepackage[options]{CNS} The possible options for CNS.sty are `compressed' and `uncompressed' to indicate the use of compressed (256 characters per font a la CJK.sty) or uncompressed fonts (94 characters per plane as in pmC). Default is compressed. CNS encoding is available only in CJK environments; the commands \CNSchar (of course with three parameters for byte 1 to 3) and \CNSshape are similar to their CJK counterparts. Default value of \CNSshape is `song'. Uncompressed fonts should be named equal to pmC fonts (font names ending with hex numbers). The .fd-files ------------- CJK fonts can be installed as easy as normal TeX fonts! CJK.sty defines four new size commands: CJK corresponds to `' (empty) sCJK corresponds to `s' CJKfixed corresponds to `fixed' sCJKfixed corresponds to `sfixed' . The difference between these size functions and the original commands defined by LaTeX2e is that a CJK size function defines a class of fonts. If you say as an example \DeclareFontShape{U}{Bg5}{m}{song}{<6> <7> <8> sCJKfixed * b5so07}{} , LaTeX2e searches for fonts named b5so0701 - b5so0758 if the font size is 6, 7 or 8 pt; with other words, the CJK size functions append two digits to select the proper subfonts. These digits are defined in the \CJK@...Encoding macros; the macro \CJK@plane holds the current value (in pmC compatibility mode, \CJK@plane holds hexadecimal numbers). See the example .fd files how to define font substitutions additionally. Caveats ------- o You can of course use CJK-environments inside of a CJK-environment, but it is possible that you must increase the so called save size (with emTeX you can adjust this with -ms=...). The CJK package has optional arguments which controls the scope of CJK environments: lowercase If you want to use \lowercase with encodings inside CJK environments. You need less save size using the `encapsulated' option if `lowercase' is not set. You must use Bg5conv.tex to use Big 5 characters with this option. global \lccode (if `lowercase' set), \uccode, \catcode and the activation of the characters 0xA1-0xFE will be globally modified (\lccode and \uccode reset to 0). This is the most economical mode concerning save size, but you can't have CJK environments inside of CJK environments or other environments which manipulate the character range 0xA1-0xFE. Packages which change some of the above values only once (e.g. in the preamble) will also not work after the first use of a CJK environment. local Only \lccode (if `lowercase' set) and \uccode will be modified globally. This is the default. You can stack environments. encapsulated If you want to use DC fonts outside of the CJK environment with \uppercase and \lowercase working correctly, you must use this option. All values mentioned above will be local, so you can stack environments. This option probably causes an overflow of the save size. Say \usepackage[option]{CJK} to activate `option'. o There is an other way to overcome the problem of stacked environments. CJK implements two low level CJK attribute switches: \CJKenc and \CJKshape, which take the same arguments as the corresponding values of the CJK environment. If you need two different encodings/shapes at the same output line, you must use these macros. An example: \begin{CJK}{GBs}{song} ... Text in GBs song ... \CJKenc{GBt} ... Text in GBt song ... \CJKshape{kai} ... Text in GBt kai ... \end{CJK} Contrary to \begin{CJK}{...}{...} it's not necessary to start a new line after \CJKenc. o The characters \, {, and } are used as second bytes in the Big 5 encoding. If you write Big 5 text mixed with other encodings, you should use the Bg5text environment which changes the category codes of these characters. The command prefix is now the forward slash `/', and the grouping characters are `(' and `)' respectively. An example: \begin{CJK}{Bg5}{song} \begin{Bg5text} .... /begin(center) .... /end(center) .... /end(Bg5text) \end{CJK} To get the `/', `(', and `)' characters, write `//', `/(', and `/)' inside the Bg5text environment. This environment is ugly, and some commands like \newcommand will not work in it. o Instead of using the Bg5text environment you can protect the offending second bytes with a backslash, i.e. \{, \}, \\ (using a non- Chinese editor). This will not increase the readability of the Chinese text, but for short texts it's perhaps more comfortable. Alas, it doesn't work in page header commands because the macros \{ etc. will not be expanded. o Be careful not to use any commands inside the Bg5text environment which write something into an external file (commands like \chapter etc.). o If it's not possible to avoid Big 5 character codes with \, {, or } outside of the Bg5text environment (e.g. having Big 5-text in a \chapter or \section command), you can replace them with the \CJKchar macro manually: \section{This is a problematic Big 5 character: \CJKchar{169}{92}} The parameters are the first and second byte of the Big 5 character code. You can also use hexadecimal or octal notation. o A similar command is \Unicode{byte1}{byte2} to access Unicode characters (not in UTF 8) directly; the parameters are the first and second byte of the Unicode. o CJK will disable \uppercase (preserving the command as \CJKuppercase) if you select Big 5 encoding without using Bg5conv.tex . This affects the headers of the standard classes and \Roman only in standard LaTeX2e. Be aware that some packages and style files may use \uppercase for dirty tricks (e.g. to define macros for active characters). o \uppercase and \lowercase will work with NONE of the CJK encoding schemes if you use DC fonts because these 8-bit fonts have most \lccode's and \uccode's set in the range 0x80-0xFF. o You should define for each TeX font size a CJK font (as an example, use sCJKfixed for good sizes and CJKfixed for bad sizes, and LaTeX2e will complain loudly about wrong sizes on the screen). LaTeX2e will also do the job if some size definitions are missing (using defined sizes), but expect a font warning for each (!) CJK character affected under certain circumstances. Possible errors --------------- o If you write Chinese (or Japanese) text, don't forget to suppress the linefeed character with a trailing `%' in the CJK environment, otherwise you get unwanted spaces in the output. On the other side, say `\ ' or something similar inside the CJK* environment to get a space after a CJK character. o To prevent a line break before a CJK character (e.g. between an opening (non-CJK) parenthesis and a CJK character), say \CJKkern. This command prevents the insertion of \CJKglue before the CJK character. You may wonder about the curious name: a small kern (1 sp) between two CJK characters signales that the first one is a punctuation character. o If you get the error message: "\CJK@min (or \CJK@max) undefined", you should insert \newpage before saying \end{CJK}. This can happen if LaTeX writes the headers (or footers) of a page containing CJK characters after closing the CJK environment. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by CJK characters, try to increase \CJKglue. It defines the glue between CJK characters; the default definition is \newcommand{\CJKglue}{\hskip 0pt plus 0.08\baselineskip} . \CJKglue will be inserted by CJK before each Chinese character (except punctuation characters as defined in the punctuation tables; see CJK.enc), and none after. You should separate non-Chinese text from CJK characters with spaces to enable hyphenation. o If you get overfull hboxes caused by Hangul syllables, try to increase \CJKtolerance. The default definition is \newcommand{\CJKtolerance}{400} . o If you encounter a TeX stack overflow caused by {\CJKenc{new_encoding} ....}, you should write \CJKenc{new_encoding} ... \CJKenc{old_encoding} instead. Or (better) increase the stack size as discussed above. How to get CJK and related software ----------------------------------- o You will find CJK and software related to TeX at the CTAN hosts (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network). These completely identical ftp servers (concerning TeX software) are ftp.shsu.edu Sam Houston University Texas (USA) ftp.dante.de DANTE (Deutsche Anwendervereinigung fuer TeX) Heidelberg (Germany) ftp.tex.ac.uk Cambridge University Cambridge (England) You should use the nearest one, or even better, a local mirror of a CTAN host. CJK will be found unpacked. To receive the complete package, go to the parent directory of CJK and say get CJK.zip or (whichever is appropriate for your system) get CJK.tar.gz The CJK directory and all subdirectories will be sent to you in compressed form. Be aware that not all mirrors of CTAN sites support compression of directories. o The main site for Chinese related software is ifcss.org (USA). Mirrors are ftp.edu.tw (Taiwan), cnd.org (USA) and kth.se (Sweden). Here you find free Chinese fonts, Text editors etc. Note that while updating this text (3-Jan-1994) ifcss.org has still stopped ftp access due to networking problems. o The main site for Korean related software is cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr (Korea). I don't know any mirror sites of this host. At ifcss.org you will find a 24x24 hanja font with HBF header in /software/fonts/misc/hbf. o Sam Chiu compiled the fonts jfs56 (GBs encoded) and ntu_kai48 (Big 5 encoded) for various sizes with 600dpi resolution. You will find them (about 22 MByte uncompressed!) at the CTAN hosts in /tex-archive/fonts/chinese Author ------ Werner Lemberg Goldschlagstr. 52/14 A-1150 Vienna Austria/Europe Please report any errors or suggestions to this email-address. From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu Jan 19 19:02:41 1995 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 00:53:59 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: unicode@ifcss.org, linux-asia@orac.iinet.com.au, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Addendum to CJK 2.4 (!) I just have uploaded the newest version of CJK to ftp.tex.ac.uk . It should be available soon in tex-archive/languages/chinese/CJK on all CTAN hosts (ftp.dante.de, pip.shsu.edu, ftp.tex.ac.uk) and its mirrors. In a separate posting you will find a complete description of CJK. Happy TeXing! Werner ============================================================================== Version 2.4: new: 3-Jan-1995 UTF 8 (Unicode) scheme added. option `unicode' to hbf2gf added: if `on', a two-digit hexadecimal number will be used as a running number starting with the value of the first byte of the first code range. Bg5conv.tex added: this is a small preprocessor which converts Big 5 encoded characters `XY' into the form `XZZZ.' . Now you can use Big 5 encoding without the annoying Bg5text environment. Auxiliary files: Bg5pp.enc, pmCsmpp.enc, and bg5latex.bat . changed: new versions of emx.exe, emx.dll (ver. 0.9a) and rsx.exe (rel. 5) errors: hbf2gf sometimes drew one pixel too much (You Rey-Jer ). pmC encodings didn't work (Zhang Zhengyou ). \CJK@charToHex and \CJK@numbToHex could erroneously change page counter (Li Yu-Ray ). From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 20 04:11:14 1995 Date: 20 Jan 1995 09:48:48 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Michael Mehlich Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just submitted a package for LaTeX2e to > CTAN:ftp.dante.de/incoming > > NAME OF FILE: hyper.tar.gz > this archive file contains a complete > > directory called hyper > FUNCTIONALITY: > adds html-markups to the dvi-file > no changes to the original document are > necessary > RECOMMENDED PLACE: > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper > > Ciao > Michael Mehlich The package has been installed in the place indicated. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 20 08:24:13 1995 Date: 20 Jan 1995 13:18:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: List of TeX and plain TeX commands? In article <3fm8mm$uu9@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, Joachim Schrod wrote: >In article <3flrhe$m8b@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, SMOYE@brownvm.brown.edu () writes: >> Is there a plain-text listing of all of the TeX and plain >> TeX* commands? > >Yes, it's in a file named csname.txt. > >This file is not on CTAN, but somewhere on labrea.stanford.edu (don't >ask me where). You can fetch >ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/tex/plain/plain.tar.gz which has >this file, too. Joachim has provided me a copy of this file, and I have installed it on CTAN as tex-archive/macros/plain/doc/csname.txt (with a link to it from tex-archive/info/plain.csname.txt). From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 20 17:08:26 1995 Date: 20 Jan 1995 18:04:16 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: New version of UKTUG formatted FAQ on CTAN I've just updated the archive copy of the formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ that the UK TUG committee prepared as v4n6 of the UK TUG magazine Baskerville. I'm not sure that this is in any sense `perfect' layout, but it's something of an improvement on what I did immediately after publication, and a vast improvement on what was previously on CTAN In particular, there's a version formatted for letter paper, as well as the default one for A4 The directory's 00readme tries to discourage you from attempting to format the thing yourself, and gives something of a guide to files, etc. The UK TUG committee is most grateful to all those who commented on the FAQ while it was being prepared. Some day, when the pigs are roosting in the trees, perhaps, I'll be able to convert it to plain text for Bobby Bodenheimer's benefit. For the UK TUG committee Robin Fairbairns From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 22 16:55:34 1995 Date: 22 Jan 1995 21:53:14 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: kempson@snowyowl.com Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Niel Kempson writes: > I've uploaded a complete kit for my 8 bit version of BibTeX for DOS and > OS/2 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk > > The versions aren't really new, just complete so that others can get > hold of the source code and make changes. > > There are four files: > > bt301dos.zip - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users: > bt301os2.zip - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users: > bt301src.zip - complete source code kit > bt301.txt - this file > > The previous versions of these files were put in the directory > > tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/ms-dos/kempson/8bit-beta > > I'm happy that these go there, replacing the previous versions. > There's also an (identical) 00readme.txt file in each of the ZIP > files - it would very useful if you could extract it into the > destination directory. > > Niel Kempson [Once a member of the Aston TeX Archive Group :-)] > -- > Dr C Niel Kempson > Snowy Owl Systems Limited > E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.com (Internet) I've installed the stuff as Niel suggested... at the Cambridge archive It will propagate to the other CTAN sites from ftp.tex.ac.uk in due course. Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 23 08:14:01 1995 Date: 23 Jan 1995 12:55:25 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch Subject: BaKoMa AMS fonts Basil Malyshev has put up part 2 of his wonderful BaKoMa fonts, covering the AMS collection. I append his notes. I have installed thse on CTAN by adding to cm/ps-type1/bakmoa, rather than starting a new directory under fonts/ams. It isnt ideal, but i dont want to get mixed up with AMS offical distribution. I have removed the Paradissa fonts which are replaced by the newer BaKaMa ones. Many many thanks to Basil for his ongoing work sebastian This font software package is the second part of the BaKoMa Font Collection. The package includes the most usefull AMS fonts: Euler family and symbols. Totally, 52 fonts are included into BaKoMa/AMS font software package. The fonts are in a ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM+PFM) as well as in a TrueType font format (TTF). In comparison with previous package (BaKoMa/CM, issued 12-Nov-94) these fonts created by using more improved autohinting algorithms, that is most important for exotic shapes of the Euler fonts. So, most noticeable difference is that in this fonts hint replacement facility is used. About placement in the archive: One resonable directory is adding to '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma' directory. In other side, this package includes AMS fonts and can be placed '/tex-archive/fonts/ams/ps-type1'. Absolute fonts: In context of this font package files 'eu*' and 'ms*' in the '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/paradissa' directory is obsolete. I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples. Bye. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 23 08:37:20 1995 Date: 23 Jan 1995 14:26:02 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Matthias Eckermann Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: dvips16.zip (MSDOS) uploaded to ftp.dante.de Matthias Eckermann submitted dvips for 80x86 computers. The readme follows. The program has been installed on CTAN in systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc zu legen. ---------------- README.DOS -------------------------------------- This is "dvips16.zip", the DVIPS-Tool(s) compiled for 80x86-Computers. - To run dvips properly you also need (install in order): 1. (this dir) dvipslib.zip 2. (this dir) dps558b.zip 3. dvips16.zip - To recompile you need (install in order): 1. CTAN /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips558.tar.gz 2. (this dir) dps558s.zip 3. dvips16.zip [C-compiler] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - I used G.Sawades patches and hope that this dvips16.exe (compiled with TurboC++ 1.01) is compatible with his dvips32.exe. - afm2tfm.exe is included now. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive: DVIPS16.ZIP 0 18-01-95 01:00 dvips/ 0 18-01-95 01:00 dvips/pc/ 8777 18-01-95 01:00 dvips/pc/makefile.tcc 1719 18-01-95 01:00 dvips/pc/config.ps 0 18-01-95 01:00 emtex/ 0 18-01-95 01:00 emtex/ps/ 1719 18-01-95 01:00 emtex/ps/config.ps 51592 18-01-95 01:00 emtex/afm2tfm.exe 156502 18-01-95 01:00 emtex/dvips16.exe 1385 18-01-95 01:00 readme.dos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Eckermann MUNICH / GERMANY 18-01-1995 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 23 16:00:07 1995 Date: 23 Jan 1995 20:50:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Bebe Bondoc Cc: Robin Fairbairns , info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New version of UKTUG formatted FAQ on CTAN Bebe Bondoc wrote (in private mail): > On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > > I've just updated the archive copy of the formatted version of the TeX > > and Metafont FAQ that the UK TUG committee prepared as v4n6 of the UK > > TUG magazine Baskerville. > > May I point out that pointers to the location of this amazing piece of > work were not given; not even the name of the file. It is rather hard > to request a `quote site index' with `aa...ahmmm...yeah...' This is what comes of installing things after working hours, eager to get home. My apology to new readers: the complete set is in CTAN tex-archive/usergrps/uktug/faq (overwriting the previous version there). Robin From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 04:59:23 1995 Date: 24 Jan 1995 09:51:31 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Myself Subject: Re: CTAN submission: formlett.sty Zhuhan Jiang writes: > This is to inform you that formlett.sty version 2.2 has been uploaded > to ftp.tex.ac.uk at /incoming. > > formlett.sty is a style file for plain TeX and LaTeX(2.09 or 2e) > for mail merge or sending form letters. Current version just > renames several internal commands of a former version so that the > command names now wil not be in conflict with those of LaTeX. > > Suggested place: macros/generic I have replaced tex-archive/macros/generic/formlett.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will propagate to the other CTANs sometime soon. Robin (for the CTAN team) From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 06:20:45 1995 Date: 24 Jan 1995 11:00:34 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr Subject: Re: new version of the xlatex utility Installed as Eric requests sebastian > > Version 3.3c as of 3 october 1994 > Should be placed at the same place as before: > support/xlatex > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Eric Picheral Fax : 99 84 71 11 > CRI/CICB Campus de Beaulieu Tel : 99 84 71 23 > 35042 Rennes Cedex France E-mail : Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 24 13:09:04 1995 Date: 24 Jan 1995 17:38:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: jrtex12a.zip - Install info: new EMTEX, HPLJ, & PstScpt on PC In article <9501210615.kp29088@simtel.coast.net>, John Refling wrote: >I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), >(available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu >and its mirrors): > >ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/jrtex12a.zip > >SimTel/msdos/tex/ >jrtex12a.zip Install info: new EMTEX, HPLJ, & PstScpt on PC > >JRTEX v12a is a short (NOT) account of my experiences installing emtex >on a few different computers, [...] > >Text file. Copyrighted and uploaded by the author. With John's permission I have installed this stuff on CTAN as tex-archive/info/jrtex12a (his previous effort is the same directory as jrhelp11). Jrtex12a will propagate to the other CTAN sites in due course. Thanks for that, John -- it's the sort of thing it's nice to point bewildered beginners at... For the CTAN team, From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 24 13:07:28 1995 Date: 24 Jan 1995 18:44:01 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, Andrej Brodnik Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Andrej Brodnik (Andy) writes: > I submitted files: > > -r--r--r-- 1 abrodnik none 457 Jan 19 18:48 00Content > -r--r--r-- 1 abrodnik none 2139 Jan 19 18:41 READ.ME > -r--r--r-- 1 abrodnik none 2408 Jan 19 18:44 Uclgr.fd > -r--r--r-- 1 abrodnik none 1601 Jan 19 18:43 Uclgrss.fd > -r--r--r-- 1 abrodnik none 1681 Jan 19 18:45 Uclgrtt.fd > > in the directory GreekTeX-fd. These are font definition files for > GreekTeX under NFSS-2. For more, see file READ.ME. I recomend to put > them somewhere close to ``greektex'' package. However, greektex is > intended for LaTeX2.0, while these files are for LaTeX2e. Thank you for your submission. I installed the files in directory fonts/greek/greektex-fd For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 26 13:34:34 1995 Date: 26 Jan 1995 19:23:47 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Andreas Krebs , ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Andreas Krebs writes: > I have put some Files to /incoming/TeXtelmExtel/ > cmdialog.vbx > emedit.txt > emedit.vbx > grid.vbx > read_1st.txt > spin.vbx > texmex.exe > texmex.hlp > threed.vbx > vbrun300.dll > > The purpose of these files is a Shell for emTeX under MS Windows 3.1. > "texmex.exe" is the program, the .vbx and the .dll are runtime libraries > for it. "read_1st.txt" is a brief description of it. > > > It would be optimal if the files were placed under /systems/msdos/ > in a directory named TeXtelmExtel. Thank you for your submissions. The files have been installed in directory /systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/TeXtelmExtel For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 28 18:35:13 1995 Date: 28 Jan 1995 23:32:08 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Basil K. Malyshev Subject: fontload package updated Basil Malyshev has released a new version of his fontload tool. Details below. As usual, many thanks to Basil for this excellent work sebastian > ... upgrade of the 'Partial font downloading utility' which > is in directory '/tex-aarchive/fonts/utilities/fontload'. > > Differences with previous version which was issued 28-Nov-94. > > 1. It generates more compact code to download font into printer, > that reduces resulted file size and printer downloading time. > 2. Printer memory requirements is also slightly reduced. > 3. Ported to other platforms, such that it works now on > UNIX, MS-DOS, VMS. > 4. Improved control of the error situations. > 5. Added option '-p' that selects font set which is built in printer. > 6. Solved disadvantage with those fonts which have common > CharStrings (for example Univers fonts). > 7. Made the same font map for GhostScript and SubFont program. > 8. Tested with GhostScript 3.12, > that is able to apply partial font downloading to document > used Multiple Master fonts. > HOWEVER, gs 3.12 have a bugs, in this reason gs 2.6.1 using > is recomended. > 9. Man pages for 'fload' and 'subfont' are added. > > Basil K. Malyshev, 27-Jan-95, Geneve, Switzerland. > From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 31 00:59:30 1995 Date: 30 Jan 1995 10:03:02 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Martin Schroeder , ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New packages on ftp.dante.de Martin Schroeder writes: > I have uploaded the following packages into /incoming on ftp.dante.de: > ------ > - everyshi/everyshi.dtx > - everyshi/everyshi.ins > New version 2.00 of everyshi. > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/everyshi > >From everyshi.dtx: > %% @LaTeX-package-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "2.00", > %% date = "25 January 1995", > %% filename = "everyshi.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > %% D-28759 Bremen > %% telephone = "+49-421-628813", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "LaTeX2e, \shipout", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which defines a new hook > %% \EveryShipout". > ------ > - prelim2e/prelim2e.dtx > - prelim2e/prelim2e.ins > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e > >From prelim2e.dtx: > %% @LaTeX-package-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "1.00", > %% date = "26 January 1995", > %% filename = "prelim2e.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > %% D-28759 Bremen}, > %% telephone = "++49-421-628813", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions", > %% dependences = "everyshi, printtim", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of > %% preliminary versions of a document" > ------ > - printtim/printtim.dtx > - printtim/printtim.ins > Should be moved to macros/latex/contrib/supported/printtim > >From printtim.dtx: > %% @LaTeX-package-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "1.00", > %% date = "24 January 1995", > %% filename = "printtim.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > %% D-28759 Bremen > %% telephone = "+49-421-628813", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "LaTeX2e, \time", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which defines a command > %% \PrintTime which prints the current time". These packages have been installed in the places indicated. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jan 31 12:24:40 1995 Date: 31 Jan 1995 18:02:16 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Guido Sawade , CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc(2.0) Guido Sawade writes: > I have uploaded > dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, dvipslib.zip > and dvips16.zip > onto > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc/ > > These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for emTeX for > 386/486 computers (32Bit!), now Version 2.0. > > The files should replace the former in > /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/ (and > /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/ respectively) > > Please remove the little bug report 'dps558.bug'. > > > Main features: > > * -p/-l bug fixed (new sscanf function) > > * the magnification is now again submitted to maketexpk (bug fix) > > dvips supports now the first time > * expansion of environment variables in configuring > entries (variables and config.ps) > > * searching of files in subdirectories if requested > like emTeX do (only one level). > > * The 16Bit executables in dvips16.zip (compiled and > tested by Matthias Eckermann (who asked me for submission > in one task)) base on excactly the same patched dvips > sources. > The files have been installed in the places indicated. Many thanks. For the CTAN team, -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU Tue Jan 31 16:40:40 1995 Date: 31 Jan 1995 16:37:13 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Waud Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Acrobat? I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes! Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a ``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''. This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat. Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one set up the file in a propietary format? Now I realize that Acrobat is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary'' --- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses. In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader'' so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole package just to read one file!) Any suggestions/comments? Doug Waud -- ****************************************************************************** Douglas R. Waud (S7-137) (Bitnet: drw@umassmed) Department of Pharmacology (Internet: drw@ummed.edu) U. Massachusetts Med. Sch. (aka 146.189.16.2) 55 Lake Avenue North (FAX: 508-856 5080) Worcester, MA, 01655-0216 (Voice: 508 856 3339) ****************************************************************************** From heill@phys.unit.no Tue Jan 31 18:15:43 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 00:17:19 +0100 From: Lars Ketil Heill Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: drw@ummed.edu Subject: Re: Acrobat? Doug Waud wrote: > >I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes! > >Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a >``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''. > >This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto >CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf >extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I >rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat. > >Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX >people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one >set up the file in a propietary format? Now I realize that Acrobat Good question. >is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing >stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary'' >--- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses. > >In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free >Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader'' >so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available >anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole >package just to read one file!) > >Any suggestions/comments? Yep, ftp to ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Applications/Acrobat/XXX where XXX is UNIX, Windows, DOS or Macintosh. There you'll find Acroread, the free Acrobat reader. You can download sample .pdf files if you want (huge things). Best regards, Lars Ketil Lars Ketil Heill heill@phys.unit.no (or heill@fm.unit.no) Dept of physics, The Norwegian Inst of Tech, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway Tel +47 73 59 36 36, Fax +47 73 59 36 95 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 31 19:51:45 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 00:47:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: Acrobat? (I'm moving this discussion info-tex, and hence to comp.text.tex, since the point made is more general than simply the one announcement.) drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Doug Waud) writes (originally on ctan-ann@shsu.edu): > I suspect that I may be getting in over my head here, but here goes! I was in the same state myself not too long ago, but I know at least something now, so I'll try and justify what I did. > Robin Fairbairns posted a note announcing the availability of a > ``formatted version of the TeX and Metafont FAQ''. > > This document struck me as a useful thing to have so I hopped onto > CTAN and downloaded a copy. I ended up with a file with a .pdf > extension. The readme said this was associated with ``Acrobat''. I > rooted around in catalogs and finally discovered Acrobat. .pdf is an Adobe extension of PostScript; the acronym means "portable document format". It's as portable (and as non-portable) as Adobe's previous attempt -- PostScript. > Now my question is this. Why, when .dvi is the lingua franca for TeX > people, or, perhaps, .ps if one wants to include figures, does one > set up the file in a propietary format? Exactly the same things could have been (and were) said about PostScript when it first appeared on the scene. > Now I realize that Acrobat > is touted as being the cat's meow when it comes to distributing > stuff to read, but the price paid is buried in that ``proprietary'' > --- the file is unreadable for the great unwashed masses. I don't particularly care what Acrobat's touted as doing. I agreed to include this file in the directory I prepared because of what I _know_ it does do. (Note that I didn't prepare the .pdf file myself; I work in UK academia, which means no funds for tangential work, such as my work in and for TeX. The .pdf was prepared from the PostScript I wrote for v4n6 of Baskerville, the UK TUG magazine, by Sebastian Rahtz of Elsevier. Elsevier are serious about Acrobat, since they seem to believe it shows promise for future electronic publication mechanisms. Since it results in something that can be of use to the TeX community, I'm happy to make use of their resources (such as applications you pay Adobe good money for) to prepare this file.) > In the ads for Acrobat, it says the product includes ``free > Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX versions of the Acrobat reader'' > so anyone can view the file(s) you send. Is that reader available > anywhere on the Internet? (I am rather disinclined to buy the whole > package just to read one file!) The reader is available on CTAN (see tex-archive/fonts/postscript/ adobe/Applications/Acrobat, which has the versions of the reader in separate sub-directories) as well as from ftp.adobe.com I have succeeded in loading the DOS version to my own machine, but have failed (despite a lot of support from our systems people here) to mount the Unix version, which requires a specified version of SunOS (which we have) running either Motif or Openwindows (which we don't). However, since everyone's best estimate is that the majority of TeX users are PC-based, I'm not too concerned. (Who really wants Unix, anyway? It's just another of these proprietary systems... ;-) What the .pdf of that document offers, which you can't get any other way, is hypertext scanning mechanisms. You _can_ read an html version of the file, at URL http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes though it's at a rather poorly-connected site, since it's still under development. However, my preparation of the directory was based on the hypothesis that, of people who aren't members of UK TUG, and therefore didn't get that issue of Baskerville, the majority would print one of the PostScript files. It _is_ possible to print it from one of the .dvi files, though it involves some work in installing at least one non-standard font. Come to that, you can even go the whole hog and process the .tex files from the ground up (and you're welcome to it ;-) I hope this little contribution has set at least some minds at (greater) ease. If there are any further problems, please let me know. Robin (Dark fibre to every home) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html PS -- I was about to post this message when I thought to check the state of the UK TUG directory on SHSU ... at which point things become somewhat clearer to me than they were. My elaborate defence of myself was conducted against a criticism of CTAN's internal mirroring mechanisms. I have now therefore hand-mirrored the faq directory to SHSU (it's just as well I have an account there). Doug will presumably find things somewhat more to his liking, now... From MASCHLER@vms.huji.ac.il Tue Jan 31 22:20:27 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 05:14 +0200 From: MASCHLER@vms.huji.ac.il Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Problems retrieving the new version of dvips. I tried to retrieve DVIPSLIB.ZIP both from ftp.dante.de and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de I tried to do it several times and each time connection was lost exactly after 160000 bytes being retrieved. It seems to me that the zip file contains a control command that throws you out of the node. Cna that be fixed? Anybody else had this problem? Michael Maschler From sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE Wed Feb 1 03:50:30 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 09:38:17 +0100 From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc(2.0) On Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:02:16 +0100, Rainer Schoepf wrote: >The files have been installed in the places indicated. Many thanks. Sorry. I forgot to mention, that the file 'readme.dos' of .../dvips558.pc should become replaced by the one which is in 'dvips16.zip'. --- Gruss / Regards Guido Sawade TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN 0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG From sawa0432@mailszrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE Wed Feb 1 03:48:49 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 09:39:19 +0100 From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Problems retrieving the new version of dvips. On Wed, 1 Feb 95 5:14 +0200, MASCHLER wrote: > >I tried to retrieve DVIPSLIB.ZIP both from ftp.dante.de and ftp.uni-stuttgart.de >I tried to do it several times and each time connection was lost exactly after >160000 bytes being retrieved. > >It seems to me that the zip file contains a control command that throws you out >of the node. For me all was going well (09:30 CET). --- Gruss / Regards Guido Sawade TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN 0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG From rogerj@lps.cornell.edu Wed Feb 1 13:23:38 1995 Date: 01 Feb 1995 13:18:41 -0500 From: Roger Jagoda Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts Folks, Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS, SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor. Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"? I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT help in our environment! Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance. Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi or other previewers display them? Thanks a bunch in advance! --Roger Jagoda Cornell University rogerj@lps.cornell.edu From roger@isy.liu.se Thu Feb 2 02:51:42 1995 Date: 02 Feb 1995 07:48:48 +0100 From: Roger Germundsson Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts > > Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully > insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS, > SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor. I ``installed'' it on Sun SPARCS, Sun OS 4.1.x. Works like a sharm ... there was not really anything to ``install'' was there. > > Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"? > I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT > help in our environment! I looked it up ... it seems like a very simple version of what you get with GnuEmacs/AucTeX. > > Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose > someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance. > Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need > here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi > or other previewers display them? Sure, xdvi and xdvik can display PS fonts. See the LaTeX Comapanion for details on how to specify fonts (in particula PS ones). > > > Thanks a bunch in advance! You are welcome, BUT you should direct these questions to the news group: comp.text.tex --Roger Roger Germundsson, Automatic Control, Linkoping University, Sweden From sm@peachum.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Thu Feb 2 03:39:40 1995 Date: 02 Feb 1995 09:35:07 +0100 From: Stefan Mintert Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Cc: info-tex@shsu.edu, sm@peachum.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Subject: Re: Acrobat, XTeXShell, PS Fonts Hi Rodger! --------- > > Folks, > > > Reading these threads lately, has ANYONE successfully > insatlled the UNIX Acrobat reader? I have failed on DEC-MIPS, > SunOS-SPARC and SGI-MIPS so far...three out of three is pretty poor. If you're talking about Acroread from Adobe the answer is "yes". I "installed" it on a Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.3) without any problems. I just unpacked the archive and started the program. > > Secondly, does anoyone know anything about a package called "XTexShell"? > I've seen it in passing in related groups. Sounds like it could be a GREAT > help in our environment! Yes, I tested XTeXShell. It's easy to install (if you already have tcl, tk, tclX), easy to use, includes a hypertext help system (with the most LaTeX commands). BUT I just saw it running on Linux. It does not run on SunOS (I asked the author, it wasn't my failure; probably a problem with tclX on some systems). If you're looking for a texshell on SunOS take a look at XTEM (TeXmenu for X). It runs on the most systems and offers more features than "XTeXShell". It need tcl, tk, tclX too and the installation is a bit more difficult. > > Lastly, probably an FAQ (although I couldn't solve it), suppose > someone wants to use fonts OTHER than CMR...like Helvetica for instance. > Yes, his/her documents become very less portable, but that's the need > here. Is there a way to specify PS fonts instead of CMR AND have xdvi > or other previewers display them? Of course any PS-previewer can display PS-fonts. I don't think that PS-files are less portable. Within the TeX community DVI is surely a better choice, but outside... xdvi can't display PS-fonts. The latest version of xdvi only displays PS-graphics (as far as I know). For this it calls Ghostscript. For using PS-fonts: use the PSNFSS, a DVI2PS converter (i.e. dvips by Tomas Rokicki) and view it with any PS-viewer (i.e. ghostview). > > > Thanks a bunch in advance! > > --Roger Jagoda > Cornell University > rogerj@lps.cornell.edu > > > --------- Stefan. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Stefan Mintert mintert@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Computer Science Department - IRB software@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de University of Dortmund PGP Key fingerprint = D-44221 Dortmund 5A 6E B6 DF 6B 8E 35 0E Germany 1F 6A 6B 28 AA A0 B1 57 Tel.: 4700 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "let the music keep our spirits high..." (Jackson Browne) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb 3 04:00:01 1995 Date: 03 Feb 1995 09:52:16 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, CTAN@shsu.edu Cc: os2@dante.de, thomas@gandalf.rhein.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission thomas@gandalf.rhein.de writes: > i have uploaded a file to ftp.dante.de:/incoming > > (a) filename: makeindex-os2.zip > > (b) purpose: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > README Makeindex for OS/2 02.02.1995 > > This is omly a makeindex-binary for os/2. It is based on the sources > to be found on CTAN-servers in: > tex-archive/indexing/makeindex. > > On the same place, you will find all documentation you need. > This makeindex-version is: portable version 2.12 [26-May-1993] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > (c) desired location: tex-archive/systems/os2/binaries The file has been installed in the desired location. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung der Universitaet Mainz Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 D-55099 Mainz Germany From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Feb 14 10:11:47 1995 Date: 14 Feb 1995 14:56:22 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: mutex@stolaf.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Musixtex preprocessor (for musictex) I have installed Musixtex on ftp.tex.ac.uk. It will propagate to the other CTAN sites as and when they can get network bandwidth to get it from us. Daniel Taupin announced the package a little while ago: MusiXTeX is a new - completely new - version of music typesetting using TeX. It is due to Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler, with a big part of the TeX macros borrowed from Daniel Taupin's MusiCTeX. The main difference is that it is a three pass system: 1. Texing roughly 2. Computing the slurs accurate sizes (by a C program, musixflx) 3. Re-Texing beautifully. It is a free copy software (their posting in CTANs is wished), but you are not allowed to spread modified versions of it without the consents of the three authors (of course changing font resolution is not a "modification"). Robin Fairbairns From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 12:59:52 1995 Date: 15 Feb 1995 17:45:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Power failure at ftp.tex.ac.uk There was a power failure of 2 or so hours at ftp.tex.ac.uk this afternoon. As far as I am able to determine, there have been no files lost (this time), but of course, service was unavailable when the systems were down. Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced ... it's for times like these we have a replicated archive ;-) Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team, but NOT for Eastern Electricity, whose only communication with us appears to have been "yes, we're aware there's a problem") From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 16 13:42:26 1995 Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:44:39 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt" I've corrected the notice I sent to comp.text.tex in a later post about mailing lists in general. You should have sent your message SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt" to listserv@shsu.edu I'm sorry my original posting was unclear (you're not the first to have been confused by it). R Robin (Campaign for Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Martin.Wiesenfeldt@physik.th-darmstadt.de Fri Feb 17 10:42:36 1995 Date: 17 Feb 1995 16:30:12 +0100 From: Martin Wiesenfeldt Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: SUBSCRIBE CTAN-Ann "Martin Wiesenfeldt" Ja, isch bin de Maatin, ne... Aber danke fuer den Hinweis, ich hab's schon mehrfach gehoert 8-)) und es inzwischen auch brav befolgt. Da hab' ich wohl was durcheinandergebracht. Tschuess Martin From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb 18 06:56:16 1995 Date: 18 Feb 1995 11:49:06 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: placeins (plain tex floats) > From: Donald Arseneau > Subject: New file placeins.tex > > Hi. I just uploaded placeins.tex to the incoming directory. > It keeps plain TeX floating insertions in their proper place. > I think it should go into /tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib. > installed as requested Sebastian Rahtz From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Feb 18 06:56:20 1995 Date: 18 Feb 1995 11:51:52 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca Subject: MakeTeXPK notes I have installed this in systems/unix/safemtpk. I am not sure whether to make links or not to other systems or places. I am also not convinced the name or place is right! any ideas welcomed sebastian rahtz > > > This is an archive which contains an article, with an accompanying > program, which describes in detail how to set up MakeTeXPK script > without opening assorted directories "write to the world". > > There is also a set of sample scripts which illustrate modifications > which are needed with this approach. They are taken directly from > teTeX distribution for Linux, but similar changes, modulo site > details, are needed on other systems as well. > > I would suggest putting all of this with other auxilary material > for Unix systems with a link to teTeX directories. I am not so > sure if a name is descriptive enough. If you can come up with > something better, go ahead and change it. Maybe safeMakeTeXPK, > like a name of LaTeX file inside? But please tell me what you > decided after all. > > Thanks, > Michal > michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Mon Feb 20 08:33:30 1995 Date: 20 Feb 1995 14:05:25 +0100 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: FeynMF 0.8: Feynman diagrams for LaTeX and Metafont/MetaPost This is to announce a new version of FeynMF, which can be found (soon) in {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}: ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf soon. This is a mirror of crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf FeynMF 0.8 is a bug fix release, with some new features. The most important changes are: LaTeX 2.09 compatibility (some asked for it), plugged Metafont string memory hole, new and streamlined line styles. Enjoy, -Thorsten /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 21 05:47:15 1995 Date: 21 Feb 1995 11:42:03 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Michael Mehlich Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission, fp-package Michael Mehlich writes: > Denis Girou has sent me today a new macro for the fp-package > enabling the generation of random numbers. > I've inserted it in the package and supported it at the appropriate > places of the fp-package. I installed your update at ftp.daqnte.de from where it will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 22 12:59:41 1995 Date: 22 Feb 1995 17:54:38 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Nick Efford: artex, support for portable LaTeX 2e documents I have installed artex as requested on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will propagate to the other CTANs as and when the deities that control the network allow. Thanks, Nick, for the submission. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) ------- Forwarded Message From: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk (Nick Efford) Reply-To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Message-ID: <9502221726.ZM12954@dcre> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:26:27 +0000 To: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: CTAN submission The file artex.tar.gz has been uploaded to /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk. This file contains beta release 1.00 of ArTeX, a tool for generating portable LaTeX 2e documents. The README file is reproduced below. I suggest that this be installed in the directory /tex-archive/support/artex Nick Efford - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ArTeX version 1.00b - ------------------- ArTeX is a Perl script which simplifies the exchange of LaTeX documents between collaborating authors or between author and publisher. ArTeX analyzes a LaTeX 2e document to determine whether it loads any non-standard files. If non-standard files are identified, ArTeX creates filecontents or filecontents* environments for them and adds these environments to the input document. The new document can be processed successfully on any system with a standard installation of LaTeX 2e. ArTeX has been tested in the following environments: (1) Irix 5.2, Perl 4.036 and 5.000 (2) MS-DOS 6.2, Perl 4.036 (bigperl), emTeX The ArTeX distribution contains the following files: README.artex - this file artex - Perl script artexman.html - HTML version of manual artexman.tex - LaTeX 2e version of manual Note: this is a beta release. Bug reports, comments and suggestions for impovements should be directed to: Nick Efford nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk - -- Nick Efford | email: nde@dcre.leeds.ac.uk School of Computer Studies | voice: +44 113 233 6809 (direct line) Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK | http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/comir/people/nick.html ------- End of Forwarded Message From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 22 13:16:19 1995 Date: 22 Feb 1995 18:07:44 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu Cc: dsimons@logicon.com, veittes@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE, maray@fsz.bme.hu, Olivier.CLARY@meteo.fr, HOUSER@bms.com, ehlerabk@rubc.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, Peter.Vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be, mig@ncc.up.pt, hjbortol@Medusa.mat.puc-rio.br, mst@mhcnet.att.com, dag.lohse@Mathematik.TU-Chemnitz.DE, crath@bnr.ca Subject: The pmtex musictex pre-processor DON SIMONS (dsimons@logicon.com) has submitted to CTAN the pmtex program that he talked about some time ago in the mutex mailing list. I installed it as directory support/pmtex on SHSU, and it's propagated here at least. The program is available as two fortran files and various support stuff (I have unzipped Don's original file; those who want a .zip file of the entire directory should say ftp> cd tex-archive/support ftp> get pmtex.zip the archive will zip it up for you). pmtex.txt says: PMTeX A Preprocessor for MusicTeX by Don Simons (dsimons@logicon.com) INTRODUCTION PMTeX will generate MusicTeX code for multi-staff scores with up to five staves (or voices) per system. Once it makes a .tex file for you, you will probably want or need to change a few things manually. This is because (a) PMTeX only has a small subset of the capabilities of MusicTeX, and (b) PMTeX is not perfect. But it can save a LOT of time with the grunge work involved in setting up notes...enotes groupings, defining beams, justifying lines, and spreading the entire piece evenly over a specified number of systems. Thanks, Don, for the contribution Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 05:24:23 1995 Date: 23 Feb 1995 10:19:00 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au Subject: DTL (DVI Text Language) uploaded Geoff Tobin has provided us with a copy of the DVI text language that he's talked about for some time. The 00Description says: DTL (DVI Text Language) files are equivalent to TeX's DVI files, but are humanly readable, instead of binary. Two programs are provided to translate between DVI and DTL: dv2dt, dt2dv. The programs are in C and there's a Makefile I've installed the stuff at SHSU in tex-archive/dviware/dtl It will propagate to the other CTANs in due course Robin (For the CTAN team) Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 08:04:41 1995 Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:57:19 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: kevin@rodin.wustl.edu Subject: Prettyref installed I have installed Kevin Ruland's prettyref package at SHSU. It will propagate to the other CTANs in due course (provided that the trade winds are in the right quarter). The package redefines LaTeX's referencing mechanism so that it can carry the _type_ (e.g., equation, table, figure) of the reference around. Thank you, Kevin, for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 08:20:27 1995 Date: 23 Feb 1995 13:13:06 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Wilfried.Pfister@imag.fr Subject: French thesis class lifia-th I have installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk Wilfried Pfister's lifia-th package His description says: lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis. It may be customized for any laboratory. It contains french sectioning, date, and names. It allow user to have lists of figures, tables and examples. It automatically makes a title page, headings, etc. The package contains a Makefile (good stuff, Wilfried) documented source and an example file. All the documentation and the example are in French (of course). Thank you, Wilfried, for the submission Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:33:47 1995 Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:24:43 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shSU.edu Cc: mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU Subject: Re: PSfrag 2.0beta for LaTeX2e uploaded installed, with gratitude, as Michael requests. should the 209 version be deleted? sebastian rahtz > > I've uploaded PSfrag 2.0beta, a beta version of PSfrag for LaTeX2e, to > the incoming directory of ftp.shsu.edu: > > ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/incoming/psfrag.tar.gz > > PSfrag is a system by which LaTeX text can be overlayed upon EPS > figures. A version for LaTeX209 has been on CTAN for quite awhile; > I recommend that this version be placed in the > > macros/latex/contrib/supported > > subdirectory. > > Extensive documentation can be found in psfrag.dtx. > > From: "Michael C. Grant" From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:35:23 1995 Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:28:38 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: makefonts thanks, Volker. this has been installed in fonts/utilities/makefonts as suggested sebastian rahtz > I have put makefonts.tar.gz into CTAN(shsu):/incoming. > > This is a set of shell scripts which run metafont to generate the basic > TeX/LaTeX fonts. There are scripts for generating AMS and other fonts > as well. There was demand for this on the TeX-k list. > I suggest to put it into CTAN:fonts/utilities/makefonts (please unpack > at your end). > > Please announce on CTAN-announce where/when you have put it. From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 27 15:48:37 1995 Date: 27 Feb 1995 20:33:25 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: jsdevitt@maplesoft.com Subject: Re: Updates to Maple files installed as requested, with thanks sebastian rahtz > > I have just uploaded three files > to incoming/maple. They are: > > incoming/maple/MTNarticle.tex > incoming/maple/README > incoming/maple/mtn.cls > > These updates "replace" the corresponding files > found in > > tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/maple > > They are backwards compatible in that all the macros > supported before still work in the same fashion. > > > Stan Devitt > Waterloo Maple. From mcgrant@rascals.Stanford.EDU Mon Feb 27 17:00:26 1995 Date: 27 Feb 1995 13:52:10 -0800 From: Michael C. Grant Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Sebastian Rahtz Cc: CTAN-ann@shSU.edu Subject: Re: PSfrag 2.0beta for LaTeX2e uploaded Sebastian Rahtz writes: installed, with gratitude, as Michael requests. should the 209 version be deleted? I don't know what your policy is about latex209 stuff, but I'd leave it in macros/latex209/contrib/supported, perhaps with an addendum saying to refer questions to me. I can support it somewhat; after all, the ps2frag script and ps2frag.ps are compatible with the 209 version. Thanks for installing it; I'll announce it to comp.text.tex then! Miek From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 1 10:06:03 1995 Date: 01 Mar 1995 15:01:47 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Allin Cottrell Subject: winw2ltx update Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a ww2 and a ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last release. This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent seen it Sebastian Rahtz for CTAN From noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de Wed Mar 1 12:54:25 1995 Date: 01 Mar 1995 18:37:31 +0100 (NFT) From: Cornelius C. Noack Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: winw2ltx update ============================================================================== _|_ / | \ \_|_/ Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: _|_ ___ Inst. f. Theoret. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 | | | \ Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2965 |___| |___/ Kufsteiner Strasse Fax : -4869 | | | \ D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 | | |___/ PhyHB ============================================================================== X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 454 Sebastian writes: > > Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are > now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a ww2 and a > ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last > release. > > This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent > seen it > > Sebastian Rahtz > for CTAN > What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I couldn't find it. ccn From cottrell@wfu.edu Wed Mar 1 15:44:30 1995 Date: 01 Mar 1995 15:33:37 -0500 From: Allin Cottrell Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: winw2ltx update >============================================================================== > _|_ > / | \ > \_|_/ Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: > _|_ ___ Inst. f. Theoret. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 > | | | \ Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2965 > |___| |___/ Kufsteiner Strasse Fax : -4869 > | | | \ D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > | | |___/ > PhyHB >============================================================================== >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Length: 454 > >Sebastian writes: >> >> Allin Cottrell has asked for changes to support/winw2ltx. There are >> now separate german and english subdirectories, each with a ww2 and a >> ww6 directory. the original english is unchanged since the last >> release. >> >> This is for converting Word for Windows to LaTeX, in case you havent >> seen it >> >> Sebastian Rahtz >> for CTAN >> >What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I >couldn't find it. ccn > It's in tex-archive/support/winw2ltx. ======================= Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC, USA (910) 759-5762 ======================= From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 2 04:40:33 1995 Date: 02 Mar 1995 09:27:58 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Cornelius C. Noack Subject: Re: winw2ltx update Cornelius writes: > What exactly is the subdirectory (in tex-archive/) for these files ? I > couldn't find it. ccn If you were using quote site index on the day of installation, you wouldn't find it: the index files are created in overnight runs. When a ctan maintainer gives an address like Seb did (support/winw2ltx), you should always assume that's relative to the tex-archive root unless otherwise stated. That directory is essentially the same on all 3 CTANs. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 7 09:09:25 1995 Date: 07 Mar 1995 14:58:00 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Axel Sommerfeldt Subject: Re: CTAN submission (fwd) Axel Sommerfeldt writes: > I've just put the following files on ftp.dante.de//imcoming/caption.new: > (NOTE: There is a `.new' at the end of the path!) > > Makefile (unix makefile to build caption.sty and caption.dvi) > caption.ins (docstrip installation file) > caption.dtx (source + english documentation in the docstrip format) > Additionaly I put the following files on ftp.dante.de//imcoming/umlaute.new: > (NOTE: There is a `.new' at the end of the path, too!) > Makefile (unix makefile to build umlaute.sty and umlaute.dvi) > umlaute.ins (docstrip installation file) > umlaute.dtx (source + english documentation in the docstrip format) > cs_patch.uue (Patch program for CS-TeX (on Atari computers)) > anleitung.tex (german documentation, the english one is in umlaute.dtx as usual) > > It's the version 2.0a of the german `umlaute' package for LaTeX2e, it replaces > the version 1.2 in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/umlaute/. Thanks, all installed. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 7 09:36:56 1995 Date: 07 Mar 1995 15:29:11 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Corey Minyard Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Corey Minyard writes: > I have place tw-0.1.tgz on ftp.dante.de in the /incoming directory. > This is a new literate programming tool I have written, it is simple > like noweb but it is written completely in C and doesn't use pipes. I > would recommend putting this in /tex-archive/web/tw/tw-0.1.tgz. Thanks, I unpacked the file into web/tango-weevil -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 7 09:40:16 1995 Date: 07 Mar 1995 15:33:27 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: concmath package/fonts uploaded on ftp.dante.de vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes: > I've just uploaded a couple of files on ftp.dante.de and put them into > the directory incoming/concmath. There you will find the following files: > > ./README - package description > ./HISTORY - background information > ./concmath.sty - LaTeX package for Concrete math fonts > ./concmath.tar.gz - archive containing .mf and .tfm files > > Unpacking the .tar.gz file will produce the following additional files: > > ./fonts/src/xccmi{5,6,7,8,9,10}.mf - Concrete version of cmmi > ./fonts/src/xccsy{5,6,7,8,9,10}.mf - Concrete version of cmsy > ./fonts/src/xccex10.mf - Concrete version of cmex > ./fonts/src/xccam10.mf - Concrete version of msam > ./fonts/src/xccbm10.mf - Concrete version of msbm > ./fonts/tfm/xccmi{5,6,7,8,9,10}.tfm > ./fonts/tfm/xccsy{5,6,7,8,9,10}.tfm > ./fonts/tfm/xccex10.tfm > ./fonts/tfm/xccam10.tfm > ./fonts/tfm/xccbm10.tfm > > These files provide a Concrete version of the standard CM math fonts > and the AMS symbol fonts. concmath.sty is a LaTeX package containing > the necessary font declarations to make use of these fonts. > > I suggest installing the font files in CTAN:fonts/concmath at the > same level as CTAN:fonts/concrete and putting the other files (README, > HISTORY, concmath.sty) into CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath. > It would be useful to add a symbolic link ./fonts pointing to the > actual location of the font files, so that they will automatically > be included as a subdirectory when generating an archive on the fly. > For some users it might also be useful to include the .tar.gz file > containing only the font files as uploaded for easier installation > at their site. > > Further information about this package can be found in the files > README and HISTORY, the latter describing the recipe how I created > the font files. METAFONT gurus are invited to improve on this if > anyone wants to do some fine tuning. > > > Share and enjoy, > > Ulrik Vieth (not really an experienced METAFONTologist) Thanks a lot, the files have been installed as suggested. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 7 13:26:57 1995 Date: 07 Mar 1995 18:20:18 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: ftp.tex.ac.uk downtime We had a few minutes' downtime at 1805 GMT today 1995/03/07, in order that we could reconfigure the discs. (CTAN has grown by approx 0.5Gbyte since I started being involved...) The reconfiguration enables us to set up a permanent solution, and there will need to be a little down time to switch over to the permanent solution. Permanence would appear to be approx. 8 months... Robin Fairbairns for CTAN-UK management From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 8 05:27:05 1995 Date: 08 Mar 1995 10:10:29 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: alan@sx.ac.uk Subject: dancers font in CTAN CTAN:fonts/dancers contains Alan Stanier's Metafont version of the Dancing Men from the Sherlock Homes story. thanks, Alan sebastian From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 8 06:51:31 1995 Date: 08 Mar 1995 10:18:50 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: beebe@science.utah.edu Subject: psposter > > In December and January, I developed a small but rather useful utility > named psposter, for `PostScript poster'. > > This program is capable of producing simple one-page posters with > automatic (or manual, if requested) font scaling, for any resident or > downloadable PostScript font. > > It can also produce tables of fonts, and supplemental material > distributed with psposter allows you to produce a sorted table of all > PostScript fonts resident in any PostScript output device. > > The software has been stable now for about two months, so it is time > to release it to a wider audience, and you are invited to help > yourselves from ftp.math.utah.edu:/pub/misc: installed in fonts/utilities/psposter on CTAN sites many thanks to Nelson sebastian rahtz From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Mar 9 09:42:59 1995 Date: 09 Mar 1995 14:38:37 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Frank Jensen Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Frank Jensen writes: > I have uploaded new versions of the `beton' and `euler' packages to > ftp.dante.de (as `beton.tar.gz' and `euler.tar.gz'). > > As described in The LaTeX Companion, the `beton' package replaces the > text fonts of a LaTeX document with the Concrete fonts (by D. Knuth), > and the `euler' package replaces the math fonts of a LaTeX document > with the AMS Euler fonts. > > The packages should replace the old versions stored in the > latex/contrib/supported directory. > > --- > Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.auc.dk > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Aalborg University > DENMARK Installed in the places indicated. -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Mar 9 12:29:59 1995 Date: 09 Mar 1995 16:50:29 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: Re: Upload of new revision of DECUS TeX for Open VMS Christian Spieler, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt writes: > I have just uploaded the Mar95 revision of DECUS TeX for OpenVMS to > the German CTAN cite FTP.DANTE.DE. > The upload is packed in a single UNIX Zip archive and is found in > "/incoming/decustex_mar95.zip" > The contents of the release is > ========= begin contents ===================== > 000read.me > 00changes > 00readme.ctan > 00readme.saveset > 00todo > 0ltxinst.txt > 0texinstall.txt > Alpha/ > Alpha/bibtex_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/dvips558_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/indexing_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/misc_axp.zip > Alpha/mfware_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/mf_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/texware_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/tex_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/vfware_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/web_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/xdvi_axp_exe.zip > Alpha/texmf_utils_axp_obj.zip > Alpha/tex_mf_bib_axp_obj.zip > Alpha/web_axp_obj.zip > Alpha/dvips558_axp_obj.zip > Alpha/xdvi18_axp_obj.zip > Alpha/axp_vms15_pasrtlshr.zip > VAX/ > VAX/bibtex_vax_exe.zip > VAX/dvips558_vax_exe.zip > VAX/indexing_vax_exe.zip > VAX/mfware_vax_exe.zip > VAX/mf_vax_exe.zip > VAX/texware_vax_exe.zip > VAX/tex_vax_exe.zip > VAX/vfware_vax_exe.zip > VAX/web_vax_exe.zip > VAX/xdvi_vax_exe.zip > VAX/texmf_utils_vax_obj.zip > VAX/tex_mf_bib_vax_obj.zip > VAX/web_vax_obj.zip > VAX/dvips558_vax_obj.zip > VAX/xdvi18_vax_obj.zip > dvips558_support.zip > dvips_fontsupport.zip > misc_common.zip > src/ > src/bibtex.zip > src/texindex.zip > src/tex31415.zip > src/mf271.zip > src/texware.zip > src/mfware.zip > src/vfware.zip > src/web.zip > src/dvips558_vmssrc.zip > src/vms558.zip > src/xdvi-18-vmspatch.zip > src/xdvi-18-vmssource.zip > texmf_general.zip > ========= end contents ===================== > > The intended destination is > "tex-archive/systems/vms/" > > Before you install the new revision, please remove the old contents of > tex-archive/systems/vms/Alpha/ > /VAX/ > /src/ > and the file > dvips555_support.zip > > Some highlights of the new release: > * Now, all programs of the Knuth core distribution are supported: > - added patgen > - added mft > - added pktogf, gftopxl, pktopx, pxtopk, vftovp, vptovf > > * Bugfixes in > - tangle (important, use new release to recompile other TeX/MF sources) > - vfware programs > - TeX and MF command line interface > > * Updated DVIPS to version 5.58 > > * Now, MF is BigMF (262142 word main memory) > > * All `core programs' (Web, TeX, MF, BibTeX, TeX/MF/VFware) support > wildcards in input file name specifications. This allows: > ===>> automatic single/multilevel subdirectory searching !!! > > * The "large" programs (TeX, MF, BibTeX) that use the VMS CLI system utility > for command line parsing have now a default command table included > in the executable. This allows installing these programs as > `foreign commands'. > > * The command line interface of the utility programs has been enhanced: > - They use more useful defaults when (parts of the) arguments are missing. > - The command line supports multiple arguments for those programs > where this makes sence, to allow specification of input and output > files on the command line. > > For more information, please see the 0* files. > > Best regards > > Christian Spieler The latest versions of the files have been installed on ftp.dante.de, from where they will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE Mon Mar 13 21:38:04 1995 Date: 13 Mar 1995 09:26:59 +0100 From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE Subject: To: Guido Sawade , CTAN@SHSU.edu, Dear Rainer Schoepf. I have uploaded dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, and dvips16.zip (by Matthias Eckermann) onto ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/ These are updated versions of dvips5.58 for DOS/OS2/Windows, now Version 2.10 (March 10 1995). The files should replace as usual the former versions in /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/ (and /pub/tex/systems/os2/drivers/dvips558.pc/ respectively) What's new (or why should one update): Only two little changes are gone into this version: - The default setting for the P (PK Fonts path/name) value of config.ps (if this is not set) is now correct. - dvips32.exe have had sometimes problems with option -pv= (set by emTeX's dvidrv.exe) which works now properly. The changes affect the files dps558b.zip: emtex/doc/dvips.doc emtex/dvips32.exe dps558s.zip: dvips/dvips.c dvips/pc/makefile.saw dvips16.zip: * --- Gruss / Regards Guido Sawade TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN 0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 14 05:37:23 1995 Date: 14 Mar 1995 10:30:36 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca Subject: kuvio and arrsy packages ..... > The latter directory contains TeX macros (kuvio.tex) and documentation > (tdwk-1.5.ps) for typesetting mathematical diagrams using TeX and dvips. > The former directory contains a metafont containing arrowheads that can > (optionally) be used with kuvio.tex. > > I doubt that my font will interest anyone not using kuvio.tex, so I suggest > that the whole svensson directory be placed in macros/generic/diagrams (rather > than placing the font somewhere else). > I have placed Anders Svensson's packages in macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio and the fonts in macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio/arrsy slightly different fromw hat was sugegsted. hope thats OK sebastian rahtz From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 14 06:56:07 1995 Date: 14 Mar 1995 12:51:38 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, sawade@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE Subject: Re: To: Guido Sawade , CTAN@SHSU.edu, Guido Sawade writes: > I have uploaded > dps558b.zip, dps558s.zip, > and dvips16.zip (by Matthias Eckermann) > onto > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dvips558pc.new/ Thanks, I installed the files. Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 14 07:00:02 1995 Date: 14 Mar 1995 12:54:15 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Rainer Doerntge Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Rainer Doerntge writes: > I uploaded the file magic.tar.gz to /incoming at > ftp.dante.de. It contains two METAFONT-files magic.mf > and magic12.mf. These files are intended to be used > to create a font for the symbols on the Deckmaster(TM) > trading-card-game Magic(TM) from Wizards of the Coast, > Inc. The font contains 18 symbols which are described > in the header of magic.mf. > I recommend placing the .mf files into /fonts/magic. Installed as proposed -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 14 11:10:34 1995 Date: 14 Mar 1995 15:38:48 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: E.H.M.Frambach@eco.rug.nl, cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Subject: Kees van der Laan's Publishing with TeX on CTAN It is a real pleasure to announce that Kees van der Laan's long-awaited "BLU bible", Publishing with TeX, has been made available in the CTAN archives. This is, at fisrt sight, simply the manual for Kees's BLU complete macro package, but it is in fact much more - a philosophical treatise on TeX macro programming and using TeX. What is more, Kees makes it available to anyone who wants to pick it up and read it. Let us salute his generosity and talents. the 130 page PWT is on CTAN in info/pwt. Its in both PostScript and PDF form; the PS file uses Type1 CM fonts, so it should print on any printer. Kees will be making the sources available in due course. Sebastian Rahtz for CTAN From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 18 10:27:33 1995 Date: 18 Mar 1995 15:24:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: avinash@acm.org Subject: Re: itrans40.zip - Indian script: Devanagari/Tamil/Telugu/Bengali In article <9503180549.kp10810@simtel.coast.net> avinash@acm.org writes: >I have uploaded to SimTel, the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm), >(available by anonymous ftp from the primary mirror site OAK.Oakland.Edu >and its mirrors): > >ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/itrans40.zip >ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/tex/itransps.zip > >SimTel/msdos/tex/ >itrans40.zip Indian script: Devanagari/Tamil/Telugu/Bengali >itransps.zip PostScript printer ready manuals for ITRANS40 > >ITRANS is a pre-processor for use with TeX. It provides an ASCII >encoding for Indian Language Scripts, currently Devanagari, Tamil, >Telugu, and Bengali are supported. Documents written in the ITRANS >encoding can be printed out in the native scripts. Not all language >fonts are included with ITRANS, but fonts required are all freeware >and available at various FTP sites, see documentation for more >details. > >For Devanagari, TeX is not absolutely necessary, a direct PostScript >interface can be used, but that requires the user to know PostScript. > >Special requirements: PostScript printer, TeX. > >Changes: Support for CS/CSX encoding, inclusion of a TeX macro package >that eases use. > >itrans40.zip replaces itrans32.zip and all earlier versions. > >Copyrighted, FreeWare application. Uploaded by the author. > >Avinash Chopde Following a brief correspondance with Avinash, I have installed the same things as .tar.gz files on CTAN, as tex-archive/language/indian/itrans40.tar.gz tex-archive/language/indian/itransps.tar.gz (I deleted the old itrans32.tar.gz, since itrans40 supersedes it.) The installation was to ftp.tex.ac.uk; the files should propagate to the other sites overnight. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) -- Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rf/robin.html From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 18 12:47:11 1995 Date: 18 Mar 1995 17:37:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: J.Goldberg@cranfield.ac.uk Subject: Re: uploaded endfloat.tar.gz to uk incoming Jeffrey Gold berg writes: > I have placed endfloat.tar.gz in /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk. >[...] > It should \emph{replace} the material in > > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/endfloat/ > > as it is an updated version (2.3) replacing 2.2. > > The primary reason for this update is a bug fix regarding > endfloats handling of the |figure*| environment. I have replaced the original; the new version will make its way to the other CTANs in due course (probably overnight). Thanks for the contribution (it's good to see things in `supported' being supported...) Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 23 05:35:56 1995 Date: 23 Mar 1995 10:30:01 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: asnd@erich.triumf.ca Subject: Re: misc. uploads/updates In his inimitable way, Donald Arseneau writes: > I just uploaded some files to /incoming/asnd. There are a few version > updates, and some new tidbits that were originally responses on c.t.t. > > chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies; one per \included file. > 1.4 (11-MAR-1995) LaTeX2e, 2.09 > (update) macros/latex/contrib/other/misc > > dotseqn.dtx Format equations with leaders to the equation number. > 1.0 1995 LaTeX2e > NEW! ...contrib/... wherever Installed in macros/latex/contrib/other/dotseqn, together with a readme by me explaining that dotseqn.dtx both extracts its own contents and documents itself. > fwlw.sty First Word / Last Word of page printed in header/footer. > 1995 LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09 > "New" macros/latex/contrib/other/misc > > relsize.sty Setting font size realtive to the current size > 2.0 Mar 15, 1995 LaTeX2e > (update) macros/latex/contrib/other/misc > > placeins.tex prevent insertions from intruding into the following section > ver 2.0 Mar 3, 1995 Plain TeX > (fix, update) macros/plain/contrib > > random.tex Generating "random" numbers in TeX > 1.0 Plain TeX, LaTeX2.09, LaTeX2e > NEW perhaps "/generic" Wherever. Installed in macros/generic ---------- I have installed the files for which Donald indicated a location in the places he suggested, or where I have indicated in cases where he didn't make an explicit suggestion. This was all done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; the stuff will propagate to the other CTAN sites and to the mirrors in due course. Yet again, thank you Donald, for your continuing services to the whole TeX community. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 23 11:02:41 1995 Date: 23 Mar 1995 15:47:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: pictures without setting \unitlength In article <3kmmrk$al4@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, (Bruce Shawyer) wrote: >Since I use the picture environment a lot, and teach \LaTeX in a course >for second year university students, I have had a lot of experience in >setting \unitlength. Sometimes, when one changes a picture, \unitlength >must be re-set (if one remembers in advance). > >Thus, I have written a macro fullpict.sty with explanation >fullpict.doc [It defines] three new picture environments [in which] >\unitlength is set automatically using `a' to give a picture [at some >given proportion] of \textwidth. I have installed Bruce's stuff in CTAN directory macros/latex209/contrib/fullpict at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it will propagate to the other CTAN sites soon. He intends to perform qualification tests so that he can move it to macros/latex/contrib/supported some time soon. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From swift@acs.bu.edu Fri Mar 24 20:56:10 1995 Date: 24 Mar 1995 18:13:55 -0500 From: swift@acs.bu.edu Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: new LaTeX packages available -- general interest A new LaTeX 2e package called Frankenstein is now on CTAN in the directory: pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein Frankenstein consists of a main body and a number of peripheral parts. The main body must be considered in alpha stage until June. In other words, it barely works, and even then hardly does what it should and could do. Frankenstein is on CTAN now, however, because five of its parts are useful, robust, and available as separate packages. They are of general interest to LaTeX users, and are described briefly below. One of them is of particular interest to package and class writers; another implements a Chicago Manual bibliography style in a way that will be of interest to bibstyle writers. The bibstyle will eventually be ported to the new LaTeX 3 Camel citator engine. By robust I mean they are well-tested, and stable with respect to user syntax; further improvements will be extensions or internal improvements. A sixth part, includex.sty, is not stable in this respect, but is available anyway. The main body of Frankenstein is described more fully in the documentation (120+ pages of self-documented code), and in a separate file. A brief description is given at the end of this note. Everything is released under the conditions of the GNU General Public License. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + lips.sty \lips is a better macro for ellipses in text than \ldots, by the standard of the _Chicago Manual of Style_. Works for 2.09. + tmacros.sty _Text macros_ expand to a piece of text, and insert the proper space following, depending on context. What is proper is determined by the kernel's variable \nocorrlist and an analogous variable \nospacelist. _Abbreviation macros_ are text macros that expand to something different the first time they are used. It is expected that the second be an abbreviation of the first, but that need not be the case. Examples: \newname{ww}{William Wordsworth}{Wordsworth} \newbook{prelude}{The Prelude} % in italic \newname{jekyll}{Dr.~Henry Jekyll}{Jekyll} \newname{ama}{American Medical Association (AMA)}{AMA} The manuscripts of \ww's \prelude differ. . . . Before beginning \prelude, \ww wrote. . . . + includex.sty This package defines \include* to be an \include with no \clearpage's. With \includedoc, you can include only the document environment from a file. (This will later be extended to arbitrary environments, that is, bits. The present syntax, moreover, is not stable.) This package introduces some exciting possibilities for modularity among LaTeX files. The biggest difficulty at present is how to handle the scoping of definitions and commands, especially in the preamble. Presently, control is achieved through the somewhat primitive method of disabling certain commands. Further development of code and the establishment of coding protocols will eventually solve these difficulties. + achicago.sty + achicago.bst You need to load this package in order to use the bibstyle, which is compliant with the Chicago Manual's A style, but with B style author-date citations. It has some neat features like automatic placement of punctuation inside quotation marks, and handling of titles within titles, that bibstyle programmers may wish to examine. An option for annotations is available. The style file is written with an almost totally redone library of nice clean routines in the stack language. Compliance is high for book, article, inbook, incollection, manual; other entry types not guaranteed yet. + autoload.sty Provides a simple macro that lets you make a command load a package. Use this (carefully) to avoid loading big parts of a package that are infrequently used. Internals will likely change. + safedefs.sty Used by several of the others, this package defines some new defining commands that carefully avoid conflicts with command sequences, counters, token variables, booleans, and lengths. Writing these macros seemed necessary in order to maintain a large package which would offer some of its parts independently. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very briefly, Frankenstein's main body treats documents and pieces of documents as abstract, independent modules. A bare minimum of markup will be necessary to make existing files work with Frankenstein, and the whole package alters (almost?) nothing of the normal syntax of the standard styles. The canonical problem is putting together a book of poems and stories which each exist in separate compilable source files. Hence the name Frankenstein. It could just as well be a cookbook, or a collection of letters. And it is also an excellent way to control the presentation of individual documents. One has a widget, and wants to present it by itself, or combine it with other widgets and possibly wodgets, at different times in different ways. I have an essay, and I want to send it in for a contest, send it to an editor, print it out for a friend, include it in a newsletter, a letter, a book, And so on. Frankenstein handles this sort of thing. In a small way it implements some of the object-oriented principles described by the 2 authors in the 1994 TUGboat proceedings. It is a poor man's OOP processor. The package will initially be oriented towards humanities typesetting, but this is an artifact of its history. Matt Swift From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Mar 26 23:47:44 1995 Date: 26 Mar 1995 16:10:09 +0100 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: An experimental gTeX version of TeX--XeT was uploaded to CTAN In article , Young U . Ryu wrote: > >>An experimental gTeX version of TeX--XeT was uploaded to CTAN > >It is right now available as: > > ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/gtex/tex--xet.zip > tex--xet.txt > >They will go to the: > > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex > >directory. I have installed them in the directory suggested by Young. I (and the whole TeX community) have reason to grateful to Young for his hard work. Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 28 16:44:49 1995 Date: 28 Mar 1995 15:57:34 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released The LaTeX Programming Team wishes to announce the availability of Patchlevel 2 of the December 94 release of LaTeX2e. For a list of changes please consult the file patches.txt in the LaTeX2e distribution. A copy of the file is appended to this mail. For the LaTeX Programming Team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy ----------------patches.txt LaTeX Patches Guide 22 March 1995 This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made. Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and fixed. Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and December. Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in detail below. The changes of this type are described briefly at the end of this file, in chronological order. All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution subdirectory. Some reports are marked with a number such as latex/1487. This means that the original report, and any related correspondence, is available in the public bugs report database, available on the World Wide Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/bugs.html Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <1994/12/01> ============================================== New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and December. Between these releases it may be necessary to make small updates to fix major problems. We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called ltpatch.ltx. In order to update your LaTeX format you should put ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on latex.ltx. You do not need to unpack the latex sources again. In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be read just before the format file is `dumped'. This will correct any bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example, from: LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> to: LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2 Other changes ============= Note that ltpatch.ltx fixes only bugs that are present in the LaTeX format. Problems in packages, classes and other files will be fixed by re-issuing the appropriate files, some of which may need to be unpacked. Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1994/12/19) %%% latex/1275 \it \bf fix for first use in math mode. %%% latex/1274: \k{} doesn't produce an ogonek accent %%% (internal) Tracing code accidently left in production format. Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1995/03/13) %%% latex/1239: Bug report on ltbibl (base %%% 1240 (internal) Saving more memory %%% tools/1296: fontsmpl.tex gives TeX capacity exceeded %%% 1317 (internal) \@for expanding its argument incorectly %%% latex/1322: Again a problem with \^\i in headings ... %%% latex/1329 + 1332: %%% the primitive \abovewithdelims does not work in LaTeX %%% latex/1344 + 1463 emergencystretch %%% latex/1346: \@check@c needs to be \long %%% 1388 (internal) Saving space %%% latex/1392: AtBeginDvi broken %%% 1405 (internal) Make allocations non-outer %%% latex/1407 + 1420 Missing character if ams packages are used %%% 1440 (internal) Please use the math alphabet \@mathbfinstead %%% latex/1451: newline command \\ in eqnarray and output routine %%% latex/1487: filecontents ruins \typein %%% 1498 (internal, orig. from Donald Arseneau) \DeclareOption not \long %%% 1507 (internal) \newenvironment argument parsing. Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1994/12/01> -------------------------------------------------- This section details files that have changed in the `base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions. Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' distributions will be announced separately, if necessary. To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the .dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked files from ctan archives. base/compan.err More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion" base/slides.dtx Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support) base/classes.dtx Improve colour support. base/letter.dtx Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning) base/alltt.dtx Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369) base/latex209.dtx Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460 base/latexbug.tex Improve interactive messages. base/latexbug.el Make more robust for emacs customisation. tools/multicol.dtx Colour support tools/tabularx.dtx Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns tools/showkeys.dtx Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496 --- Copyright 1994-1995 the LaTeX3 project. All rights reserved --- From galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca Thu Mar 30 15:08:20 1995 Date: 30 Mar 1995 09:01:06 -0500 From: Peter Galko Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released At 1:38 PM 3/30/95, F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote: ... > >rainer> tools/multicol.dtx Colour support >rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns >rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496 > >However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files >under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995): > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx > >---Fran Everyone should also note that one other file was updated: tools/layout.dtx Rainer acknowledged this was an oversight in preparing the list of changed files. The tools/ updates were on the dante CTAN site when I looked on the 27th, but had only just been put there that day. At that moment the files hadn't made it to the SHSU CTAN site, but they are there now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Galko Tel: (613)-562-5800 ext. 6204 Room A509, Colonel By Hall FAX: (613)-562-5175 770 King Edward Avenue e-mail: galko@elg.uottawa.ca Department of Electrical Engineering or galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 6N5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 30 15:09:13 1995 Date: 30 Mar 1995 16:12:43 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released Fran Burstall writes: > rainer> tools/multicol.dtx Colour support > rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns > rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496 > > However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files > under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995): > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx We never got any installation commands to mirror the stuff in tools/, and I didn't notice that he'd announced changes to tools and so didn't chase it up. In fact, on dante, layout.dtx changed at the same time. Curiouser and curiouser, and he didn't even announce that. Robin From F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk Thu Mar 30 08:36:07 1995 Date: 30 Mar 1995 13:38:18 -0300 (BST) From: F.E.Burstall@maths.bath.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released In his announcement of patch 2, Rainer says: rainer> To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the rainer> .dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files rainer> or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked rainer> files from ctan archives. rainer> base/compan.err More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion" rainer> base/slides.dtx Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support) rainer> base/classes.dtx Improve colour support. rainer> base/letter.dtx Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning) rainer> base/alltt.dtx Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369) rainer> base/latex209.dtx Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460 rainer> base/latexbug.tex Improve interactive messages. rainer> base/latexbug.el Make more robust for emacs customisation. rainer> tools/multicol.dtx Colour support rainer> tools/tabularx.dtx Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns rainer> tools/showkeys.dtx Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496 However, at least at the UK CTAN, the updated versions of the files under tools do not seem to have arrived (as of 30 Mar 1995): -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 112421 Dec 17 18:03 multicol.dtx -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 13812 Dec 17 18:03 showkeys.dtx -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 28827 Dec 17 18:03 tabularx.dtx ---Fran From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr 1 00:06:32 1995 Date: 31 Mar 1995 17:34:52 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Damian Cugley: CTAN Submission Damian Cugley writes: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 18:46:54 BST From: Damian Cugley To: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN Submission > Your message should (a) [state] which site you have uploaded to (b) > state what file(s) you have uploaded, (c) include a brief overview of > what the file(s) is/are intended to do, and (d) where you recommend > placing your submission within the CTAN directory hierarchy. (a) ftp.tex.ac.uk (b) - -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ctan 2239 Mar 30 17:33 pdcmac-1.0.README - -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ctan 154470 Mar 30 17:32 pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz - -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ctan 179434 Mar 30 17:33 pdcmac-1.0.zip (The ZIP and tar.gz files contain the same files.) (c) A collection of plain TeX macros, including a font selection scheme, an output routine, formatting macros and some sample style files. These are new & improved versions of macro files from my Malvern distribution that have been absorbed by some distributions of Unix TeX. Has GNU-style auto-configuration and makefile for Unix systems. (d) tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/* Here's a copy of "pdcmac-1.0.README". It has a copy of my signature file at the end. If you want to keep a copy of this file in the installed directory, I suggest renaming it "announce.txt". (This file is *NOT* the same as the 00readme.txt inside the tarfile.) Thanks - -- Damian - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ announce.txt -*-text-*- Time-stamp: PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents What? PDCMAC is a collection of *non-LaTeX* macro files with (I hope) a reasonable division into mechanism files and policy files (which I call "style files"). There are sample style files included. Because the macros are designed to work within the conventions of plain TeX, editing them should be reasonably straightforward for anyone familiar with plain TeX. :-) Why? I use plain TeX to typeset magazines, and when it came to writing the Malvern Handbook I found it easier to generalize my zine macros than to work out how to do what I wanted to do with LaTeX 2.09. And so the Malvern distribution includes a lot of quirky TeX macro files. To my surprise these files have been absorbed into the UnixTeX distribution, despite idiosyncracies and many bugs that I never bothered to fix. Since distribution was now a _fait acompli_, I wanted to get the files debugged, rationalized, and documented, but every effort of documentation lead to my revising the macros so much the documentation was soon useless! In the end I stole the idea of DTX files from LaTeX 2e. My system is simpler than Docstrip + Doc-option, but uses the same idea of keeping documentation and code together in one file. Where? The package is available as a compressed tarfile (compressed with GNU zip) called pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz or pdcmac10.tgz (when short file names are mandatory). There are installation instructions and also a GNU-style configure script for use on Unix systems. It is currently available on the Oxford University Computing Laboratory FTP server: ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/tmp/Damian.Cugley/pdcmac-1.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/tmp/Damian.Cugley/pdcmac-1.0.zip On CTAN I expect the unpacked files it would go in: macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/ Who? P. Damian Cugley - -- P. Damian Cugley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK Alleged Literature, c/o Damian Cugley, 255B Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7HN, UK http://boothp1.ecs.ox.ac.uk:5705/people/pdc.html * My other computer is a Linux ------- End of Forwarded Message I have installed pdcmac, as suggested, on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites `soon'. Thanks, Damian, for the contribution Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From hafner@almaden.ibm.com Sat Apr 1 00:10:11 1995 Date: 31 Mar 1995 10:02:41 -0800 (PST) From: hafner@almaden.ibm.com Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: FoilTeX 2.0 for LaTeX2e installed on CTAN ****************************************************************** ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0 for LaTeX2e ********* ****************************************************************** I have recently uploaded the latest (actually second) release of the FoilTeX system for generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX. You should find it on your nearest CTAN in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex (Thanks to the maintainers for installing this!) ******************* About the package *************************** Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX, large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header. The new version has a number of enhancements: 1) This version is completely integrated as a LaTeX2e class package and so does not require it's own format file. 2) For users of Rokicki's dvips, I have added simple mechanisms for rotating individual foils or the entire document. 3) It now supports even larger fonts (up to about 51pt) using the standard relative font changing mechanisms (like \Huge). 4) Old FoilTeX files *should* run through with little problem in compatibility mode. 5) There are class options for adding a line below the header and/or above the footer (sort of like fancyheadings.sty). 6) Because it is integrated into LaTeX2e, there is no need for many of the additional files that came with the original version (e.g., the modified psfonts stuff, stuff for ams fonts, colordvi.sty or system specific files). 7) It has been packaged using the docstrip utilities for ease of distribution and maintenance. 8) It fully supports the usual float environments (like table and figure) but the actual floating has been disabled. In this way they appear exactly where you place them, but the interface is standard LaTeX2e. 9) I added a 35mmSlide class option to get a page size that can easily convert to film. Note: this package has certain use restrictions so please read the user agreement in the foiltex.ins file. It is copyright 1995 by IBM. The package consists of three files: readme.flt, foiltex.ins and foiltex.dtx. The last of these is the self-documented source files. You can run latex on foiltex.ins to unpack the files. Running latex on foiltex.dtx will generate the user guide. As usual, comments, suggestions, bug reports and fixes are welcome. *********************** Acknowledgements ************************** I would be remiss if I failed to acknowledge all the help I got in putting this together. First of course is IBM. Next is all the users of the first release for their words of encouragement, suggestions and bug reports. Third is the entire LaTeX3 team. These guys deserve a tremendous cheer of support for what they have done to enhance LaTeX's functionality as well as manageability both at the system level and the class design level. This new FoilTeX was incredibly easy to integrate into LaTeX because of the wonderful code design. They also deserve my personal thanks for answering so many of my dumb and not-so-dumb questions during the design, conversion and implementation. Special thanks to David Carlisle, Frank Mittelbach, Allan Jeffrey and Sebastian Rahtz. They never let a question go unanswered and always had good suggestions. Jim Hafner ...................................................................... IBM Research Division Phone: (408) 927-1892 Almaden Research Center K53/802 FAX: (408) 927-3030 650 Harry Road Bitnet: hafner@almaden San Jose, CA 95120-6099 Internet: hafner@almaden.ibm.com ...................................................................... "The history of science rewrites itself each day. We're living in days of wonder, Simon says." Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe ...................................................................... From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr 1 10:04:09 1995 Date: 01 Apr 1995 15:53:11 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Mangling of ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/macros/latex I contrived to have the nightly mirror process delete (almost) all of the LaTeX tree here. I have restored the files (as best I can) by re-mirroring from ftp.dante.de and from ftp.shsu.edu My humble apologies are offered to anyone inconvenienced by my cack- handedness. Robin Fairbairns (Not presuming, for once, to speak for the CTAN team.) From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Apr 1 05:10:19 1995 Date: Sat, 01 Apr 95 12:00:44 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, linux-asia@li.org, soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 1 I've just uploaded a beta version of CJK 2.5 to ftp.dante.de . It should be available soon on all CTAN servers and its mirror sites. [CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable Chinese/Japanese/Korean in various encodings (including Unicode)] Werner From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Apr 3 12:02:00 1995 Date: 03 Apr 1995 12:58:40 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: New Patchlevel for LaTeX2e released On 28th March, Rainer posted to this list to announce `Patch level 2' of the current LaTeX release. * There were unfortunately some problems with the mirroring between ctan sites, and so the `unpacked' distribution was not correctly updated at all ctan sites at that time. This has now been rectified. * Also, that release introduced a slight problem with the \sqrt command, so ltpatch.ltx has been updated again to bring LaTeX to LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 3 (If you have already installed patch level 2, you just need to obtain ltpatch.ltx, and re-run initex on latex.ltx) * Lastly the patch level 2 announcement omitted to mention that `layout.tex' in the tools bundle has also been updated. Apologies for any confusion caused by these problems. David Carlisle For the LaTeX Programming Team Here is the announcement of `patch level 2' again: ================================================================== The LaTeX Programming Team wishes to announce the availability of Patchlevel 2 of the December 94 release of LaTeX2e. For a list of changes please consult the file patches.txt in the LaTeX2e distribution. A copy of the file is appended to this mail. For the LaTeX Programming Team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy ----------------patches.txt LaTeX Patches Guide 22 March 1995 This document describes the procedure by which changes to the LaTeX distribution in between the six-monthly releases will be made. Such changes will be made only when major problems are discovered and fixed. Other changes will only be made twice a year, in June and December. Changes which affect the file latex.ltx, and hence the format, are called `patches to the LaTeX kernel': this concept is described in detail below. The changes of this type are described briefly at the end of this file, in chronological order. All changes to all files should be listed, in reverse-time order, in the files called changes.txt: there is one in each distribution subdirectory. Some reports are marked with a number such as latex/1487. This means that the original report, and any related correspondence, is available in the public bugs report database, available on the World Wide Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/latex/bugs.html Patches to the LaTeX kernel dated <1994/12/01> ============================================== New releases of LaTeX will occur at six-monthly intervals, in June and December. Between these releases it may be necessary to make small updates to fix major problems. We have made it relatively easy to install updates that affect only the format---by placing all these changes in one file, called ltpatch.ltx. In order to update your LaTeX format you should put ltpatch.ltx where it can be read by iniTeX and then run iniTeX on latex.ltx. You do not need to unpack the latex sources again. In this run of iniTeX, the file ltpatch.ltx (if it exists) will be read just before the format file is `dumped'. This will correct any bugs and it will modify the opening banner of LaTeX: for example, from: LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> to: LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2 Other changes ============= Note that ltpatch.ltx fixes only bugs that are present in the LaTeX format. Problems in packages, classes and other files will be fixed by re-issuing the appropriate files, some of which may need to be unpacked. Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1994/12/19) %%% latex/1275 \it \bf fix for first use in math mode. %%% latex/1274: \k{} doesn't produce an ogonek accent %%% (internal) Tracing code accidently left in production format. Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 2 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1995/03/13) %%% latex/1239: Bug report on ltbibl (base %%% 1240 (internal) Saving more memory %%% tools/1296: fontsmpl.tex gives TeX capacity exceeded %%% 1317 (internal) \@for expanding its argument incorectly %%% latex/1322: Again a problem with \^\i in headings ... %%% latex/1329 + 1332: %%% the primitive \abovewithdelims does not work in LaTeX %%% latex/1344 + 1463 emergencystretch %%% latex/1346: \@check@c needs to be \long %%% 1388 (internal) Saving space %%% latex/1392: AtBeginDvi broken %%% 1405 (internal) Make allocations non-outer %%% latex/1407 + 1420 Missing character if ams packages are used %%% 1440 (internal) Please use the math alphabet \@mathbfinstead %%% latex/1451: newline command \\ in eqnarray and output routine %%% latex/1487: filecontents ruins \typein %%% 1498 (internal, orig. from Donald Arseneau) \DeclareOption not \long %%% 1507 (internal) \newenvironment argument parsing. Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1994/12/01> -------------------------------------------------- This section details files that have changed in the `base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions. Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' distributions will be announced separately, if necessary. To activate the non-kernel updates you have to retrieve the .dtx files and unpack them with their corresponding .ins files or alternatively (for the files in `base') you may obtain the unpacked files from ctan archives. base/compan.err More corrections to "The LaTeX Companion" base/slides.dtx Fix for graphics/1335 (colour support) base/classes.dtx Improve colour support. base/letter.dtx Fix for latex/1375 (address label positioning) base/alltt.dtx Modify so \verb?\? works. (latex/1369) base/latex209.dtx Fix latex/1424 (\newcommand{\r}{}), and latex/1460 base/latexbug.tex Improve interactive messages. base/latexbug.el Make more robust for emacs customisation. tools/multicol.dtx Colour support tools/tabularx.dtx Allow \tabularx to be used in \newenvironment defns tools/showkeys.dtx Assorted improvements: tools/1181/1434/1496 --- Copyright 1994-1995 the LaTeX3 project. All rights reserved --- From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 4 05:54:35 1995 Date: 04 Apr 1995 09:36:33 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: zaccone@bucknell.edu Subject: Re: Excalibur 2.1 Installed on CTAN (UK) as requested. should propagate to the other sites within the next 24 hours Thanks, Rick sebastian rahtz > I have uploaded Excalibur 2.1 into you incoming directory. You should > replace > > tex-archive/systems/mac/support/excalibur/Excalibur-20-sea.hqx > > with this file. Attached is a brief description. > > Rick Zaccone > -- > zaccone@bucknell.edu > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is release 2.1 of Excalibur (3/28/95). It fixes all known bugs. > If you know about a bug that I haven't fixed, please let me know. > > Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker for LaTeX documents. You can > optionally turn off LaTeX parsing, so Excalibur is a good plain text > spelling checker too. > > Features include: > > - Excalibur will offer suggestions for how to correct a word. > > - Excalibur can spell check the clipboard. This makes it a good > spelling checker for any text based application such as Alpha, BBEdit, > or Eudora. > > - You can teach it about new LaTeX commands and environments that you > define. > > - Optionally spell checks text in the typewriter (\tt) font. > > - You can create your own dictionaries. > > - Works with Textures and OzTeX documents. It should work on any TEXT > file. > > - You will need System 6.0.5 or higher to run Excalibur. > > - If you are running System 7 or greater, there is balloon help. > > - Excalibur is free. > > - British, Dutch, French, German, and Italian dictionaries are also > available. > > - It runs in native mode on a PowerPC. This is a fat binary. > > Version 2.1 changes: > > - Excalibur now has a new look! > > - There are better error message when Excalibur detects a syntax error. > > - There are better error messages when doing conversions. > > Rick Zaccone > zaccone@bucknell.edu > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Wed Apr 5 12:04:02 1995 Date: 05 Apr 1995 11:03:31 -0500 (EST) From: tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: CTAN Submission: MetaPost for OS/2 On behalf of the original OS/2 implementor Peter Miller (miller@hac2arpa.hac.com) I'm pleased to announce the availabilitry of MetaPost 0.62 for OS/2 (and DOS?). >From John D. Hobby's original announcement of the public release of MetaPost: "The MetaPost language is based on METAFONT, but it outputs PostScript and it has the facilities for including TeX output and manipulating the resuling picture." It's now in the incoming/MetaPost4OS2 directory at ftp.dante.de. It will soon propagate to the other mirrors. It should be found in /tex-archive/systems/os2/metapost. The package consists of: 0. INSTALL - Installation instructions 1. mp_exe.zip - mp.exe 2. config.mp - text file containing Peter's metapost setup for CONFIG.SYS 3. mp_lib1.zip - containing the contents of the mp/bin library 4. mp_lib2.zip - containing the remaining contents of the mp/ library: 5. mp_test.zip - contains a little test file to test the installation. MP uses an Unix shell-script during runtime, so you have to install 6. mh_sh23.zip - DataLogic Shell Version 2.3 If you do not have at least emtex beta12 you also have to install the latest emx-runtime 7. emxrt.zip - emx runtime package To compile the original sources, which can be found on CTAN at tex-archive/graphics/metapost, you need 8. tftopl.zip - containing tftopl.exe 9. pltotf.zip - containing pltotf.exe 10. tangle.zip - containing tangle.exe 11. web2c.zip - containing web2c.exe 12. patches.zip - containing the patches Peter applied to the original sources For a running version you need at least 0.-6. and propably 7. For recompiling you need the emx 0.9a package, files 8.-12. and the original WEB sources for MetaPost (CTAN:tex-archive/graphics/metapost). To unpack the archives you need OS/2 ports of Info-ZIPs UNZIP and ports of the UNIX tools GNUzip and tar if you want to recompile the packages. All can be found on CTAN in the tools-subdirectory. Happy MetaPosting, Uwe Baumert (baumert@uni-muenster.de) ******************************************************************************** * Institute for General Zoology and Genetics * * University of Muenster * * Schlossplatz 5 Tel.: +49 251 834675 * * D-48149 Muenster, Germany Fax: +49 251 834723 * ******************************************************************************** From Damian.Cugley@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Fri Apr 7 15:46:51 1995 Date: 07 Apr 1995 19:02:13 -0300 (BST) From: Damian Cugley Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: malvern@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Subject: PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents PDCMAC 1.0: Macros for plain TeX documents What? PDCMAC is a collection of plain TeX macros, including a font selection scheme, an output routine, formatting macros and some sample style files. These are new & improved versions of macro files from my Malvern distribution that have apparantly been absorbed by some distributions of Unix TeX. Because the macros are designed to work within the conventions of plain TeX, editing them should be reasonably straightforward for anyone familiar with plain TeX. :-) It has GNU-style auto-configuration and makefile for Unix systems. Why? I use plain TeX to typeset magazines, and when it came to writing the Malvern Handbook I found it easier to generalize my zine macros than to work out how to do what I wanted to do with LaTeX 2.09. And so the Malvern distribution includes a lot of quirky TeX macro files. To my surprise these files have been absorbed into the Unix TeX distribution, despite idiosyncracies and many bugs that I never bothered to fix. Since distribution was now a _fait acompli_, I wanted to get the files debugged, rationalized, and documented, but every effort of documentation lead to my revising the macros so much the documentation was soon useless! In the end I stole the idea of DTX files from LaTeX 2e. My system is simpler than Docstrip + Doc-option, but uses the same idea of keeping documentation and code together in one file. Where? On CTAN the unpacked files are in macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/ , and the tarfile is macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.tar.gz . Who? P. Damian Cugley -- P. Damian Cugley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK Alleged Literature, c/o Damian Cugley, 255B Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7HN, UK http://boothp1.ecs.ox.ac.uk:5705/people/pdc.html * My other computer is a Linux From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 10 15:15:11 1995 Date: 10 Apr 1995 11:55:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX 94-12-01 pl 3 released On behalf of the LaTeX programming team I'd like to announce the availability of patchlevel 3 of the December 94 release of LaTeX. It fixes one problem introduced in pl2, namely \sqrt not working properly. The LaTeX sources are, as usual, in CTAN:macros/latex/base or CTAN:macros/latex/unpacked If you have already grabbed pl2, the only file to update is ltpatch.ltx. On behalf of the LaTeX team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 10 15:14:44 1995 Date: 10 Apr 1995 11:58:11 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: CTAN Submission: biblio/tib kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (hans-peter kolb) uploaded a replacement for biblio/tib to CTAN. ------------------------------------------------------------------ TiB James Alexander's bibliographic preprocessor for (La)TeX in an easy-to-install distribution (at least under UNIX) put together by hans-peter kolb (kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de). It includes: - JA's original TiB-sources in a reasonable directory structure; - Sebastian Kremer's TiB-extensions (cf. sk/README); - a small EMACS-utility for using TiB with your favorite EMACS-(La)TeX-mode (also by S. Kremer--- cf. elisp/tib.el); - a Makefile making installation (with or without SK's extensions) and testing of TiB a lot more comfortable. Basically, if you have a standard setup with the TeX-tree rooted in /usr/local/lib/texmf, all you have to do is make ja for the original TiB, or make sk for TiB with SK's extensions plus make install.all and you're set. A different setup requires just a few variables at the top of the Makefile to be changed. But please, do read the file INSTALL anyway... To make this absolutely clear: All the interesting stuff in this distribution is by James Alexander and Sebastian Kremer. All I take credit (and blame) for is the repackaging and the Makefiles... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hans-peter kolb kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Universit"at T"ubingen/SfS +49-7071-297315 Kleine Wilhelmstrasse 113 +49-7071-72465 (priv.) D-72074 T"ubingen (Germany) FAX: +49-7071-550520 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr 11 11:22:22 1995 Date: 11 Apr 1995 13:39:13 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Frank Jensen Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Frank Jensen writes: > I have uploaded a new version of the `calc' package (described in The > LaTeX Companion) to ftp.dante.de (incoming/calc.tar.gz). > > Change from previous version: A one-level expansion of the expression > argument is now performed prior to evaluation. Thanks a lot, the update has been installed on ftp.dante.de from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 12 10:02:46 1995 Date: 12 Apr 1995 12:34:35 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: R A Bailey Subject: LMS package installed Following a suggestion from an UK mathematician, I've installed the London Mathematical Society's package as /public/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/lms/lms.sty /lmsguide.tex /lmssampl.tex /readme.txt on ftp.tex.ac.uk It'll propagate to the other CTANs in due course... (It's rumoured that a LaTeX2e version is under wraps.) R From BENES@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz Wed Apr 12 08:19:48 1995 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:21:19 MET-0100 From: Miroslav Benes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Hi, folks these informations about new versions of software are very good thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the QadxWrd is. Thanks in advance Mirek Benes ------------------------------------------------------------------- Miroslav Benes Dept. of Computer Science & Eng. voice: +42-5-7275/238 Technical University of Brno fax: +42-5-41211141 Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno Czech Republic e-mail: benes@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 13 06:12:32 1995 Date: 13 Apr 1995 09:55:23 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: BENES@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Miroslav Benes writes: > these informations about new versions of software are very good > thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the > announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about > the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of > a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 > has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the > QadxWrd is. Indeed. We do ask those who wish to submit to provide us with something to fill this bill, and if they supply it, we post it. However, none of the archivists has the time to work out what someone else's package does; therefore, if nothing is supplied, nothing gets posted. Sorry about that... Robin Fairbairns From sanders@umich.edu Thu Apr 13 18:47:58 1995 Date: 13 Apr 1995 10:17:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Sanders Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX 94-12-01 pl 3 released On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > On behalf of the LaTeX programming team I'd like to announce the > availability of patchlevel 3 of the December 94 release of LaTeX. It > fixes one problem introduced in pl2, namely \sqrt not working > properly. > I installed the patch successfully, but... What, exactly, was the \sqrt problem? Both pl2 and pl3 seem to pass the tests I tried. (T.) Michael Sanders internet: sanders@umich.edu Physics Department bitnet: sanders@umiphys University of Michigan phone: 313/936-0799 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 FAX: 313/764-6843 From tim@maths.tcd.ie Thu Apr 13 20:15:41 1995 Date: 13 Apr 1995 14:48:30 +0000 (BST) From: Timothy Murphy Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission > > > > these informations about new versions of software are very good > > thing, but I (and, I'm sure, all of us) would be very happy if the > > announcements always contain any short information (3 lines?) about > > the purpose of the uploaded package. For users of previous versions of > > a package it's not necessary, but the message "QadxWrd version 6.2831 > > has been uploaded...." is of no use for me, if I do not know what the > > QadxWrd is. > > Indeed. We do ask those who wish to submit to provide us with > something to fill this bill, and if they supply it, we post it. Might I suggest, very tentatively, that the Linux system might be followed, where each piece of software is accompanied by a short .lsm file which describes the software. Here for example is eps.lsm which accompanies the DVI-to-Epson driver "eps": ========================================================= Begin2 Title = eps-0.6.2 - dvi driver for epson-like printers Version = 0.6.2 Desc1 = This is a driver to print dvi files on epson-like printers. Desc2 = This version is highly configurable and should be able to handle Desc3 = many kinds of printers. You must get version 0.6.2 to compile with Desc4 = gcc-2.5.8. Author = Neal Becker AuthorEmail = neal@ctd.comsat.com Maintainer = Neal Becker MaintEmail = neal@ctd.comsat.com Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu Path1 = pub/Linux/apps/tex File1 = eps-0.6.2.tar.gz FileSize1 = 104647 Site2 = ftp.ctd.comsat.com Path2 = pub Required1 = c++, TeX CopyPolicy1 = see source Keywords = TeX, dvi EnteredBy = Neal Becker End ========================================================= From drw@umassmed.UMMED.EDU Sat Apr 15 04:40:27 1995 Date: 14 Apr 1995 12:35:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Waud Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission When I first read that message about accompanying CTAN submissions with some background on the specific files being offered, my heart raced because here was a chance to help out. Although I tend not to know very much about TeX, here, for once, was something I could deal with. But, I assumed that, if the issue were that simple, others would respond. So I did not. Now, however, I note that no help was offered so let me try to be helpful. The issue was simply that the message >>QadxWrd version 6.2831 has been uploaded was of no use to the individual posting the query. Let me explain. First note that DOS requires that file names be no longer than 8 characters. Therefore one has to abbreviate. However one can usually read between the lines and decipher what the name is short for. In the present example, one can break the name down into three parts --- Qa dx and Wrd. Now Qa obviously means ``Quality assurance''; that part is easy. The dx may not be immediately obvious but let me call on my medical background to clarify. You are probably familiar with Rx, actually written as an R with a slash across the righthand foot. This is used in prescriptions and, from there, is used by physicians to denote ``therapy'' more generally. It is then as small step from there to using ``dx'' as a abbreviation for ``diagnosis''. Finally we come to the Wrd. Now here we have vintage TeX. Indeed, I spend a lot of time ``Looking up weird error in the index'' to the TeXbook. So now you can see how it all comes together. That program QadxWrd was obviously developed to put some quality into diagnosis of ``weird errors''. One final note: are you sure it is version 6.2831 and not 6.2731? Might there be a typo in there? doug -- ****************************************************************************** Douglas R. Waud (S7-137) (Bitnet: drw@umassmed) Department of Pharmacology (Internet: drw@ummed.edu) U. Massachusetts Med. Sch. (aka 146.189.16.2) 55 Lake Avenue North (FAX: 508-856 5080) Worcester, MA, 01655-0216 (Voice: 508 856 3339) ****************************************************************************** From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Apr 19 06:47:08 1995 Date: 19 Apr 1995 10:37:37 +0100 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package In article , Peter Williams wrote: >A new version of the harvard bibliographic package is available for ftp at > >ftp://ftp.arch.su.edu.au/pub/harvard/harvard-2.0.6.tar.gz > >This version contains modifications to prevent the expansion of macros that >appear in citations and is due to Kristoffer H. Rose > >For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description >is available via the WWW at > >http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard I have replaced the old version on CTAN at tex-archive/macros/ latex/contrib/supported/harvard with Peter's new version. It's available now on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will propagate to the other CTANs in due course. From smoliar@iss.nus.sg Thu Apr 20 10:05:33 1995 Date: 20 Apr 1995 12:37:08 +0800 From: Stephen Smoliar Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package >> >>For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description >>is available via the WWW at >> >>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard > I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out to lunch. Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is this still only for LaTeX2e? (I still have to work with papers sent to me in 2.09.) Stephen W. Smoliar (smoliar@iss.nus.sg); Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace; Kent Ridge SINGAPORE 0511; Tel: +65-772-3350; FAX: +65-473-9897 From swift@acs.bu.edu Thu Apr 20 23:55:17 1995 Date: 20 Apr 1995 14:22:12 -0400 From: swift@acs.bu.edu Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: swift@acs.bu.edu Subject: GNU Emacs major modes for LateX and LaTeX doc.sty documents Now at your local CTAN: $CTAN:pub/tex/support/emacs-modes/swiftex.el >From the internal documentation: ;;;; INTRODUCTION ;;; ;;; This file defines major modes swifTeX and docTeX. ;;; ;;; swifTeX mode is for editing buffers containing normal LaTeX files, and ;;; provides an alternative to the LateX modes in the standard Emacs ;;; distribution and the AUC TeX package. ;;; ;;; docTeX mode is for editing buffers containing self-documenting LaTeX code ;;; that uses the package "doc.sty", including the document class "ltxdoc". ;;; For these buffers, docTeX mode is significantly more useful than the ;;; alternatives provided by standard Emacs and AUC TeX. ;;; ;;; These modes are derived from the LaTeX mode in "tex-mode.el" (distributed ;;; with GNU Emacs) using the autoloaded function `define-derived-mode' in ;;; "derived.el" (also part of the standard distribution). ;;; ;;; The principal additions allow convenient, precise control over filling and ;;; outlining. There are also a few improvements to help save typing. In ;;; docTeX mode, functions are provided to help manage LaTeX file versions and ;;; dates. These major modes are fully documented and well-tested. ;;; Regards, Matt Swift member of the League for Programming Freedom From sanders@umich.edu Thu Apr 20 22:21:25 1995 Date: 20 Apr 1995 14:37:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Sanders Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Stephen Smoliar Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu, peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package >>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard > > I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out > to lunch. Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is > this still only for LaTeX2e? (I still have to work with papers sent to me > in 2.09.) I had the same experience with the http:// address, but the ftp worked just fine. I don't know about LaTeX 2.09, but harvard.sty contains the lines: %% harvard.sty - harvard bibliography style Version 2.0.5 %% Author: Peter Williams peterw@archsci.arch.su.edu.au %% Copyright: Peter Williams 1994 \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesPackage{harvard} (In spite of the first line, this came from harvard-2.0.6.tar.gz) (T.) Michael Sanders internet: sanders@umich.edu Physics Department bitnet: sanders@umiphys University of Michigan phone: 313/936-0799 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 FAX: 313/764-6843 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Apr 22 03:21:52 1995 Date: 20 Apr 1995 21:10:51 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Version 2.0.6 of Harvard Bibliographic Package Stephen Smoliar writes: > >>For those unfamiliar with the harvard bibliographic package a description > >>is available via the WWW at > >> > >>http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~peterw/latex/harvard > > > I just tried to check this, and archsci:80 is either off the air or out to > lunch. Can anyone tell me if LaTeX 2.09 has been restored, or is this still > only for LaTeX2e? (I still have to work with papers sent to me in 2.09.) You could look at it on CTAN by now. It didn't seem very different to the previous version to me, as I scanned it before installation. R From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 28 05:42:28 1995 Date: 28 Apr 1995 09:26:29 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (update, German node) Mats Dahlgren (matsd@physchem.kth.se) has submiited an update for his achemso package which has been installed on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso The readme file follows: The `achemso' package formats BibTeX output in accordance with the requirements of most journals of The American Chemical Society. It also provides a convenient LaTeX interface to be used with the BibTeX style file(s). For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri May 5 08:16:16 1995 Date: 28 Apr 1995 18:04:14 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Ricard Torres Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Ricard Torres writes: > (1) I have uploaded the file "tx.zip" to ftp.dante.de:/incoming > > (2) The program is a very simple menu for TeX users on msdos systems. > It allows up to 10 interrelated menus, completely configurable by > the user. Both an executable file and the source are included. > The program is free, and licensed to users under the terms of the > GNU general public license. > > (3) It can be placed in either of two directories of the CTAN > archives (the first one seems more natural, as "tx" is usable with > distributions other than emtex). > > (a) /tex-archive/systems/msdos > (b) /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib > > The zip file contains its own directory hierarchy, starting with > "./tx". According to the way most packages are distributed in CTAN, it > seems that the most appropriate thing to do is to unzip the file > (becoming, for instance, /tex-archive/systems/msdos/tx if the > alternative (a) is chosen). I decided to install it under path a). THanks for your submission. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Sat Apr 29 12:02:25 1995 Date: 28 Apr 1995 18:22:22 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: [Feynman diagrams for LaTeX] FEYNMF v0.9 released This announces a new version of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman diagrams. This version features a new ``immediate'' mode, which allows to access Metafont's wonderful expressiveness much more conveniently. I plan to release this version as version 1.0 after revising the manual. If you're desperate for a feature or have suggestions for the manual, this is the time to speak up. I will be very reluctant about adding features, but hints for the manual are welcome. This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Below is the README file. Enjoy, -Thorsten /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 # $Id: README,v 1.15 1995/04/28 01:20:45 ohl Exp $ ######################################################################## This is feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman diagrams. feynmf lays out most diagrams satisfactorily from the structure of the graph without any need for manual intervention. Nevertheless all the power of Metafont is available for the most obscure cases. See the documentation for appetizers, examples and more details. Anyway, you are invited to share, use, abuse, and improve it, see the file COPYING for details. Enjoy, -Thorsten ######################################################################## Installation: You need a recent LaTeX (LaTeX2e, as of June 1994 is sufficient) to use feynmf, docstrip.tex to install it and doc.sty to typeset the documentation. If it is not already on your system, you can get all this (and much more) from your nearest CTAN host. To install, either use the Makefile or use the installation file feynmf.ins: $ latex feynmf.ins then you can typeset the documentation by $ latex fmfman.drv $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsampl' $ latex fmfman.drv $ makeindex -s gind.ist -o fmfman.ind fmfman.idx $ makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fmfman.gls fmfman.glo $ latex fmfman.drv or by using the Makefile (`make man'). That's it. There is another installation file for LaTeX 2.09 compatible versions: feynmf209.ins. This file has to be processed _in addition_ to feynmf.ins! ######################################################################## Comments, bug reports and improvements are welcome at: Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de (aka: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de) New versions can be found in: crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf or at CTAN: {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}: ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf There are two mailing lists feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de feynmf-bugs@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de both are open for subscription. The former should be very low volume and carry only important announcements. The latter can serve as a more general discussion forum. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de and NOT to the lists itself. The following commands (on a line in the body of the mail, not in the subject) are useful: `subscribe feynmf-announce', `unsubscribe feynmf-bugs', `help', etc. ######################################################################## NEWS for Version 0.9beta (Id:) o implemented immediate mode commands o tadpoles (i.e. arcs coming from and going to the same vertex) o zig-zag lines o optional straight galleries for external vertices o prettier MetaPost pictures in the introduction. NEWS for Version 0.8beta (Id:feynmf.dtx,v 1.10 1995/02/18 16:42:18) o provide compatibility hacks for LaTeX 2.09 o plugged string memory hole. o streamline line styles and provide some more. o fix compatibility with AMS-LaTeX o \fmffixed: specify fixed distances between vertices. NEWS for Version 0.7beta (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.9 1994/10/23 20:27:58) o generalized decorations. o incompatible change in line and vertex options: dist -> label.dist, angle -> label.angle, etc. o interfaces are stabilizing, we're moving towards beta now. NEWS for Version 0.6alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.7 1994/10/22 19:35:00) o export a more consistent set of looping commands to LaTeX. o fix a stupid bug in the new arrow code. NEWS for Version 0.5alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.6 1994/10/21 00:41:00): o shrinking dimensions. o prettier (?) arrows on curved arcs. o optional argument to the left and right options for pulling in and pushing out detours. NEWS for Version 0.4alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.5 1994/05/28 12:10:04): o MetaPost support. NEWS for Version 0.3alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.4 1994/05/26 18:36:01): o ensure that a METAFONT output stream is open. NEWS for Version 0.2alpha (Id: feynmf.dtx,v 1.3 1994/05/20 22:59:38): o fixed compatibility bugs (closing wrong output stream, using \fileversion when already invalid). o better RCS version control support. ######################################################################## # Local Variables: # mode:indented-text # End: From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May 4 23:19:02 1995 Date: 04 May 1995 13:11:55 +0100 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e? In article <3ngeu6$9oa@news-rocq.inria.fr>, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >I'd like to use oldstyle numbers for page numbers, equations numbers, etc. > >Is this possible? Does it work well with PostScript fonts (do PS >fonts have these numbers, anyway). And what about theorems >environments? I guess that bold oldstyle nums, if they exist, look >rather ugly. As a small exercise, I've produced an oldstyle package and have just installed it on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/oldstyle It defines three commands, \oldstyle (an old-style selector for oldstyle numbers), \textos and \mathos. To do this, you need two files, oldstyle.sty and Ucmm.fd (both generated from oldstyle.dtx by oldstyle.ins). I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets, since fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's latest greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals). The numerals are available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never seen them used in TeX. From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Thu May 4 23:40:12 1995 Date: Fri, 05 May 95 03:43:38 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET> Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 4 I just uploaded the new beta version at ftp.dante.de; it will be soon available at all CTAN hosts and its mirrors. ~MCJK is a LaTeX2e macro package for writing Chinese/Japanese/KoreanŲ most important changes beta 3 -> beta 4: bug fixes in MakeTeXPK pinyin.sty added for writing Pinyin syllables caption files for various encodings added koma-script style files added (only temporary). These replacements for the standard style files understand the above CJK caption files. From J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Mon May 8 10:04:53 1995 Date: 05 May 1995 23:15:15 +0200 From: Johannes L. Braams Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e? On Thursday, May 4 Robin.Fairbairns wrote: > I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets, > since fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's > latest greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals). The > numerals are available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never > seen them used in TeX. I have, I do it myself. (created my mf's before fontinst came around and put the oldstyle numerals in with the small caps font... Johannes Braams PTT Telecom, P.O. box 30150, 2500 GD 's Gravenhage The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3432037 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3432395 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Tue May 9 18:38:06 1995 Date: 06 May 1995 17:39:34 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, metafont@ens.fr Subject: [LaTeX,Metafont,Graphics,Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.0 released This announces version 1.0 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. It supersedes all preliminary 0.x versions. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz'). It is provided to wet your appetite with numerous examples. If there are other areas of science and engineering that could use a generalized version of feynmf, I would be glad to help with such generalizations. But I don't plan to turn feynmf into a general purpose drawing package, this base is covered by mfpic. It should be simple to port feynmf to other TeX macro packages. I would be glad to fold contributed ports into the main source tree. This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Below are some notes for users of the preliminary versions and the README file. Enjoy, -Thorsten /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 NOTES: * There is one incompatible change w.r.t. version 0.9 if you're using the |vloc| and |vpath| functions: the arguments have to be prepended with two underscores now: Old (0.x): => New (1.x): \fmf{plain}{u,v} => \fmf{plain}{u,v} % unchanged vloc (v) => vloc (__v) vpath (u,v) => vpath (__u,__v) I hope that this change is not too disturbing. It will save you from some hairy errors when you accidentally hit upon a reserved word in Metafont. * `fmfchar' is called `fmfgraph' now. This should be more intuitive (don't panic: the old names continue to work as aliases). # $Id: README,v 1.16 1995/05/06 11:38:05 ohl Exp $ ######################################################################## This is feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman diagrams. feynmf lays out most diagrams satisfactorily from the structure of the graph without any need for manual intervention. Nevertheless all the power of Metafont is available for more obscure cases. See the documentation for appetizers, examples and more details. A preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') is provided to wet your appetite with numerous examples. Anyway, you are invited to share, use, abuse, and improve it, see the file COPYING for details. Enjoy, -Thorsten ######################################################################## Installation: You need a recent LaTeX (LaTeX2e, as of December 1994 is sufficient) to use feynmf, docstrip.tex to install it and doc.sty to typeset the documentation. If it is not already on your system, you can get all this (and much more) from your nearest CTAN host. To install, either use the Makefile or use the installation file feynmf.ins: $ latex feynmf.ins then you can typeset the documentation by $ latex fmfman.drv $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsamp1' $ mf '\mode:=laserjet; input fmfsamp2' $ latex fmfman.drv $ makeindex -s gind.ist -o fmfman.ind fmfman.idx $ makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fmfman.gls fmfman.glo $ latex fmfman.drv or by using the Makefile (`make man'). That's it. There is another installation file for LaTeX 2.09 compatible versions: feynmf209.ins. This file has to be processed _in addition_ to feynmf.ins! ######################################################################## WARNING: If LaTeX fails with `Unknown graphics extension: 3', you have a slightly out-of-date graphics.sty file (LaTeX will have issued a warning in this case). There has been a change to the user interface, which makes it very hard to support both versions. Sorry. I have chosen to support the current one, which will hopefully be stable. You can work around this by either getting a more recent graphics package from CTAN (macros/latex/packages/graphics) or by using epsf.sty instead (`\let\includegraphics\epsffile\input epsf.sty'). [You can also ignore it and get the preformatted manual. But you will not be able to use the MetaPost version in this case.] ######################################################################## Comments, bug reports and improvements are welcome at: Thorsten.Ohl@Physik.TH-Darmstadt.de (aka: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de) New versions can be found in: crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/ohl/feynmf or at CTAN: {ftp.shsu.edu,ftp.tex.ac.uk,ftp.dante.de}: ... macros/latex/contrib/supported/feynmf There are two mailing lists feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de feynmf-bugs@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de both are open for subscription. The former should be very low volume and carry only important announcements. The latter can serve as a more general discussion forum. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de and NOT to the lists itself. The following commands (on a line in the body of the mail, not in the subject) are useful: `subscribe feynmf-announce', `unsubscribe feynmf-bugs', `help', etc. ######################################################################## NEWS for Version 1.0 o separate namespace for vertices: prepending double underscores. (This is an incompatible change, because arguments of vloc and vpath have to be changed in applications. Sorry!) o color! (for MetaPost only) o `width' option for arcs. o \fmfkeep and \fmfreuse o adapt to up-to-date graphics.sty o find camouflaged .log files on VMS (thanks, Scott!) o fmfchar(*) -> fmfgraph(*) (old names still work as aliases) o fmfsubgraph environment for graphs in graphs From fqgouvea@COLBY.EDU Mon May 8 10:19:01 1995 Date: 06 May 1995 09:18:03 -0700 From: Fernando Q. Gouvea Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: How to use oldstyle numbers in LaTeX2e? **** On Thu, 4 May 1995 13:11:55 +0100, Robin Fairbarns said: > As a small exercise, I've produced an oldstyle package and have just > installed it on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/oldstyle > It defines three commands, \oldstyle (an old-style selector for oldstyle > numbers), \textos and \mathos. To do this, you need two files, > oldstyle.sty and Ucmm.fd (both generated from oldstyle.dtx by > oldstyle.ins). Does it provide an easy way to change all numerals in text (not math) to oldstyle? That's usually what I want to do, and typing \oldstyle all the time gets, um, old. > I haven't addressed the issue of switching from the cm font sets, since > fontinst doesn't yet generate the `7d' stuff (which is today's latest > greatest fontname marker for the oldstyle numerals). The numerals are > available in Adobe Expert encoded fonts, but I've never seen them used in > TeX. I've done it several times, using fontinst to build virtual fonts which include the oldstyle numerals as the "normal" numerals for certain fonts. (Of course, this makes lining figures accessible only in math mode, which is fine with me.) One could also put the lining figures into the small caps font for the cases when they're needed. -- ========================================================== Fernando Q. Gouvea fqgouvea@colby.edu Dept. of Math & CS Colby College "Trying to understand Newton without calculus is not like trying to understand Sophocles without Greek, it is like trying to understand Sophocles without words."--James Bullock From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 9 21:26:55 1995 Date: 09 May 1995 23:11:54 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: wrapfig.sty update Donald Arseneau writes: > I recently uploaded a new version of wrapfig.sty. > > Could it be moved to: > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/wrapfig.sty > and the current: > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/wrapfig.sty > converted to a link (or deleted if that is your policy). I've done the necessary (this is, of course, at SHSU). The link will appear in due course, and the file will propagate ditto. Note that we don't delete things in latex209 except at the explicit request of the author. Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) From mlpiotro@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de Thu May 11 14:08:35 1995 Date: 11 May 1995 10:37:42 +0200 (MESZ) From: Michael Piotrowski Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: ANNOUNCING mapcodes 1.04 I just uploaded the new version of mapcodes (1.04) to ftp.dante.de; hopefully it will be available soon at all CTAN hosts and their mirrors in /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/mapcodes, where it will replace the old version (1.01). mapcodes is a LaTeX2e macro package for the input of 8bit-characters in various encoding, similar to the inputenc package included in the LaTeX2e distribution. However, mapcodes also works in the tabbing environment and offers more translation tables. It's also older than inputenc and so perhaps somewhat more mature ;-) mapcodes 1.04 is also available via anonymous ftp from sol.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de. -- Eat your cereal with a fork | Michael Piotrowski and do your homework in the dark. | mlpiotro@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de ---Happy Harry Hardon | mlpiotro@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon May 15 13:56:16 1995 Date: 15 May 1995 17:18:46 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk Subject: Martin Ward: CTAN Submission (`program') Martin Ward writes: I have uploaded an update of my program.sty file (for typesetting programs and algorithms) to /incoming/program.tar.gz on ftp.tex.ac.uk. The latest version is 3.3.3. It should replace the files in directory: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/program Original README: Here's a copy of my LaTeX2e style file for typesetting programs and algorithms in my favourite style without having to type in endless tabbing commands. Each line is set in math mode so all the indentation and spacing is done automatically. The notation |variable_name| can be used within normal text, maths expressions or programs to indicate a variable name. Use \origbar to get a normal | symbol in a program. The commands \A, \B, \R, \T and \Z typeset the corresponding bold letter with the next object as a substript (eg \S1 typesets {\bf S$_1$} etc). They now cope with primes as well, (eg \S'''). The program.sty file can be easily edited to reflect your favoured style. See the program-demo.tex file for examples. The file should work with or without AMSLaTeX and the new font selection scheme. I have duly installed the stuff as requested; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites soon. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 04:42:30 1995 Date: 17 May 1995 09:30:27 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Lohaus , Holger Horst Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Lohaus writes: > > I have uploaded "texed16a.zip" to ftp.dante.de. > It includes Version 1.6a of TeX-Eddi, a development > environment for TeX on PC's. > > It's in german and you will find a list with the update history > and the features of the programm at the and of that message. > > I'm Sorry, but i don't know the CTAN directory structure, so > i can't tell you were exactly to put the file. > I suggest a directory somewhere after something like > /tex/systems/pc or > systems/pc/tex ... I installed it in systems/msdos/tex-eddi where version 1.5 is already sitting -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 20:46:22 1995 Date: 17 May 1995 13:36:23 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission: misc. MetaPost macros vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes: > [ I'm not sure if this announcement ever made it to ctan@shsu.edu, but > I've realized that I mixed up the upload anyhow. Contrary to what > is stated below, the files are scattered in the /incoming directory > at ftp.dante.de. The directory /incoming/mp-misc remained empty. ] > > As far as I know this CTAN upload constitutes a ``first'' in that > it is the first upload of contributed MetaPost macros. It would > be nice if this might turn out to be the start of a collection of > general-purpose MetaPost and Metafont macros. > > Below is a list of files and a short description of their purpose. > Each of these files contains a standardized file header including > an abstract that describes the macros in more detail. Since most > of these files are just small hacks, I didn't bother to write more > extensive documentation. > > closefrm.mp - This file defines a ``closefrom'' macro that operates by > repeatedly reading from a previoulsly opened ``readfrom'' > file until reaching EOF, which has the side effect of > closing the file, as far as I understand the WEB code. > Using this macro will be very inefficient, but it might > help to avoid running out of files in small MetaPost > implementations. > > testeq.mp - This file defines a general equality test macro based > on code from Appendix D of The METAFONTbook, but adapted > slightly for MetaPost. Unfortunately, it is no longer > fully general since MetaPost lacks some bitmap operations > that are available only in METAFONT. However, these > macros might still be useful if you want to test for > the equality of paths. > > gpdata.mp - This file modifies the scanning routines of the MetaPost > graph.mp package to allow comment lines starting with > `#' in data files similar to the conventions of Gnuplot. > Users should be careful about not leaving extra blank > lines before or after comment lines since blank lines > will still be interpreted as the end of a data set. > > interpol.mp - This file modifies the path constructing routines of the > MetaPost graph.mp package to produce smooth curves instead > of polygons when the numeric quantity ``interpolating'' > is set to a postive value. Users should be aware that > using this feature may lead to distortions if their data > isn't suitable for this purpose. > > > I've uploaded all these files to ftp.dante.de into /incoming/mp-misc. > I suggest to install them on CTAN in the directory > > /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/misc, > > thereby allowing for other contributed MetaPost macro packages that > might be installed elsewhere below .../metapost/contrib/macros. > > > Happy MetaPosting! > > Ulrik Vieth -- 1995/05/08 Installed as suggested. Thanks For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 16:59:24 1995 Date: 17 May 1995 13:37:59 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, kb@cs.umb.edu, te@informatik.uni-hannover.de, vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission: MetaPost for web2c/kpathsea vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de writes: > I've uploaded a modified and reorganized distribution of MetaPost 0.63, > adapted to work with web2c-6.1 and kpathsea-2.6. It is actually based > on teTeX-0.3 (which is basically nothing else than web2c-6.1 with patches > for kpathsea-2.6 and other minor bug-fixes already included). It should > also work with native web2c-6.1 installations using kpathsea-2.6. > > It is hoped that this distribution will serve as an intermediate solution > until MetaPost can be fully integrated into the next version of web2c. > This distribution has been successfully tested on several platforms > including Linux, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX (reportedly) and possibly others. > > > This distribution consists of the the following files: > > README.web2c-mp - installation instructions and addtional > information about this distribution. > > web2c-mp-lib.tar.gz - the MetaPost input files and documentation, > reorganized to fit into the texmf tree, > > web2c-mp-src.tar.gz - the modified MetaPost sources, reorganized > to fit into the web2c source tree, > > web2c-mp-web2c.patch - patches to web2c and kpathsea routines > for installations based on web2c-6.1 > patched for kpathsea-2.6. > > web2c-mp-teTeX.patch - patches to web2c and kpathsea routines > for installations based on teTeX-0.3. > > To compile MetaPost and its utility programs, you'll need the modified > MetaPost sources, the web2c and kpathsea sources, and one of the two > patch files listed above, depending on which installation you're using. > Detailed instructions can be found in the file README.web2c-mp. > > > I've uploaded all these files to ftp.dante.de into /incoming/web2c-mp. > I suggest to install them on CTAN in the directory > > /tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/systems/web2c. > > Alternatively, they might also be placed in /tex-archive/systems/web2c, > but this will probably cause complications with the automatic mirroring > from the original web2c distribution site. Maintainers of web2c-based > TeX distributions are welcome to include this MetaPost implementation > in their distribution if they like. > > > Happy MetaPosting! > > Ulrik Vieth -- 1995/05/08 > Installed as suggested. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 17 09:17:59 1995 Date: 17 May 1995 13:49:31 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Andreas Scherer Subject: Re: CTAN submission Andreas Scherer writes: > I've uploaded a new contribution to the CTAN collection at > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/AmiWeb2C/AmiWeb2C.lha > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/AmiWeb2C/AmiWeb2C.readme > > containing a complete set of binaries for TeX 3.14159, MetaFont 2.718, > MetaPost 0.63, and BibTeX 0.99c, as well as the associated utilities, > suitable for the Commodore Amiga (both 68000 and 68020 processors are > specifically supported). The Amiga port is based on Karl Berry's Web2C > system (version 6.1) and works with KPathSea 1.6. > > Also included are the system-dependent changes to the Web2C system and > some other text files with scripts and configurations. Expressly excluded > are commonly available files like MetaFont sources, TeX macros, and BibTeX > styles, to keep the archive as small as possible. The installation is > intended to work according to the new `TeX Directory Structure' proposed > in draft 0.71 by the TUG-TWG. > > To make AmiWeb2C available to the Amiga TeX users, I'd suggest installation > of both the archive and the introductory readme file in the directory > > CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/amiga/AmiWeb2C > > Although a similar archive has been release to the so-called `AmiNet' in > April, availability on the canonical TeX server(s) would be appreciated. Thanks, I installed the files in systems/amiga/amiweb2c For the CTAN team From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed May 17 14:31:35 1995 Date: 17 May 1995 18:03:48 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Announcement: wnri fonts by T. Ridgeway now on CTAN The Washington Romanised Indic (wnri) fonts by Thomas Ridgeway are now available form the CTAN archives in tex-archive/fonts/wnri. They contain all the special latin letters needed in transliteration of Sanskrit, Hindi, and other indic languages. Bundled with the wnri fonts are wnps (Puget Salish) with many special letters for Salishan and other native american languages, and wngb (Gerald Barnett) with special letters for old english. The fonts used to be available form blackbox.hacc.u.washinton.edu, which was unfortunately shut down some month ago. --J"org Knappen. From matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se Mon May 22 16:01:43 1995 Date: 22 May 1995 20:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: ANNOUNCE: A new version of `deleq' at CTAN Friends, A new version (4.2) of the LaTeX package `deleq' is now avaliable at CTAN. This package helps in using partially numbered equations (3a, 3b, ...) and also provides commands and environments for repeated use of equation numbers. The new version differs from the previous version in that it is now possible to "recycle" equation numbers also in `eqnarray'-like environments, and that reference to an `eqnarray'-like environment with partially numbered equations (3a, 3b, 3c...) can be referenced to as a whole with its main equation number (`3' in this case). (Also, some `clean up' of the code has been done.) The package consists of two files: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/deleq.dtx /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/deleq.ins There is also a short read-me-file in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/00readme.dlq mats d. mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * The Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * Lab. for Chemical Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 From matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se Mon May 22 16:14:16 1995 Date: 22 May 1995 20:38:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: ANNOUNCE: A new version of `vrsion' at CTAN Friends, There is now a new version of my LaTeX 2e package "vrsion" avaliable at CTAN. The package consists of two files: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/vrsion.dtx /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/vrsion.ins and there is also a short read-me file in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion/00readme.vrs The "vrsion" package provides commands for giving your document a version number automatically. (It is the .dvi file which is numbered.) To find out more about the package, see the documentation in "vrsion.dtx". In this new version of "vrsion", 0.2, a bug inserting un-wanted spaces has been removed. This package was called "version" in the previous release. The reason for changing names is to minimize the risk for confusion with the LaTeX 2.09 package "version" by Stephen Bellatoni. I apologize for any inconvenience this change of names may have caused the LaTeX community. No command names within the package have been changed. mats d. mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * The Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * Lab. for Chemical Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 23 12:00:34 1995 Date: 23 May 1995 11:28:42 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN The issue arises sometimes of whether everything on CTAN is freely distributable, and whether it is "legal" to sell (for instance) a CD with all the material on. It is quite clear that some authors *do* have objections to their stuff appearing on a CD (at least without their permission). Therefore, I'd like to compile a register of those packages whose authors put any restrictions on distribution or use. If you have something which is on CTAN, and have any conditions at all attached to your work, can you mail me with a brief paragraph explaining the conditions of use? The simple reference to (eg) the GNU conditions, or shareware conditions, will do for many people. Yes, I know we should have been recording this all along, but flesh is weak Sebastian Rahtz UK CTAN From kris@diku.dk Tue May 23 21:04:04 1995 Date: 23 May 1995 22:33:41 +0200 From: Kristoffer H. Rose Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Ross_Moore Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN Dear Sebastian Rahtz, Xy-pic (macros/generic/diagrams/xypic) is under GNU CopyLeft (GPL). Cheers, -- Kristoffer Høgsbro ROSE DIKU, Universitetsparken 1, 2100 København Ø, DANMARK Phones: +45 35321400, direct: +45 35321420, fax: +45 35321401 World Wide Web From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 24 05:25:29 1995 Date: 24 May 1995 09:09:02 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: calling authors of packages on CTAN thanks, recorded s From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Wed May 24 16:53:50 1995 Date: 24 May 1995 14:24:56 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: calling authors of packages on CTAN Sebastian> Therefore, I'd like to compile a register of those packages Sebastian> whose authors put any restrictions on distribution or use. feynmf and mcite (both in macros/latex/contrib/supported) are under the GNU General Public License. Sebastian> Yes, I know we should have been recording this all along, Sebastian> but flesh is weak While we're at it: how about a little descriptive record for all packages. If there is no file in the package with a verbose name, `quote site index' will be useless. [I'm cheating in the case of feynmf by adding a bogus file `Feynman.Diagrams' ...] I know that such records are hard to keep upto date. But maybe asking the authors to include a small description from which the records can be generated automatically would help. The Linux Software Map (LSM) would be starting point. Cheers, -Thorsten /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 26 06:30:45 1995 Date: 26 May 1995 10:15:52 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: New TeX distribution from Knuth I have just installed here (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) Knuth's 1995 TeX distribution (tex version 3.14159, mf version 2.718, and any related programs). This covers all of the directory tree from tex-archive/systems/knuth, with the exception of the new cm distributions. Knuth has made some changes to cm that necessitate me rebuilding all of the .pk files that CTAN holds. This may not be complete today (I do have other work to do ;-) The CTAN archives no longer mirror from labrea, since the new version of TeX is only so far present in the tex alpha directory there (there is no current schedule for installing the new distribution in its `proper' place in labrea's directory structure). Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 27 23:20:08 1995 Date: 28 May 1995 01:17:51 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: texhax@tex.ac.uk, info-tex@shsu.edu, tex-archive@math.utah.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de Subject: test release of new PostScript font metrics Over the last 9 months, a group of people have been working on a revamp of TeX font metrics for PostScript fonts. We are now ready (finally!) to release this, together with a new release of the PSNFSS package for LaTeX2e, and a new version of the Berry fontnaming scheme. The maintainers of PSNFSS, fontinst, web2c, and dvips all urge you to start using this new setup, so that all the bothersome variants can be abolished by the end of the year. The entire distribution is on the CTAN hosts in fonts/psfonts.beta. Its big - don't pull all the files on spec! Get what you need. Prepackaged sets for Textures users will be made available very shortly. These files will replace both the LaTeX PSNFSS (currently on CTAN in fonts/metrics) and the font metrics distributed with dvips. Both of these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork encoding. However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus making previewing painful (and wasting disk space). Now, everything uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or tools/8r.etx). This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied with a Type 1 font. Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k), Y&Y's drivers, OzTeX, Textures etc. We are still contemplating whether the base encoding should be the current one (mostly compatible with Windows), the texnansi encoding promulgated by Y&Y (see tools/texnansi.vec), or something else. Comments are welcome. Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new fonts. For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the interword spacing has been changed. For the dvips fonts, the positions of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the same position in every font). Therefore, the font checksums are different. The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged. The new fonts (mostly) have new names! You can get the new fontname distribution from ftp.cs.umb.edu:private/tex/fontname-*.tar.gz or in the tools/ subdirectory of this distribution. This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no type1's). Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and normal variants, where applicable. All fonts have ligatures and kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be used for real typesetting. An experimental support is provided in PSNFSS for this. We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other utilities). Both required changes, which will be merged into the next releases. See the tools/ directory if you want to reconstruct the work. The changes to fontinst are extensive, and if you are not confident you understand them, please wait until the author finds time to merge them into a complete new release later this year. ***************************************** Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry. Chief Tester and Bugfinder: Constantin Kahn. Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay, Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley. Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu. (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to join the list.) Sebastian Rahtz May 1995 From gaulle@idris.fr Tue May 30 06:09:38 1995 Date: 29 May 1995 09:51:09 +0200 From: Bernard GAULLE Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: calling authors of packages on CTAN Here is my copyright for the french package. The second part is in English. --bg % Copyright Gaulle-GUTenberg 1992-1993-1994-1995 % ============================================== % Ceci est une distribution logicielle de l'association GUTenberg. % Elle regroupe le travail de plusieurs << auteurs >>. L'association % doit elle-meme etre consideree ici comme auteur. % - Vous n'etes AUCUNEMENT autorise a modifier les fichiers marques du % mot << Copyright >>. % - Vous n'etes AUCUNEMENT autorise a faire payer cette distribution ou % l'utilisation de ses fichiers si ce n'est pour un cout reduit de copie. % - La redistribution des fichiers de cette distribution est autorise % sous reserve de fournir a chaque fois des renseignements a jour % concernant l'association GUTenberg dont son adresse exacte. % - Vous n'etes PAS AUTORISE a inclure cette distribution dans un progiciel % qui en reduirait ses possibilites intrinseques ; vous n'avez donc pas % le droit, par exemple, de ne redistribuer qu'une partie des fichiers % d'origine. % - Tous les fichiers de cette distribution sont du domaine publique. % - Aucun virus n'a ete detecte au moment ou ces fichiers furent termines % et prets a la distribution. % - Le code informatique est offert ici dans l'espoir qu'il soit utile et % avec la volonte qu'il soit correct mais aucune garantie ne peut etre % fournie, de quelque ordre que ce soit. Les utilisateurs l'utilisent % entierement a leur propre risque. L'auteur n'admetra et n'acceptera % d'etre lie par un quelconque engagement en cas de manque a gagner, % direct, indirect, immediat, consecutif ou autre, resultant de son % utilisation. % - Vous n'etes PAS AUTORISE a vous substituer a l'autorite de l'auteur % en appliquent des modifications, meme si de votre point de vue, elles % corrigent des deficiences. % Les lois internationales, europeennes (91-255) et francaises (94-361) % sont applicables. % % Copyright Gaulle-GUTenberg 1992-1993-1994-1995: % ============================================== % This is a distribution of software by the GUTenberg association. % It collects works of different "authors". The association must be % considered here as an author. % - You are NOT ALLOWED to change anyway all files marked % with "Copyright". % - You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of % these files except for a nominal charge for copying etc. % - Redistribution of these unchanged files is allowed provided that % up to date informations about the GUTenberg association including % addresses are distributed in the same package. % - You are NOT ALLOWED to include these files in a package/software in % a way that will reduce its capabilities or features; this doesn't allow % you, for example, to redistribute only few parts of the whole original % files. % - All the files included in the distribution are in public domain % and available for free. % - There was no virus at the time these files were completed for % distribution. % - This computer code is offered in hopes that it will be found useful, % and in the belief that it is correct, but it is offered without any % warranty of any kind, including warranty of fitness for any purpose. % Users of this code do so entirely at their own risk. The author neither % admits nor accepts any liability for any loss, direct, indirect, % consequential, incidental, or otherwise, resulting from the use of this % computer code. % - You are NOT ALLOWED to substitute author's authority by applying % modifications even, in your point of view, they correct deficiences. % International, European (91-255) and French (94-361) laws apply. %..........................................................................V1.5 %% %% checksum = "21902 67 600 3978" %% %.............................................................................. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed May 31 06:45:31 1995 Date: 31 May 1995 11:18:37 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Herman Haverkort Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Herman Haverkort writes: > A file hh.zip has been uploaded to the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de. The file contains a set of LaTeX2e macro package files, > which I presented in the last week MAPS (the NTG (Dutch LUG) magazine). > In the MAPS articles I promised my readers that I would try to submit > the package files and manuals to CTAN. I suggest placing my submission in > the /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported directory. Done, in a subdirectory called hh. Thanks. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf -------------------- > The following is an abstract from the README file enclosed in hh.zip: > > ========================================================================= > This file provides information about: > - Contents > - Conditions of use - `Registration' > - Support, Bug-Reports > > Contents > -------- > > HHCOUNT.STY > > hhcount provides some macros to display numbers in various ways. > For example: numbers could be formatted as roman numbers, dice or > scores. Some of the display macros act context dependent: in headings > they yield other results than in the midst of a paragraph or in an > index. On top of these `simple' formatting macros, hhcount > provides macros which combine several `simple' formatting macros > to format the values of composite counters. Besides hhcount > offers the possibility to have composite counters of arbitrary > structure appear in the index. > > The hhcount package is not stable yet: it is too young. The simple > counter formatting macros will probably not change much anymore, > although their output may be smoothed a little. However, > the more complex macros may still be reorganized a lot. > > A manual is provided in HHCOUNT.TEX > > > HHFLXBOX.STY > > hhflxbox contains a number of boxing macros. The kernel consists of > \iframe, which boxes things and sets self-scaling frames around, and > \sframe, which sets more complex self-scaling and -stretching frames. > Besides hhflxbox provides the encircling macros \ringbox, \bellybox > and \outringbox (which use \iframe), the macros \sepbox and > \separbox, which set empty space around boxes, and \broadbox, which > boxes its argument in a \vbox of which the width is the line width > minus some specified value. Thus \broadbox facilitates the construction > of frames which stretch to line width. > > A manual is provided in HHFLXBOX.TEX > > > HHMUF.STY > > The hhmuf package contains the multinote system, which provides > an alternative to the usual footnote system. hhmuf's multinotes can be > used in forbidden modes and can be repeated easily. When repeating > multinotes, the hhmuf macros make sure the same marker is used throughout, > while preventing repeated notes from being typeset twice on the same > page. A manual is provided in HHMUF.TEX > > > HHPARMRK.STY > > hhparmrk contains macros to mark paragraphs by putting signs next to > them. The signs can be mathematical delimiter symbols, or three-part signs > built of boxes. A manual is provided in HHPARMRK.TEX > > > Conditions of Use - `Registration' > ---------------------------------- > > If you use all or some of the hh packages and find them useful, please > report it to me. I will not charge you anything; I just would like to > get some idea of the use of my packages. Are they used heavily or hardly > at all? > > You are not allowed to take money for the distribution or use of either > this file or a changed version, except for a nominal charge for copying > etc. > > > History and Future, Support, Bug-Reports > ---------------------------------------- > > I do not actively look for bugs and deficiencies to be fixed > anymore; I pay attention to them only when I encounter them in practice or > when they are reported to me. So if you encounter failures, deficiencies or > difficulties when using my packages, do not wait for them to be fixed, > but report your problems to me and I will pay attention to them, if I have > got the time to do so. Suggestions for improvements or extensions are > also welcome. > > ========================================================================== From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun 1 16:53:54 1995 Date: 31 May 1995 17:33:00 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: os2@dante.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission thomas koch uploaded a port of web2c-6.1 for OS/2, which was done by Ralp Schleicher (rs@purple.in-ulm.de) to ftp.dante.de. It's now in /tex-archive/systems/os2/web2c-6.1 > -------------------------some of the README follows------------------- > > > 1 Copying conditions > ===================== > > WEB2C/2 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) > any later version. > > WEB2C/2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License > for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along > with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., > 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > > > 2 System requirements > ====================== > > The binary release of WEB2C/2 (see the `binary' subdirectory) requires > OS/2 2.0 or any later version. The release was compiled with emx 0.9a > under OS/2 2.1 with optimization enabled for an i486 CPU. Thus, you > have to install the emx runtime environment if you don't have it > already. > > WEB2C/2 contains only the programs for TeX, METAFONT and friends. There > are no fonts, TeX macros or pre-compiled format and base files. WEB2C/2 > is intended as a drop-in replacement for your current binaries. > > Have a look at `/ctan/systems/web2c/lib-.tar.gz' if you have no > TeX infrastructure on your disk. > > > 3 User requirements > ==================== > > WEB2C/2 is no ready-to-run distribution for the reasons pointed out in > the previous section. I think that this is the right way. The only > non-portable files of a TeX system are the executables, the pool, format > and base files. WEB2C/2 offers you pre-compiled executables, pool files > and `Makefile' files for building formats and bases. Thus, you have all > you need for making TeX work. > > So, get the packages *you* want to use, read the documentation coming > along with them, configure and install them, learn for what all these > files are good for and keep your system up-to-date yourself. Don't wait > for someone else doing it for you. > > You should also read the manual pages before you ask `how'. That's why > they were written. There is the German phrase `Lesen bildet' which > means `reading trains' in English -- 'nough said. > > > 4 Additional features > ====================== > > WEB2C/2 is as close to the original as possible (including support for > symbolic links -- you read right) but there are some enhancements due to > the differences between UN*X and OS/2: > > * Backslashes as well as normal slashes may be used as directory > separators in environment variables. > > * Environment variables may be referenced as `%FOO%' beside the two > UN*X styles `$FOO' and `${FOO}'. > > * TeX and BibTeX can load a character translation table at runtime. > See `$TEXMFROOT/keymaps/README' for details. > From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 31 23:27:24 1995 Date: 01 Jun 1995 00:07:49 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: kcb@hss.caltech.edu Subject: Re: Upload of fn2end.sty Kim C. Border writes: > I have uploaded the LaTeX 2e package > > fn2end.sty > > It is yet another style that converts footnotes to endnotes, but > has some twists. Blame Neal Beck , who > suggested posting it. > > LaTeXable documentation is at the end after \endinput > > It should move to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc I have installed the package as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 2 01:34:30 1995 Date: 01 Jun 1995 17:30:43 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, texhax@tex.ac.uk Subject: Installation of Knuth's 1995 release I have now completed the installation of Knuth's 1995 release on CTAN (I announced the interim installation of all but the fonts a while back). The installation has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs in fairly short order (though I have little evidence that propagation to ftp.shsu.edu is reliable just now). Barbara Beeton has supplied the following announcement text: =========================================================================== Date: 08 Mar 1995 18:22:30 -0800 --------- ANNOUNCING THE 1995 UPDATE TO TeX, METAFONT, and FRIENDS -------- I've just gone through all accumulated correspondence and made appropriate changes to the master TeX sources on my home computer. (I plan to do this again in February of 1998, 2002, 2007, etc.!) My files are grouped in two main subdirectories, "dist" and "local"; the former consists of the master WEB, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, TeXware, and MFware sources, while the latter consists of my own change files and supplementary macros and fonts that other people might like to look at. These files fit into similarly named parts of the big TeX archive tree; they should replace their former counterparts. I don't know how to do this myself, not even at labrea, so I am hoping that all current maintainers of TeXnicalities will be alerted to the existence of this new material. I've checked everything pretty carefully, so I don't think there's any need to wait until independent vetting has been done. TeX Version 3.14159 has four bug fixes, two of which are significant: 1) fontmemsize can vary between formats dumped by INITEX and loaded by VIRTEX --- this problem had already been fixed by all the major implementations 2) math kerns disappear again at line breaks, as they should --- this problem arose by mistake in version 3.1415. 3) overflow won't occur when converting huge stretch/shrink amounts from real to integer --- again, implementors had fixed this 4) you can have more than 32K font parameters without crashing TeX (nobody ever wanted so many, but a crash is a crash) METAFONT Version 2.718 has only one bug fix, but it corrects a problem in the linear-equation-solving engine that lost significant figures and caused spurious overflows; the bug had been present since version 0.1. I've written a letter to Barbara Beeton about this, and she can send you a copy if you need more information. The bug had only microscopic effect on Computer Modern fonts. Ten changes were made to the Computer Modern fonts, affecting nine of the master source files, but the changes are rather minor and nearly invisible to the eye. (Again they help reduce the chance of overflow.) I have been unhappy to see so many people still using the pre-1992 CM fonts, because I made MAJOR important improvements in that year, and I hate to run across the obsolete symbols in preprints that people send me! Anybody who hasn't installed CM fonts since 1991 should surely change now; and please help stamp out all copies of the old fonts that you see installed anywhere. (The lowercase delta is the main giveaway --- the new shape is vastly better than the old. Also arrows are now darker, and several calligraphic caps are improved, etc etc; the TFM files did not change, but the images got lots better.) On the other hand, if you do have the 1993-or-later version of the fonts, there's no need to replace old bitmaps. Just replace the old source files, and regenerate fonts from them at your leisure. There are new versions of DVItype (3.5), PLtoTF (3.5), and VPtoVF (1.4). DVItype now checks the DVI file more carefully in material that is skipped over (e.g., between pages). Plain TeX format, version 3.14159, has eight changes, but only the change to \bmod has a substantial probability of affecting existing .tex files. Accents \b and \d have gotten better in four ways. Barbara Beeton will be distributing reward checks to 20 people who were first to report significant errors in Volumes A--E. The big "sweepstakes" winners this year were Chris Thompson (Cambridge) and Bogus{\l}aw Jackowski (Gdansk), who received the maximum $327.68 reward for pointing out longstanding bugs in TeX and METAFONT, respectively. All sources are frozen and no future changes will be made unless a new, serious and easily fixable error is reported. The threshold for calling something a feature rather than a bug is rising exponentially and may be almost infinitely high when I do this exercise again in 1998! However, I do still promise to maintain these programs as long as I am able. Where can you find the new sources? At labrea.stanford.edu, in file ~ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz (slightly less than 3MB). Thanks to all of you for continued high quality support. -- Don Knuth 3/8/95 ============================================================================= The update I have performed started from the file Knuth mentions, labrea.stanford.edu:ftp/alpha/tex95.tar.gz; I have only re-installed things that have changed (as far as possible). Of particular import is what I have done with the CM font changes. We have on the archive two directories which purport to hold CM sources -- systems/knuth/cm and fonts/cm/mf systems/knuth/cm has almost nothing in it here, and what it does hold is identical to the sources in fonts/cm/mf I have therefore updated fonts/cm/mf, and not touched systems/knuth/lib All other directories in Knuth's tar file are mapped to those on CTAN by the transformations ./dist/* -> systems/knuth/*, ./local/* -> systems/knuth/local/* I have also rebuilt all of the files in fonts/cm/pk; I've included a small README in that directory (not least to ensure that the next person who has to do this job doesn't have to run around in such small circles ;-). I haven't regenerated the contents of fonts/cm/gf, and have deleted the files that were there; that directory contained a README saying that the files weren't there, and this seemed an appropriate moment to align that statement with reality. The README in fonts/cm/pk says: ======================================================================== I have included in this directory what I believe to be the right sort of thing to match what was there already. This is not to say that I'm terribly proud of it, but it seems about right. The pk300 fonts were generated using CanonCX mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf The pk300w fonts were generated using RicohFortyEighty mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf The pk240 fonts were generated using CanonLBPTen mode from Karl Berry's modes.mf (this differs from the "CanonLBP" used in the previous version in name only). The pk120 fonts were generated with the same parameters as were used in the previous version, though nothing with those parameters exists in Karl Berry's modes.mf; by analogy with the previous version, I've called this mode OneTwoZero. I was not terribly surprised that several files gave me metafont errors with this mode; the most (apparently) serious were cmss12 and cmssi12, though several of the smaller-sized fonts had strange paths of one sort or another. I've included a slightly hacked copy of a Makefile which used to be in the directory ../gf300; I had to hack it because the original neither reflected the current `best' thinking about the way TeX systems should be organised, nor the way they're organised on our discs (which is different for hysterical raisins). ======================================================================== I believe that I've completed the job I undertook, but if anyone spots problems with my work, they are welcome to get in touch with me by mail (there's little point in taxing the newsgroups with it unless there are problems with my work that are serious enough to constitute major pitfalls that might bother other people). Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 05:45:06 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 12:44:42 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Christina Thiele Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-) Christina Thiele writes (in her ineffable way ;-): > I think I'm done. I have cold fingers -- they always get this way when > I keyboard a lot ... and it's time to find some supper around here... > > I've sent you (or hope I've sent you!) the following: > > a. TTN 3,2: ttn3n2.tex, ttn3n2.sty > > b. TTN 3,3: ttn3n3.tex, ttn3n3.sty > > c. TTN 3,4: ttn3n4.tex, ttn3n4.sty The above three (six?) are now in tex-archive/usergrps/tug/ttn. They all compile, here, either with current LaTeX2e (1994/12/01 pl3) or with LaTeX2.09. ttn3n2 requires DC fonts, but includes isntructions about how to avoid the requirement: I haven't tried out the said instructions. > d. usergrps.tex > > e. readme.asc for /tug > > f. tug95-readme.asc for /tug95 > > I've now prepared the scene for mayhem and chaos in your life ... so > I'll just sort of saunter off into the distance (= the back of the > house) and see if there's anything interesting to eat ;-) I've duly installed that lot and done various other minor tidies of the tex-archive/usergrps/tug subtree. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 05:42:17 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 13:04:57 +0100 From: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Is the Tibetan language available for LaTeX? In article <1995Jun1.110712.74669@ucl.ac.uk>, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: >George.Warr@anu.edu.au (George Warr) writes: >>Is the Tibetan language available for LaTeX? > >Yes. See ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology where it can be found >as a zip file with some name like latex-tibetan.zip. I've discussed this stuff with Dominik, and he has agreed that we may install it on CTAN. I have therefore expanded the .zip file and installed its contents as tex-archive/language/tibetan (at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate to the other sites when the winds blow in the right direction). Dominik remarks: > It is in fact a work in progress which got stuck a couple of years > ago. Attempts to contact the developers result in failure. But the > system does work, and one can produce Tibetan text, even in its > present form. Robin From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 06:20:15 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 14:02:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Christina Thiele Cc: Robin Fairbairns , ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-) Further to my post about copies of TTN vol 3, Christina writes: > Robin Fairbairns writes: > > > > Christina Thiele writes (in her ineffable way ;-): > > > > > I think I'm done. I have cold fingers -- they always get this way when > > > I keyboard a lot ... and it's time to find some supper around here... > > > > > > I've sent you (or hope I've sent you!) the following: > > > > > > a. TTN 3,2: ttn3n2.tex, ttn3n2.sty > > > > > > b. TTN 3,3: ttn3n3.tex, ttn3n3.sty > > > > > > c. TTN 3,4: ttn3n4.tex, ttn3n4.sty > > > > The above three (six?) are now in tex-archive/usergrps/tug/ttn. They > > Sorry -- my oversight. TTN issues don't go into /tug; they go into > > tex-archive/digests/ttn > > They're linked with the /tug subdirectory, but properly reside over > under /digests. I didn't think to make that clear -- sorry ... ;-( > > > all compile, here, either with current LaTeX2e (1994/12/01 pl3) or > > with LaTeX2.09. ttn3n2 requires DC fonts, but includes isntructions > > Well, this is good news! I really haven't had anyone test them under > the 2e regime. Glad to hear it's ok. > > What I'd wanted with TTN 3,2 was that at least the .ps file should > have been compiled with the DC fonts, so that anyone who just picks up > the PostScript file will in fact get the `right' (= optimal) output. > The people who don't have them would then have to use the .tex file > .. which I guess means that putting up a .dvi file of TTN 3,2 is not > terribly useful ... is it? > > > about how to avoid the requirement: I haven't tried out the said > > instructions. > > > > > d. usergrps.tex > > > > > > e. readme.asc for /tug > > > > > > f. tug95-readme.asc for /tug95 > > > > > > I've now prepared the scene for mayhem and chaos in your life ... so > > > I'll just sort of saunter off into the distance (= the back of the > > > house) and see if there's anything interesting to eat ;-) > > > > I've duly installed that lot and done various other minor tidies of > > the tex-archive/usergrps/tug subtree. > > > > Robin Fairbairns > > > > For the CTAN team > > > > And thank *you*! > > Ch. > From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 05:45:03 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 14:08:30 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Christina Thiele Cc: Robin Fairbairns , ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: The evening's highlights .. ;-) Further to my post about copies of TTN vol 3 and other things, Christina writes: > What I'd wanted with TTN 3,2 was that at least the .ps file should > have been compiled with the DC fonts, so that anyone who just picks up > the PostScript file will in fact get the `right' (= optimal) output. > The people who don't have them would then have to use the .tex file > .. which I guess means that putting up a .dvi file of TTN 3,2 is not > terribly useful ... is it? I have processed the said file and installed ttn3n2.300.ps Processed for a printer with CanonCX engine ttn3n2.600.ps Processed for a Laserjet 4 These files are in tex-archive/digests/ttn (as well as in tex-archive/ usergrps/tug/ttn, which is linked to it -- sorry for any confusion on this matter in my earlier post). Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) PS - my further apologies for yet another posting from me to this list: these things seem to happen when my arthritis flares ... perhaps I should have stayed at home after all. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 06:22:41 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 17:02:57 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: MusiXTeX installation I have (at last) installed Andreas Egler's latest version of (his path of) MusiXTeX. As I noted in the small hours of this morning in a post to the mailing list, a problem arises because both Andreas and Daniel Taupin are (independently) developing MusiXTeX; I have no wish publicly to step into this situation. I have therefore installed a new README file in the directory, whose content is: ===================================================================== Please note, two of the original authors are working independently on MusiXTeX at present. Daniel Taupin, the originator of MusicTeX, is developing the versions in the series musixtex-T* and musixpk-T* (the latest of which are always also present as musixtex.zip and musixpk.zip). Andreas Egler, who first put MusiXTeX together, is developing the versions in the series musix0* and {600,300}pk0* (these files are only present as .zip archives). I apologise for any confusion this situation may cause some users, but I am not qualified (or willing) to step into any arguments that may exist between the (three or more) earliest workers on MusiXTeX. If users so demand, I could modify the directory structure so that Egler's and Taupin's versions exist on different directories of the archive. Personally I would prefer that the developers restart working together, as my life would become easier, but while we're in the present situation, I will do my best to ensure that everything that may be useful to anyone is available. ===================================================================== The installation was done at ftp.tex.ac.uk; since Andreas Egler's announcement of his version 0.42, he has put a further version (0.43) into my incoming directory, so the files I have installed are: -rw-r--r-- 1 ctan TeX 1064 Jun 02 16:57 README -rw-r--r-- 1 ctan TeX 334522 May 30 17:31 musix043.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ctan TeX 246928 May 26 09:32 300pk042.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ctan TeX 541733 May 30 17:29 600pk042.zip The installation is in the same directory tex-archive/macros/musixtex as are all other musixtex releases at present. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 4 06:12:46 1995 Date: 02 Jun 1995 17:33:35 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz Subject: Petr Olsak: the EAN macro to CTAN Petr Olsak wrote to me as follows: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 12:44:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Petr Olsak To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: the EAN macro to CTAN [...] I want to offer my "little macro" to CTAN archive. The macro converts the EAN (13 digit or 8 digit) code to the barcode using TeX primitive \vrule. I have sent an article about the macro to TUGboat (to Barbara Beeton) and the article was accepted. The macro files, README, 00Description and mf-sources for OCR-b fonts are available on our computer math.feld.cvut.cz in directory pub/olsak/EAN by ftp anonymous. I have copied the mf-sources of OCR-b fonts from CTAN:/fonts/ocr-b (by N. Schwarz) and I have added a little corrections to these mf-sources. I suggest to place the mf-sources to the same directory as ean macros. Therefore, the mf-sources will be twice on CTAN (one original by N. Schwarz and one in ean directory with my corrections). I hope it will do no problems. My idea is to place my macros to directory CTAN:/macros/generic/ean but you can find a better solution. Petr Olsak Department of Mathematics, Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Republic. ------- End of Forwarded Message I have indeed installed Petr's macros in tex-archive/macros/generic The CTAN system depends to some extent on unsolicited contributions of this nature: thanks to Petr for his offer Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 7 15:10:06 1995 Date: 06 Jun 1995 11:47:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Tobias Oetiker: lshort2e Version 2.0 ------- Forwarded Message From: Tobias Oetiker Subject: lshort2e Version 2.0 To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:01:38 +0100 (BST) I have just packaged Version 2.0 of: "The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" [...] - -- ___ ________ __ _ _____ _ __ /__ ___/ / / (_) ____ Phone: +44 116 257-7156 Fax: -7169 __ ____ / / _ \/ _ \/ / ____ Email: oetiker@dmu.ac.uk ___ ___ / / // / // / / ____ Web: http://engelberg.dmu.ac.uk ____ __ /_/\___/|___/_/ ____ SysAdmin @ DMU Leicester, UK _____ ------- End of Forwarded Message I have installed the new version as tex-archive/info/lshort on the archive here. It will propagate to the other CTANs in due course. Robin Fairbairns UK CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 20 21:21:30 1995 Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:19:23 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Johannes Heinecke Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: New Version of my Georgian Font (mxedruli) Johannes Heinecke writes: > I have just uploaded a new version of my Georgian Font, > written in METAFONT. It is now on > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.0.tar.gz > > Please would you be so kind as to put it where the current > version is (tex-archive/fonts/georgian/mxedruli) which becomes > obsolete now. > > The new version has some additional letters used in other > languages but georgian which use the mxedruli alphabet > (ossetic, svan etc), some letters have been redesigned. > further I included a font for headings, (`capitals') as > this alphabet normally does not know capital letters, > the so called `capitals' I included are just letters > with all ascenders and descenders on a same letters. Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jun 23 09:51:24 1995 Date: 19 Jun 1995 14:19:23 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Johannes Heinecke Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: New Version of my Georgian Font (mxedruli) Johannes Heinecke writes: > I have just uploaded a new version of my Georgian Font, > written in METAFONT. It is now on > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.0.tar.gz > > Please would you be so kind as to put it where the current > version is (tex-archive/fonts/georgian/mxedruli) which becomes > obsolete now. > > The new version has some additional letters used in other > languages but georgian which use the mxedruli alphabet > (ossetic, svan etc), some letters have been redesigned. > further I included a font for headings, (`capitals') as > this alphabet normally does not know capital letters, > the so called `capitals' I included are just letters > with all ascenders and descenders on a same letters. Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 20 20:37:55 1995 Date: 20 Jun 1995 16:13:26 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Frank Bennet writes: > I have just uploaded a gzipped .tar archive, camel.tar.z, to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. This is a replacement for the `lexitex' > bibliography package (also by me) that currently resides on > /ctan/tex-archive/latex/macros/contrib/supported/lexitex. > > This is an entirely new package, with a new name and new > features. It should be placed in a new subdirectory, and the > `lexitex' subdirectory should be moved to the `other' branch > of the LaTeX macro tree. > > Please unpack this archive in: > > /ctan/tex-archive/latex/macros/contrib/supported/camel > > This will create one new subdirectory, camel/styles, with one > file in it (law.doc). If anyone comes up with new styles for > this bibliography package, the style code should be placed in the > camel/styles subdirectory. I've installed the package as suggested at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and it should propagate to the other CTANs in due course (it's the big ones that cause the problems...). I've moved lexitex as suggested, too; how long do you (Frank) intend it to last? Robin (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 21 06:33:27 1995 Date: 21 Jun 1995 09:53:04 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: CHAA006@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN submission Phil Taylor writes: > I have up-loaded ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/cropmrks.tex (version 1.5); > this replaces files called `cropmarks.tex' which pre-exist in the CTAN > hierarchy, and which are at version 1.3. The name has been shortened > to allow use within an MS/DOS environment whilst avoiding confusion with > files called `cropmark.tex/.sty' of which I am not the author. I have installed the files as Phil (seems to have) suggested (i.e., I removed all the capitalisation in his original: the file he submitted had a lower-case title). There was a (somewhat gratuitous) copy of cropmarks.tex in macros/latex209/contrib/cropmarks, which I have deleted and replaced with a link to macros/plain/contrib/cropmrks.tex, where it replaces cropmarks.tex Robin Fairbairns From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 21 21:12:04 1995 Date: 21 Jun 1995 13:23:35 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e June 95 release available I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server ftp.dante.de in directories macros/latex/base macros/latex/unpacked macros/latex/packages/tools macros/latex/packages/mfnfss macros/latex/packages/graphics from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. The LaTeX2e apologizes for the three week delay. We thought it better to release a fully documented and tested release than a timely one. For the LaTeX team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jun 21 21:36:58 1995 Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:17:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Denis B. Roegel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available 'Rainer Schoepf' > > I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server > > ftp.dante.de > > in directories > > macros/latex/base Thanks Rainer. I just noticed that a few files don't have the good protections in the base directory at least. Would you mind changing them ? Thanks, Denis From Denis.Roegel@loria.fr Wed Jun 21 21:25:41 1995 Date: 22 Jun 1995 02:20:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Denis B. Roegel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: schoepf@uni-mainz.de, Denis B. Roegel Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available 'Rainer Schoepf' > > I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server > > ftp.dante.de > > in directories > > macros/latex/base Thanks Rainer, I have just noticed that some protections are wrong at least in the base directory. Would you mind changing them ? Thanks in advance, Denis From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun 22 09:27:17 1995 Date: 22 Jun 1995 09:46:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Denis B. Roegel Subject: Re: LaTeX2e June 95 release available Denis B. Roegel writes: > 'Rainer Schoepf' > > > > I've just put the June 95 release of LaTeX2e on the server > > > > ftp.dante.de > > > > in directories > > > > macros/latex/base > > Thanks Rainer, > > I have just noticed that some protections are wrong at least > in the base directory. Would you mind changing them ? Ah sorry. I thought I had checked them all. Anyway, by now the nightly check should has already set them correctly. Rainer From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 23 09:49:05 1995 Date: 22 Jun 1995 12:55:11 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: tobias@dmu.ac.uk Subject: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release I have updated the .dvi and .ps files of the LaTeX2e *guide series (including the new modguide) at ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/macros/latex/doc. I've replaced previous real file of grfguide.ps with a link to the file of that name in macros/latex/packages/grahics The purpose of the doc directory is to enable people who don't (yet) have LaTeX2e to read about its facilities before installing it. A change to the specification of the \DeclareOption command means that a few packages need to be updated. Tobias Oetiker is the first I know of to get around to that (all authors have been notified), and I have installed a new copy of his acronym.dtx in tex-archive/macros/latex/ contrib/supported/acronym here, too. Note that this new version has the statement \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/06/01] since the facilities it employs are new with the new release. These installations should propagate to the other CTANs in due course. Robin Fairbairns Robin (Campaign for Real Radio 3) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK Private page From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 25 11:08:38 1995 Date: 25 Jun 1995 14:58:08 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release the "hyperref" package has also been updated to the June 95 LaTeX standard, since it too was affected by the changes. for those who havent come acros it, this redefines many LaTeX commands to make hypertext references (to the HyperTeX standard). the "labels" package is also updated. this makes typesetting sheets of sticky labels easy both in macros/latex/contrib/supported Sebastian Rahtz From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 25 11:15:09 1995 Date: 25 Jun 1995 15:06:05 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: olsak@math.feld.cvut.cz Subject: afm to afm plus composites > > The program a2ac (Afm To Afm plus Composites) enables to typeset texts by > PostScript fonts in languages where accented letters are used. The font > needn't to include completelly full alphabet of given language; the > presence of self accents (no whole accented characters) is sufficient. The > description files for the {\tt a2ac} program are independent on the > PostScript font encoding and on the typesetting system encoding. The > program may be used for font preparing for any typesetting system, but only > \TeX{} was tested. Program was compiled on operation systems SUN OS, Linux > and on DOS. May be, the program will work in others systems with C > compiler. The C source of program, documentation and UNIX script for easier > font preparation are included. An article about the a2ac program was sent > to TUGboat editor now. This has been installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk and should propagate to other hosts tonight. Its in fonts/utilities/a2ac with thanks to Petr Sebastian Rahtz for CTAN From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 26 06:56:24 1995 Date: 26 Jun 1995 10:45:06 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca Subject: replacement for kuvio diagrams macros Anders Svensson writes: > > This contains an update to my diagram package residing in > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory kuvio and > contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN. > The old files can be blown away. > this has duly been done. thanks, Anders Sebastian Rahtz for CTAN From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Jun 26 10:56:49 1995 Date: 26 Jun 1995 15:00:45 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: New emTeX available now The new emTeX release is now available for anonymous ftp on ftp.dante.de in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex. It will be available soon from the other CTAN servers and mirrors. Eberhard Mattes From john@gagme.wwa.com Mon Jun 26 20:07:39 1995 Date: 26 Jun 1995 09:55:11 -0500 (CDT) From: john@gagme.wwa.com Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX doc, new version of a package, for the 1995/06/01 release > the "hyperref" package has also been updated to the June 95 LaTeX > > the "labels" package is also updated. this makes typesetting > sheets of sticky labels easy > Hello, I use the "labels" package. Is the updated "labels" package still compatible with the June 1994 LaTeX? Like, can I install it and assume it'll work with the June 1994 LaTeX? Thanks! John From Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 27 07:12:58 1995 Date: 27 Jun 1995 09:50:50 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: john@gagme.wwa.com Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: labels compatibility > -- using template mhl.form> > I use the "labels" package. Is the updated "labels" package > still compatible with the June 1994 LaTeX? Like, can I install > it and assume it'll work with the June 1994 LaTeX? Thanks! > i didnt test it per se, but i have no reason to think it wont work; just to reassure people, the change in LaTeX June 95 that needed a few styles to change in an incompatible way was quite obscure. labels *is* much revised, by Grant Gustafson, so check the results before you print out a box of labels sebastian From anne007@cs.vu.nl Sat Jul 1 02:30:28 1995 Date: 28 Jun 1995 11:29:55 +0100 (MET) From: Anne Steegstra Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems? L.S. I've updated to (for myself and not the users...): LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> Now I found (for the time being...) two problems: a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex. I.e. the documentation coming with the AMS package: "packages/amslatex/math". Below follows the output of both the previous version of latex (LaTeX2e <1994/12/01>) and the new one. Maybe someone could try to format amsldoc and see if she/he succeeds (and I fouled up...). b. The format of my index has changed.... With the previous version I got an empty line when going from one chracter entry to the other: jackson, 14 johnson, 12 kleenex, 10 Now I get: jackson, 14 johnson, 12 kleenex, 10 In general it looks quite differently. Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something? Can anyone check the look of her/his layout of the index of an existing document? Greetings and thanks for your attention, Anne Steegstra email: anne007@cs.vu.nl ---- Outputs for "latex2e amsldoc.tex": latex2e amsldoc This is TeX, C Version 3.1t2 (amsldoc.tex LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsldoc.cls Document Class: amsldoc 1995/02/23 v1.2b (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/book.cls Document Class: book 1995/06/19 v1.3e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/leqno.clo) (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/bk10.clo))) (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsmath.sty (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amstext.sty (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsbsy.sty) (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amsopn.sty)) (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/amscd.sty) Writing index file amsldoc.idx (/usr/proj/tex/VU/sharelib/latex2e.new/inputs/OT1cmtt.fd ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ! . ... l.18 \providecommand*{\tp@family} [5]{% ? And this is the output for the previous version: /usr/local/bin/latex2e amsldoc This is TeX, C Version 3.1t2 (amsldoc.tex LaTeX2e <1994/12/01> patch level 1 (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsldoc.cls Document Class: amsldoc 1995/02/23 v1.2b (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/book.cls Document Class: book 1994/12/09 v1.2x Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/leqno.clo) (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/bk10.clo))) (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsmath.sty (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amstext.sty (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsbsy.sty) (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amsopn.sty)) (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/amscd.sty) Writing index file amsldoc.idx (/usr/local/lib/tex/latex2e/inputs/OT1cmtt.fd) (amsldoc.aux) [1] (amsldoc.toc [2] [3]) [4] [5] (interrupted because it just is ok....). From vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Sat Jul 1 01:01:11 1995 Date: 29 Jun 1995 10:19:07 +0200 From: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de. I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release. Specifcally, I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days: 1995/06/23 | 146406 | macros/latex/base/classes.dtx 1995/06/23 | 41810 | macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx 1995/06/27 | 3936 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx 1995/06/27 | 19215 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx 1995/06/23 | 21102 | macros/latex/unpacked/article.cls 1995/06/23 | 23871 | macros/latex/unpacked/book.cls 1995/06/23 | 23898 | macros/latex/unpacked/report.cls Does this indicate that there have been some updates/fixes/patches after the officially announced release dated 1995/06/21 without telling anyone or have these files been touched (perhaps accidentily) for some other reasons? Anyone care to explain? Cheers, Ulrik. P.S. In case that there have been updates without announcing them I would want to protest against this practice. It's simply not fair on the people who have already installed immediately when it was announced (on 1995/06/22). From ashv@Sigma.ICMP.Lviv.UA Sat Jul 1 07:02:24 1995 Date: 01 Jul 1995 10:06:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrij Shvaika Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems? Msg from Anne Steegstra > > L.S. > > I've updated to (for myself and not the users...): > LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> > > Now I found (for the time being...) two problems: > [...] > b. The format of my index has changed.... > With the previous version I got an empty line when going > from one chracter entry to the other: > jackson, 14 > johnson, 12 > > kleenex, 10 > Now I get: > jackson, 14 johnson, 12 > > kleenex, 10 > > In general it looks quite differently. > Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something? > Can anyone check the look of her/his layout > of the index of an existing document? > I had the same problem befor I correct the path for index style files (*.ist). For EmTeX, which I use, it is IDXSTYLE directory, not TEXINPUT. Andrij ================================================================== Dr. Andrij M. Shvaika | ashv@icmp.lviv.ua Institute for Condensed Matter Physics | Phone: 380-322-761161 National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Fax: 380-322-761978 1 Svientsitsky St., ========================= UA-290011 Lviv, Ukraine From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 1 11:39:19 1995 Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:09:15 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de, David Carlisle Subject: Re: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN > I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de. > I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution > seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release. Specifcally, > I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days: > > 1995/06/23 | 146406 | macros/latex/base/classes.dtx > 1995/06/23 | 41810 | macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx > 1995/06/27 | 3936 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx > 1995/06/27 | 19215 | macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx > 1995/06/23 | 21102 | macros/latex/unpacked/article.cls > 1995/06/23 | 23871 | macros/latex/unpacked/book.cls > 1995/06/23 | 23898 | macros/latex/unpacked/report.cls > > Does this indicate that there have been some updates/fixes/patches after > the officially announced release dated 1995/06/21 without telling anyone > or have these files been touched (perhaps accidentily) for some other > reasons? Anyone care to explain? I know there have been updates to the files you noticed, apart from ltpictur.dtx (about which I know nothing). David Carlisle has an announcement in the pipeline for the classes and the graphics stuff (I know this because he told me), but I haven't seen it yet. I don't understand the situation about ltpictur.dtx -- I didn't notice an installation announcement about it changing (any installation appears in our mailboxes so we can tell what's going on...) Robin From tim@maths.tcd.ie Sat Jul 1 08:47:00 1995 Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:53:00 +0100 (BST) From: tim@maths.tcd.ie Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems? > > a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex. I have no problem with this: "latex amsldoc" seems to work ok. Perhaps you have to update your amslatex package ? From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jul 1 10:06:43 1995 Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:19:17 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: vieth@xerxes.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Q re: LaTeX2e June 95 release on CTAN > I have just had a look at the latest FILES.last07days from ftp.dante.de. > I was surprised to find that a couple of files of the LaTeX2e distribution > seem to have newer file dates than the rest of the release. Specifcally, > I find the following files in today's FILES.last07days: Yes these are bug fix updates. It is true that they were not announced which is perhaps unfortunate, but the first priority is to get the fixes on to ctan so that at least no more people get the problems reported. Idealy an anouncement should be made at the same time but a) most of the development team are away on other duties at present and b) just after a release we always get a lot of mail, and so just keeping up has taken up all our time.... In fact I have just prepared a fix for the one remaining bug that has been reported and there will be a fully announced `patch level one' issue beginning of next week. The announcement of that will mention all the other files that have been updated, and the bugs the updates fixed. Normally one can check recent bug reports on the public bugs database on the www, as described in bugs.txt. Someone mentioned yesterday that the public database is not being updated, I can nt check from here but if that is the case it will be a temporary problem with the mirror and corrected as soon as possible. David From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jul 1 07:26:12 1995 Date: 01 Jul 1995 11:21:19 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems? please do not send bug reports to the ctan-ann address, use latexbug.tex as described in bbugs.txt Your problem b) is fixed in the recent update of the classes files on ctan. See my previous message to this list. David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 19:24:40 1995 Date: 02 Jul 1995 16:09:17 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, David Carlisle Subject: David Carlisle: LaTeX2e Patch level One LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 1 Release ========================================== Following the June LaTeX release, some bugs have been reported. These have now been corrected by updating the following files on ctan. The file patches.txt contains more information about the particular bugs fixed. unpacked/article.cls unpacked/report.cls unpacked/book.cls unpacked/latex209.def base/classes.dtx base/latex209.dtx base/ltpictur.dtx base/patches.txt base/ltpatch.ltx If you have already obtained the June release of LaTeX you just need to obtain the above files, and re-make the format by running initex on latex.ltx. This should modify the startup banner from LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> to LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 1 ====================================================================== Since the June release three files in the graphics and tools bundles have also been updated: tools/layout.dtx graphics/epsfig.dtx graphics/graphicx.dtx ====================================================================== David Carlisle LaTeX3 project From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 22:29:42 1995 Date: 03 Jul 1995 16:34:05 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, Daniel Taupin , Werner Icking Subject: Musixtex directory split For some time, CTAN has carried two copies of MusiXTeX, one originating from Daniel Taupin and the other from Andreas Egler. Two weeks ago, following a mirroring error here, Andreas Egler's copy got deleted from CTAN; since I was ill at the time, nothing happened for several days; fortunately, when I got back to work, Andreas had supplied me with a new version... I have therefore decided that the only safe way to proceed is to move the two parts into separate directories -- macros/musixtex/taupin which is mirrored (indirectly) into CTAN from Daniel's site macros/musixtex/egler which is installed on CTAN by me as and when Andreas sends me a new version (The directories continue to be accessible as support/musictex/, for historical reasons.) If either of the two active authors have any direct comment on the present CTAN layout, they are welcome to mail me; I can (for example) cross-link such things as examples files if necessary. For safety's sake, however, I will not revert to the previous situation of having both versions in the same directory, whatever the authors think; losing files in this way tends to lead to disproportionate amounts of work from the CTAN team and the systems staff of the machines on which the archives are hosted, and I am unwilling to leave us exposed in this way. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk Mon Jul 10 05:17:50 1995 Date: 03 Jul 1995 16:34:05 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk, Daniel Taupin , Werner Icking Subject: Musixtex directory split Resent-Date: 10 Jul 1995 09:11:50 +0100 (BST) Resent-From: "R. Allan Reese" Resent-To: Alex Sharaz For some time, CTAN has carried two copies of MusiXTeX, one originating from Daniel Taupin and the other from Andreas Egler. Two weeks ago, following a mirroring error here, Andreas Egler's copy got deleted from CTAN; since I was ill at the time, nothing happened for several days; fortunately, when I got back to work, Andreas had supplied me with a new version... I have therefore decided that the only safe way to proceed is to move the two parts into separate directories -- macros/musixtex/taupin which is mirrored (indirectly) into CTAN from Daniel's site macros/musixtex/egler which is installed on CTAN by me as and when Andreas sends me a new version (The directories continue to be accessible as support/musictex/, for historical reasons.) If either of the two active authors have any direct comment on the present CTAN layout, they are welcome to mail me; I can (for example) cross-link such things as examples files if necessary. For safety's sake, however, I will not revert to the previous situation of having both versions in the same directory, whatever the authors think; losing files in this way tends to lead to disproportionate amounts of work from the CTAN team and the systems staff of the machines on which the archives are hosted, and I am unwilling to leave us exposed in this way. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From anne007@cs.vu.nl Fri Jul 7 19:22:27 1995 Date: 04 Jul 1995 08:15:58 +0100 (MET) From: Anne Steegstra Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> problems? L.S. The problems I had: a. I cannot typeset the amsldoc.tex b. The format of my index has changed. are solved thanks to Reinhard Zierke: > There was a mistake in classes.dtx which has been corrected. Get the > not-yet-announced updates from ftp.dante.de: > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/base/classes.dtx (Jun 28 14:32) > /tex-archive/macros/latex/base/ltpictur.dtx (Jun 23 10:48) > /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics/epsfig.dtx (Jun 27 16:03) > /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics/graphicx.dtx (Jun 27 16:03) > Greetings all and thanks, Anne Steegstra email: anne007@cs.vu.nl From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Thu Jul 6 19:14:34 1995 Date: 04 Jul 1995 15:57:58 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: Small emTeX update I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de: - first.zip: updated - dvid16a?.zip: replaced with dvid16b?.zip: bug in dviscr removed, dvipm improved - l2input.zip, l2base.zip, and l2tools.zip: patch level 1 of LaTeX2e. Please create new format files for LaTeX2e! Eberhard Mattes From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul 9 19:17:18 1995 Date: 05 Jul 1995 11:57:53 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante; upgrading) matsd@physchem.kth.se has updated his packages in > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemsym. the new version > differs from the previous in that it is compatible with the > AMS-LaTeX package and that the commands for chemical symbols > are more robust. > > The package defines > commands for the chemical symbols of the elements, which > always are type-set in upright font, as they should. If not > followed by a stoichiometric number, a small space is > inserted. and > Recently I uploaded a new version of `vrsion' to > ftp.dante.de in /incoming/vrsion. The new version differs > from the previous in that it is compatible with the `babel' > package. The uploaded files are meant to replace the files > currntly in .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion. > > The `vrsion' package enables version numbering of LaTeX > files -- in either integers, one-decimal or two-decimal > numbers. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 22:59:48 1995 Date: 05 Jul 1995 16:24:38 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Wilfried Pfister Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: lifia-th on ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming Wilfried Pfister writes: > NOTE : this is an update. This version corrects minor bugs and gives a better > documentation. It can be considered as a stable one. Thanks. > > *Site : ftp.tex.ac.uk > > *File : lifia-th-2.0.tar.gz > > *Size : 129756 > > *Short description : lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis. > > *Long description : lifia-th is a documented class to produce a french thesis. > It may be customized for any laboratory. It contains french sectionning, date, > and names. It allow user to have lists of figures, tables and exemples. It > automatically makes a title page, headings, etc. > The tar-file contains the following files : > LISEZ.MOI : a short description in french ; > Makefile : the installation/customization Makefile for GNU Make ; > lifia-th.dtx lifia-th.ins : the class and its installation file ; > lifia-th.dvi : the dvi version of the documentation ; > lifia-th.ist : an index style file ; > makeindex-2.12wp.patch.tar : an UNOFFICIAL patch to makeindex. > It allows to consider french TeX and ISO accents when sorting > (new option -f). > test-draft.ps test-draft.texf : an exemple of the draft option ; > test-lifia-th.ps test-lifia-th.texf : an exemple of the final version. > > *Suggested directory : macros/latex/other/lifia-th I expanded the .tar and installed the results in macros/latex/contrib/other/lifia-th (where it was before -- almost as requested...) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul 9 22:17:52 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:00:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: SPIELER@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS TeX (DECUS TeX) July 1995 Christian Spieler writes: > I have submitted > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/decustex_07_jul_95.zip > > This is a complete new release of DECUS TeX, as found in > /tex-archive/systems/vms/ ; to simplify installation, the untouched > files of the previous release have been included as well. > > [...] > > The new release has the following features: > > * Update of the TeX/METAFONT/XXware sources to Knuth's revision of march 1995: > TeX 3.14159, MF 2.718, and some updates in the XXware utilities. > * Upgrade of Patgen to version 2.1 > * XDVI upgraded to Patchlevel 20. > * Bugfix in MAKETEXPK_xxxx.COM procedures. > * Directory layout (more or less) conforming to the upcoming TDS standard. > (with the exception of the PK font tree, where the splitting of > the directory tree according to / is not yet available > because of the still missing path searching code in the supplied DVI > converters. > * Some small bug fixes in the VMS adaption code of the Web-based programs. Thanks, the new version has been installed in systems/vms/... For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Jul 9 22:17:52 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:00:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: SPIELER@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS TeX (DECUS TeX) July 1995 Christian Spieler writes: > I have submitted > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/decustex_07_jul_95.zip > > This is a complete new release of DECUS TeX, as found in > /tex-archive/systems/vms/ ; to simplify installation, the untouched > files of the previous release have been included as well. > > [...] > > The new release has the following features: > > * Update of the TeX/METAFONT/XXware sources to Knuth's revision of march 1995: > TeX 3.14159, MF 2.718, and some updates in the XXware utilities. > * Upgrade of Patgen to version 2.1 > * XDVI upgraded to Patchlevel 20. > * Bugfix in MAKETEXPK_xxxx.COM procedures. > * Directory layout (more or less) conforming to the upcoming TDS standard. > (with the exception of the PK font tree, where the splitting of > the directory tree according to / is not yet available > because of the still missing path searching code in the supplied DVI > converters. > * Some small bug fixes in the VMS adaption code of the Web-based programs. Thanks, the new version has been installed in systems/vms/... For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 7 06:25:50 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 10:05:12 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: spieler@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission, VMS specific BibTeX sources Christian Spieler writes: > I have just uploaded: > > ftp.dante.de::/incoming/bibtex_vms.zip > > This Zip Archive contains VMS adaptation files for porting BibTeX to > OpenVMS (VAX and Alpha). > > Please enter them into > /tex_archive/biblio/bibtex/vms/ , > where they replace the old outdated Web Changefile. Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 7 16:57:57 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 16:07:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Bhaskar Manda Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Bhaskar Manda writes: > a) I've uploaded a file called envbig.sty to /incoming of ftp.dante.de > c) The file is intended to print addresses on 4.5 x 9.125 envelopes > on HP printers. The existing file envelope.sty prints for a smaller > envelope and further prints on trailing side of the nevelope which > is frequently mangled by the printer. > d) The file should be in macros/latex/contrib/other > Thanks > Bhaskar@orion.me.uiuc.edu I installed the file in directory macros/latex/contrib/other/envbig For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 7 15:52:06 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:15:26 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, mutex@stolaf.edu Cc: ehlerabk@rubc.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Subject: Andreas Egler's MusiXTeX v0.45 Andreas has supplied me with v0.45 of his version of MusiXTeX I have installed it as tex-archive/macros/musixtex/egler/musix045.zip here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jul 10 00:01:26 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:23:27 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: malyshev@desert.ihep.su Subject: "Basil K. Malyshev": DC BaKoMa fonts Basil Malyshev writes: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 18:34:31 +0400 From: "Basil K. Malyshev" Reply-To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Message-ID: <199507061434.malyshev@desert.ihep.su> To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Dear archivarius, I have uploaded in CTAN host 'ftp.tex.ac.uk' file '/incoming/BKM-DCx.tar.gz'. This font software package continues BaKoMa Font Collection. The package includes the most usefull European Computer Modern fonts that were borrowed from the Computer Modern family of fonts by D. E. Knuth. Totally, 109 fonts are included into BaKoMa/DC font software package. Original METAFONT codes are located in ftp.tex.ac.uk:tex-archive/fonts/dc. The fonts are in a ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 font format (PFB+AFM). About placement in the archive: One resonable directory is adding to '/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma' directory. In other side, this package includes DC fonts and can be placed to '/tex-archive/fonts/dc/ps-type1'. I hope that this font package will be usefull for many peoples. Bye. Basil K. Malyshev, 05-Jul-95 17:02:44, Protvino, Moscow region, Russie. E-Mail: malyshev@mx.ihep.su or malyshev@dxcern.cern.ch ------- End of Forwarded Message This is great news, Basil! I have installed the fonts as a subtree at tex-archive/fonts/dc/ps-type1/bakoma here on ftp.tex.ac.uk (this is by analogy with the directory structure that is used for the CM BaKoMa fonts; I hope it will be acceptable). There's an awful lot of this stuff, so those in the USA and points onward in particular may suffer from some delay in its propagation to SHSU. (Note, however, that there are rumours of better bandwidth between the UK and the USA, so things may get better some time soon...) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team (Member of an extinct species of archivarii? ;-) From TEX@DKPTHA.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Fri Jul 7 15:56:09 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 18:24:44 +0100 From: TEX@DKPTHA.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Sauter font update I have placed a minor update to the sauter fonts on the german CTAN site in the incoming directory, it will be available soon from the archives in directory tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter23. The main news is support for the June 1995 LaTeX release, there are also some minor cosmetic changes in the arrangement of files and the documentation. I have also provided on popular request ready-made mf files for the standard LaTeX font set. --J"org Knappen. P.S. Version is still 2.3, since no changes to the mf files were done. From gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu Sun Jul 9 18:54:38 1995 Date: 07 Jul 1995 20:12:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Giuseppe De Arcangelis Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Faxing TeX-Dvi documents from DOS-Windows I have a general question regarding the existence of a dvi driver able to print from DOS-Windows on a com port where a modem-fax is linked. Is there any such dvi driver? DviWin is a great program to use any printer that is under Window. However, although my fax board is configured as the "printer" on which all the Windows based programs can print, DviWin fails. Is there any other way to fax directly dvi files even from DOS? Thanks, Giuseppe *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Giuseppe De Arcangelis ph. (313) 764 2368 The University of Michigan fax (313) 764 2769 Dept. of Economics e-mail: gdearc@umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 14:25:28 1995 Date: 09 Jul 1995 17:08:28 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk Subject: A new release of the Camel system I have installed Frank Bennett's latest version of the `Camel citator' (as he calls it) in directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites fairly soon (bandwidth from here to SHSU, for example, has just doubled!). Camel is a LaTeX2e prototype of the citation commands we might expect to appear in LaTeX3 -- it has various features that set it above what BibTeX and related styles have to date achieved. Since Frank is a lawyer, Camel is presented with no more than one `citation style', appropriate for legal citations. A challenge is issued to hardy souls who may care to generate citation styles appropriate for other fields. The new version mends a few bugs and infelicities beyond that which I installed a short while ago; however, the big change is that the source is now presented in the more normal .ins/.dtx form (previously, one had to extract a .ins file from a .doc file by `manually' running docstrip: this was doable -- in the sense that I at least managed it -- but wasn't a terribly exciting experience). There are two sets of .ins/.dtx files in the directory; both installations need to run before the documentation can be generated from the .dtx files. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 18:48:02 1995 Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:17:55 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Re: CTAN submission Piet van Oostrum writes: > It appears that the eepic manual is missing from the CTAN archives. I > uploaded my copy (eepic.tex) to ftp.tex.ac.uk, to be placed in > macros/latex209/contrib/eepic/ I've installed it here. It'll propagate in due time. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 18:48:02 1995 Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:17:55 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Re: CTAN submission Piet van Oostrum writes: > It appears that the eepic manual is missing from the CTAN archives. I > uploaded my copy (eepic.tex) to ftp.tex.ac.uk, to be placed in > macros/latex209/contrib/eepic/ I've installed it here. It'll propagate in due time. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 9 19:38:42 1995 Date: 09 Jul 1995 23:29:12 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: plain.sty for LaTeX2e 1995/06/01 I have installed a copy of David Carlisle's (rather old) plain.sty modified (at David's suggestion) for the June release of LaTeX2e on CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/plain.sty plain.sty provides an environment that enables LaTeX users to typeset plain TeX documents. Aspiring users should note that this is not a foolproof means of proceeding: plain documents have a way of defining macros that are incompatible with LaTeX's way of doing things... The file's preamble says: Defines a new environment plain, in which plain TeX files should be LaTeX'able. Defines \magnification and \bye to be no-op. Re-enables some plain commands (\line, \eqalign ...) Fakes some other plain commands (\footnote, \topinsert, ... ) Keeps LaTeX's font definitions, and output routine. Example use: \begin{plain} \input{Somebodys_plain_file.tex} \end{plain} You do not have to \input the plain commands, they can be entered directly inside the plain environment. Note that this style file is designed to make plain TeX files do something sensible inside LaTeX. The page breaks, widths of lines, fonts used etc may not be the same as obtained from plain TeX. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Sun Jul 9 23:06:06 1995 Date: 09 Jul 1995 22:05:44 -0500 (EST) From: tiedtke@vnwz00.uni-muenster.de Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: metapost 0.63 for OS/2 I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de META4OS2.ZIP and META4OS2.readme. They are currently in the incoming directory but should propagate to CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/os2/metapost. The archive contains the executables and assorted files for metapost 0.63 for OS/2. They are based on Piet van Oostrum's port of metapost 0.63 for MS-DOS. He did the port with E. Matthes' emx/gcc. So you need a current installation of emTeX or you must get the latest emx runtime package (emx 0.9a FIX05 or later). I rebound the executables he made with emxbind. The port uses an unix shellscript instead of the batch files Piet provided, since I didn't got them run and I'm not familiar with REXX. The unix shell is the same Peter Miller and I used for P.M. port of metapost 0.62 for OS/2. This shell can be found in CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/MetaPost4OS2/ms_sh23b.zip. Piet's port can be found on CTAN:/tex-archive/systems/msdos/metapost and contains the source code and documentation (postscript). META4OS2.ZIP contains installation instructions in the file README.OS2. Uwe Baumert ******************************************************************************** * Institute for General Zoology and Genetics * * University of Muenster * * Schlossplatz 5 Tel.: +49 251 834675 * * D-48149 Muenster, Germany Fax: +49 251 834723 * ******************************************************************************** From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 10 06:14:00 1995 Date: 10 Jul 1995 11:07:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Santiago Vila Doncel Subject: Re: CTAN submission Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > I have uploaded the following files to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst > > readme.1st > makeinst.zip > > MAKEINST is a program to generate .BAT files to install emTeX. > It may be useful for everybody who wants to do this in more than > one computer. > > Suggested CTAN place where I think it may be: > > systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst Thanks, the package has been installed in the indicated location. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 11 12:58:14 1995 Date: 11 Jul 1995 17:35:47 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ULI WORTMANN Subject: Re: upload notification ULI WORTMANN writes: > I uploaded the ispell-3.1.18 port to os2 (beta3), onto > ftp.dante.de/incoming. It's a straightforward port of the unix-ispell. > Archive Name: isp31b3.zip > > suggested description: > os2 port of ispell-3.1.18, a multilingual spell checker -- beta3 > > suggested location: > support/ispell/os2/ and a link to systems/os2/ispell > > Needs: os2/2.x -- is supposed to work with emacs & auctex and > plain terminals, will still not work on DOS, maybe it works on FAT-drives. > > comes with german and english dictionarys, all binaries a > working munchlist script, complete sources and the emx runtime libs. > > Contact: Uli Wortmann uli@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de Thanks, it has been installed in the indicated places. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 12 05:44:59 1995 Date: 12 Jul 1995 09:38:54 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: burchard@horizon.math.utah.edu Subject: Re: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package Paul Burchard writes: > I have submitted the archive file > > /incoming/pb-diagram/pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z > > to the ftp.shsu.edu FTP site. This archive contains version 4.0 of > my "pb-diagram" LaTeX/LaTeX2e package for commutative diagrams, > along with documentation and examples. > > Assuming "supported" means supported by the author of the package, > my suggested location for the files is: > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/ I have installed it (at SHSU) as suggested. However, I removed the lams?.mf files (which are duplicates of the corresponding files in macros/lamstex/mf, and installed a link to that directory in their place. The installation should propagate to the other CTANs overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From cesar@eup.udl.es Wed Jul 12 15:02:36 1995 Date: 12 Jul 1995 19:38:34 +0100 From: Cesar Fernandez Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package protection ftp.shsu.edu FTP site has no read permission for the world in pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z file. I've had no chance to retrieve-it Cesar. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 13 05:28:26 1995 Date: 13 Jul 1995 09:21:47 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: cesar@eup.udl.es Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: UPLOAD: pb-diagram LaTeX package protection > ftp.shsu.edu FTP site has no read permission for the world in > pb-diagram-4.0.tar.Z file. When I announced its installation, I reported that the files contained in it had been uploaded to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram In fact it's made it here (ftp.tex.ac.uk), so you don't even have to make a trans-atlantic connection to get it. None of the CTANs offer read access to uploaded files in /incoming, which is why you need to monitor CTAN-Ann for announcement of where the files have been installed. > I've had no chance to retrieve-it I beg to differ Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 14 18:29:14 1995 Date: 14 Jul 1995 17:48:48 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: eMail CTAN , Markus Porto Subject: Re: CTAN submission Markus Porto writes: > I upload the folder TeX-Service to ftp.dante.de. This folder contains a > package for a local installation of the TeX-Service of the computer center > of the University of Giessen (URL: http://www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/tex/) and a > special version of the Cookbook for LaTeX (both in German). I suggest a > final location like pub/tex/tools/www/TeX-Service. Thanks, I installed the package under info/TeX-Service Rainer Schöpf > I include here the READMEs for both packages: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > README for the TeX-Service-Paket > > The TeX-Service-Paket is a special version of the TeX-Service of the > computer center of the University of Giessen, Germany > (URL http://www.uni-giessen.de/hrz/tex/tex.html). This package is > intended to be installed on other WWW servers. If you have questions > or problems with the installation do not hesitate to contact me via > email (address below). > > Note: The text in the package is written in German. If somebody likes to > translate the text and the examples to English contact me via email. > > Markus Porto > Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > README for the Kochbuch Standalone Paket > > First of all the most important things > > Copy me, I want to travel. > > and > > This software comes to you without any money > and it is well worth its price! > > The Kochbuch Standalone Paket is a special version of the cookbook within > the TeX-Service of the computer center of the University of Giessen, Germany, > which can be used without a WWW server. To use this package on your private > computer (DOS/Unix etc.), you only need a WWW client (Mosaic or NetScape e.g.) > to view the pages. The pages do not contain links to pages outside the package. > > To install the package you need to get one version of the Kochbuch Standalone > Paket and unpack it on your private computer. > > Example: FTP transfer: > > ftp> bin > ftp> get Kochbuch-Standalone-Paket.pkz cookbook.pkz > > unpack: > pkunzip -d cookbook.pkz > > ATTENTION: For pkunzip the option -d is important! > > start your favorite WWW client and `Open Local' the file > cookbook.htm, that's all! > > Note: The text in the package is written in German. If somebody likes to > translate the text and the examples to English contact me via email. > > Markus Porto > Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sincerly, > Markus Porto /'^'\ > ( o o ) > -------------------------------------------------------oOOO--(_)--OOOo--------- > Markus Porto > Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Giessen > > email: Markus.Porto@physik.uni-giessen.de (PGP public key available!) > address: Markus Porto > Institute for Theoretical Physics > University of Giessen > Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16 > 35392 Giessen > Germany > tel: +49 641 702 2810 (secreteriate) .oooO > fax: +49 641 702 2813 ( ) Oooo. > ---------------------------------------------------------\ (----( )---------- > \_) ) / > (_/ From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 17 17:58:00 1995 Date: 17 Jul 1995 16:31:57 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released I've just put patchlevel 2 of the June 95 release onto the CTAN host ftp.dante.de from where it will propagate to the other hosts in due course. The files affected are: base/ltpictur.dtx base/syntonly.dtx base/patches.txt base/ltpatch.ltx For the LaTeX team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl Tue Jul 18 03:35:34 1995 Date: 18 Jul 1995 06:28:19 +0000 (MDT) From: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released Dear Mr Schoepf, On the mailng list you wrote that following files were updated on ftp.dante.de: > base/ltpictur.dtx > base/syntonly.dtx > base/patches.txt > base/ltpatch.ltx The timestamp of these files however is Jan 19 ! Is there something wrong with the server, or is the problem on my side of the line? If it's on youur side, won't it affect propagation to the other CTAN's? Regards, -- Peter Kruijt | e-mail: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl Department of Mechanical Engineering | WH 0.132 PO Box 513 Eindhoven University of Technology | NL 5600 MB Eindhoven From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 18 04:30:14 1995 Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:10:39 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN upload (dante) matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > I have recently uploaded a new version of the `deleq' > package to ftp.dante.de/incoming/deleq. The files are to > replace the current version in > .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/deleq/ > > The new version is compatible with the `fleqn' class option > as well as the `leqno' option. `deleq' provides commands > and environments for pratially numbered equations, recycled > equation numbers, and flexible referecing to partially > numbered equations. (A partially numbered equation in > `deleq' terminology is e.g. 3a.) Thanks, the update has just been installed. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jul 18 04:30:17 1995 Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:13:08 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Santiago Vila Doncel Subject: Re: CTAN submission Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > I have uploaded the following file to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst > > makeinst.zip > > MAKEINST is a program to generate .BAT files to install emTeX. > It may be useful for everybody who wants to do this in more than > one computer. > > This is an upgrade (version 0.2). > It should replace the file > > systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst/makeinst.zip Your update has been installed. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 06:18:37 1995 Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:22:58 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: mcgrant@wheezer.Stanford.EDU Subject: Re: PSfrag maintenance release > I've uploaded psfrag.tar.gz to ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming. > It should replace the contents of > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag > This is a maintenance release to take care of incompatibilites > introduced by the new version of the graphics package... I have installed the replacement version (at SHSU) in macros/latex/ contrib/supported/psfrag It should propagate to the other CTANs overnight Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jul 18 06:51:32 1995 Date: 18 Jul 1995 09:45:34 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: peterk@wfw.wtb.tue.nl Subject: Re: LaTeX 1.6.95 pl 2 released Peter Kruit writes: > On the mailng list you wrote that following files were updated on ftp.dante.de: > > base/ltpictur.dtx > > base/syntonly.dtx > > base/patches.txt > > base/ltpatch.ltx > The timestamp of these files however is Jan 19 ! Is there something wrong with > the server, or is the problem on my side of the line? If it's on youur side, > won't it affect propagation to the other CTAN's? I find this confusing. Rainer installed the files yesterday, and they duly propagated here yesterday evening; thus the dates were plainly right yesterday. I've just looked at them here, at SHSU and on dante, and they're marked as having the correct dates in all three places (though the times on SHSU are odd). Presumably there was a glitch of some sort that caused the problem you saw. Robin Fairbairns From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Jul 21 02:08:28 1995 Date: 20 Jul 1995 13:06:00 +0100 From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 The third patch to the June release of LaTeX has just been placed on ftp.dante.de, and will reach other ctan archives in due course. This patch is essentially just to include a couple of small updates omitted from patch level 2. The files that have changed are latex/base -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 1873 Jul 20 11:56 patches.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 14569 Jul 20 11:55 proc.dtx -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 33999 Jul 20 11:54 latex209.dtx latex/unpacked -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 14085 Jul 20 11:57 latex209.def -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 6007 Jul 20 11:57 proc.cls -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 5823 Jul 20 11:57 proc.sty Please see the file patches.txt for details of the problems fixed in this release. That file also details the full list of files that were updated in the previous two patch releases. David Carlisle LaTeX3 project From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Jul 22 06:41:32 1995 Date: 20 Jul 1995 17:02:30 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: gb4e hans-peter kolb writes: > after this packages has been favourably reported on in the LINGUIST > list, there is, I'm afraid, no way around installation on CTAN, > although I'd have preferred to finalize a cleaner 2e-Version > first... > > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de > the file gb4e.tar.gz.THE.REAL.ONE > > which untars to gb4e/ > gb4e/gb4e-doc.tex > gb4e/cgloss4e.sty > gb4e/gb4e.sty > > ==> (Please trash file gb4e.tar.gz---its a 209-only version <== > ==> I uploaded accidentally and wasn't able to overwrite with <== > ==> The Real Thing...) <== > > I would suggest the installation of its contents in the > macros/latex/contrib/supported > directory, maybe with a link to > macros/latex209/contrib/supported > > > Short Description: > > gb4e and cgloss4e are yet another aid for typesetting linguistic texts > written by C. Thiersch and myself, drawing in parts on related work of > several other people (cf. the documentation for proper credit). > > Its components are > - a very flexible environment for formatting linguistic examples, > - robust commands for handling glosses (they even work in footnotes!) > - miscellaneous macros to make the life of The Typing Linguist easier. > > Though originally developed under LaTeX 2.09 (and still showing it in > the code), the package runs without difficulties in native LaTeX2e. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > hans-peter kolb kolb@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de > Universit"at T"ubingen/SfS +49-7071-297315 > Kleine Wilhelmstrasse 113 +49-7071-72465 (priv.) > D-72074 T"ubingen (Germany) FAX: +49-7071-550520 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks a lot for your submission. The package has been installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/gb4e with a link from macros/latex209/contrib/gb4e to that directory as well. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schoepf Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitaet Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From wscoas@win.tue.nl Fri Jul 21 06:05:57 1995 Date: 21 Jul 1995 10:11:47 +0200 From: Anton A. Stoorvogel Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 I am wondering whether you made a mistake. I got the latest patchlevel but the file ltpatch.ltx contains \def\fmtversion@topatch{1995/06/01} % This patch will not work with % any other release. \def\patch@level{0} It seems it is a file corresponding to patchlevel 0. Can you enlighten me ? Best regards, Anton Stoorvogel From tex@itap.physik.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Jul 21 07:26:22 1995 Date: 21 Jul 1995 11:07:36 +0200 From: TeX Manager Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Where isCTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu patchlevel 3 ? I've just copied ltpatch.ltx from CTAN 1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx It contains the line \def\patch@level{0} I think there is something wrong. Juergen Bachteler P.S.: It's the same on all CTANs. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jul 21 08:29:19 1995 Date: 21 Jul 1995 11:27:45 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk, Eberhard Mattes , te@informatik.uni-hannover.de, hans-peter kolb Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 David Carlisle writes: > > The third patch to the June release of LaTeX has just been placed on > ftp.dante.de, and will reach other ctan archives in due course. > > This patch is essentially just to include a couple of small updates > omitted from patch level 2. The files that have changed are > > latex/base > -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 1873 Jul 20 11:56 patches.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 Mr.Ftp 1761 Jul 20 11:55 ltpatch.ltx Due to an unfortuante error on my part (it's simply too hot here!) wrong versions of some of the files were put on the servers. I've just corrected it. Thanks to all who noticed the mistake and mailed me about it. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Rainer Schöpf From walker@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Fri Jul 21 10:27:51 1995 Date: 21 Jul 1995 14:21:45 +0200 From: Richard Walker Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e <1995/06/01> patch level 3 Rainer Schoepf writes: > Due to an unfortuante error on my part (it's simply too hot here!) Damit stimme ich zu!!! Richard, in Karlsruhe. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 22 16:59:13 1995 Date: 22 Jul 1995 15:35:50 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Denis Roegel writes: -- From: "Denis B. Roegel" Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:09:03 +0200 To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN Submission I have uploaded the file truchet.tar.gz in Aston's incoming directory. Here is the beginning of the README: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Truchet tiling -------------- This directory contains what I wrote for the contest proposed by Denis Girou and Philippe Esperet at the GUTenberg congress on June 1 & 2, 1995. The problem is known as `Truchet tiling'. There were two parts: coloration of lines, and colorations of surfaces. Initially, the problem would have to be solved using pure PostScript or PSTricks. I prefered to use METAPOST. A survey of all the solutions will appear in a forthcoming issue of ``Les Cahiers GUTenberg''. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The file truchet.tar.gz expands in a directory `truchet'. I recommend this directory to be graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/truchet Denis Roegel (roegel@loria.fr) -- I have installed the stuff as Denis suggests; it should propagate to the other CTANs fairly soon Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From robin@scri.fsu.edu Sun Jul 23 11:38:40 1995 Date: 23 Jul 1995 10:29:18 -0500 From: robin@scri.fsu.edu Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Paul A. Thompson , robin@mailer.scri.fsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Paul Thompson writes: >I have uploaded a file to ftp.shsu.edu. The file is entitled >acromake.sty. The file creates acronyms, as described in Tex and >Tug news, v.4 #3. I would recommend placing this at: > >tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other I have duly installed the file (at SHSU, for once). It should propagate to the other CTANs overnight. The path is in fact macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/acromake.sty Robin Fairbairns (for the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jul 24 04:31:59 1995 Date: 24 Jul 1995 09:26:48 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: Ulrich Jahnz , ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Ulrich Jahnz writes: > today I uploaded a couple of files onto German CTAN-node > 'ftp.dante.de'. All files are stored in '/incoming/e4t'. > > Please move all files to "my" directory '/pub/tex/systems/msdos/e4t'. > Any files already stored in '/pub/tex/systems/msdos/e4t' have to be > deleted. > > May be you could create a subdir '/pub/tex/systems/os2/e4t' which has > a link to "my" directory. Thank you for your submission, I installed the files as requested and made in link in the systems/os2 subdirectory. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Jul 24 05:15:28 1995 Date: 24 Jul 1995 09:56:41 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: emTeX update: LaTeX2e patch level 3 I've updated the following files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex on ftp.dante.de: first.zip l2input.zip l2base.zip README.ENG README.GER CHANGES.ENG CHANGES.GER Eberhard Mattes From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jul 27 06:09:09 1995 Date: 24 Jul 1995 16:36:50 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Janusz S. Bie/n Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission:ogonek Janusz S. Bie/n writes: > Following the upload instruction on ftp.dante.de, on 10th July I > notified CTAN-Mgr about my upload, but it still is not placed on > CTAN. Is the upload instruction correct and up-to-date? Anyway, > please process my upload as soon as possible, as it is an important > upgrade of the package wich no longer works with the recent LaTeX2e. Unfortunately, George Greenwade is away at the moment, so that mails to the ctan-mgr address do not reach us. Please send to ctan@shsu.edu instead. > (a) I have put the following files into the /incoming/ogonek > directory on ftp.dante.de: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > readme > ogonek.dtx > ogonek.ins > togonek1.ltx > togonek2.ltx > > (b) This is the updated version of the ogonek package. Below please > find its short description: > > This LaTeX2e package provides a command to typeset letters with the > ogonek diacritic mark; they are used in Polish and Lithuanian. The > command is named \k in accordance with the \k command available in > LaTeX2e for T1 encoding and DC fonts; however, it can be used also > with other font encodings, especially OT1 and CM fonts. For Polish > the best results are obtained with the special Polish PL fonts. > > (c) This version replaces an earlier version present in > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek with a link to it from > tex-archive/languages/polish. I've just made teh update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 27 21:14:31 1995 Date: 28 Jul 1995 01:04:40 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: oetiker@dmu.ac.uk Subject: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1 Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here. It should propagate to the other CTANs soon. Thanks, Tobi -- I believe this document provides a great service to (english-speaking) beginners in LaTeX. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 28 22:41:37 1995 Date: 29 Jul 1995 02:28:32 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Jim Hefferon Subject: Re: shadethm.sty upload Jim Hefferon writes: > Notes for shadethm.sty 24July95 from: hefferon@smcvax.smcvt.edu > > This is a LaTeX2e package that allows declarations like: > \newshadetheorem{thm}{Theorem} > to cause \begin{thm} .. \end{thm} to produce a LaTeX theorem inside a shaded > box. It is an upgrade of my 2.09 style file that did roughly the same thing. > > I will support it. [...] I have installed the package (at SHSU); it will propagate to the other CTANs in due course. I put it in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/shadethm (four files in the directory). Thanks, Jim. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 29 11:58:56 1995 Date: 29 Jul 1995 15:55:34 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Eric.Picheral@univ-rennes1.fr, Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Yves Arrouye writes: > I have uploaded mkpkfontdir.tar.gz on ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. > > Here is a short description of the aim of the tool contained in the archive: > > mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX pk fonts directories > and reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some > transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree. > > mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for > efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of > symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been > successfully used in a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put > generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy. > > It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and > the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right > place. > > The archive contains the following files, under mkpkfontdir/: > > 00Contents > 00Description > INSTALL > Makefile > README > lnggetopt.pl > > misc: > MakeTeXPK.in > README > texmf.cnf.in > > tmpl: > mkpkfontdir > mkpkfontdir.1 > > I think it could be moved under fonts/utilities. Thanks, Yves. I have installed the package under fonts/utilities/mkpkfontdir at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs soon. I removed the 00* files, since they are generated automatically by the CTAN mechanisms; I arranged that 00Description would be regenerated pretty much the same as Yves' submission Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Sat Jul 29 12:56:25 1995 Date: 30 Jul 1995 01:51:29 +1000 (EST) From: Brian Davey Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1 On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short > introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here. It should > propagate to the other CTANs soon. > What is the file name and path? Brian ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Brian A. Davey Email: B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au Reader and Associate Professor FAX: +61 3 9479 3670 School of Mathematics . +61 3 9479 3650 La Trobe University _-_|\ Phone: +61 3 9479 2599 (Office) Bundoora / \ +61 3 9479 2600 (Messages) Victoria \_.-_*/ +61 3 9432 8160 (Home) Australia 3083 v +61 3 9432 8663 (Home/Computer) WWW: http://www.maths.latrobe.edu.au ______________________________________________________________________________ From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 29 13:52:14 1995 Date: 29 Jul 1995 17:39:46 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Subject: Re: "A `short' introduction to LaTeX2e" version 2.1 Brian Davey writes (quoting me): > > Tobi Oetiker has provided me with a new version of his short > > introduction, and I've installed it on the CTAN here. It should > > propagate to the other CTANs soon. > > What is the file name and path? Sorry folks. This is what comes of installing things at 3000 miles remove from one's home base... The _directory_ that I reinstalled was tex-archive/info/lshort There are various PostScript files and the complete sources in that directory Robin Fairbairns From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 2 00:59:00 1995 Date: 02 Aug 1995 04:53:15 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Erica Harris writes (neatly filling in the set of questions we want answered): > 1. Uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk > > 2. Uploaded: subtabfg.sty > > 3. The file is for the subnumbering of figures and/or tables in the form 1a, > 1b, etc. It was designed for LaTeX 2.09 in 1990. I have no idea whether it > will work with LaTeX2e. > > 4. Would suggest that the file be placed in > /ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib. I have installed the file as macros/latex209/contrib/misc/subtabfg.sty It may propagate to the other CTANs before start of work tomorrow, but I wouldn't count on it (it being rather early in Cambridge's day...). FWIW, it looks as if it would work with 2e, but I haven't tested it, and things may appear after more than cursory examination. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug 2 16:54:40 1995 Date: 02 Aug 1995 18:25:05 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, kummer@rzcspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Olaf Kummer writes: > I have uploaded the following files to > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming/dsrom . > > -rw-r--r-- 1 kummer 2427 Aug 2 12:05 ReadMe > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 194 Aug 2 11:39 Udsrom.fd > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 127 Aug 2 11:40 dsfont.sty > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 1194 Aug 1 17:46 dsrom.mf > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 4852 Aug 1 17:47 dsrom10.300gf > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 3692 Aug 1 17:11 dsrom10.mf > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 300 Aug 1 17:47 dsrom10.tfm > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 5800 Aug 1 17:39 dsrom12.300gf > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 3712 Aug 1 17:37 dsrom12.mf > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 300 Aug 1 17:39 dsrom12.tfm > -rw-r--r-- 2 kummer 46086 Aug 1 18:10 dsromu.mf > > The package provides fonts for typesetting > double stroke characters that are commonly used > to typeset the sign for the natural numbers, > the complex numbers etc. The font fulfill the same > purpose as the "Blackboard Bold" font from the > AMS, but they are based on the original Computer > Modern Fonts by D.E.Knuth. > > The package includes two pregenerated fonts at 300 dpi > and a style file for incorporating them into LaTeX2e > with NFSS. > > I suggest that you place the fonts in a directory > like /pub/tex/fonts/dblstroke or /pub/tex/fonts/dsrom . Thanks a lot. I installed the files in directory fonts/doublestroke For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 3 11:34:51 1995 Date: 03 Aug 1995 13:53:46 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: auhl@ppp-auhl.fzi.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission auhl@ppp-auhl.fzi.de writes: > I just uploaded the file texit.cmd onto ftp.dante.de together with the > description file texit.txt. It's a kind of make for TeX under OS/2 for use with > the emtex package, but may be adjusted to run with other packages than emtex. > > A good place might be systems/os2/emtex-contrib. > > Axel. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Axel Uhl Tel. (voice) +49 721 555 114 > Weinbrennerstraáe 108 Fax. +49 721 550 470 > 76185 Karlsruhe > > WWW: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ub1q/axelindex.html Thanks a lot. Your files are now installed in systems/os2/emtex-contrib/texit For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 3 09:18:34 1995 Date: 03 Aug 1995 13:58:52 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Anders Svensson , ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Anders Svensson writes: > I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p189.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of > ftp.shsu.edu. > > This contains an update to my diagram package residing in > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named "kuvio" > and contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN. > The old files can (once again!) be blown away. Thanks a lot. I've just installed the new files on SHSU, from where they will propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 3 13:07:49 1995 Date: 03 Aug 1995 17:17:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, tnnvjn@urc.tue.nl Subject: Re: CTAN submission Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > i have uploaded a new release, 0.44, > of the pre-processor package for MusiXTeX > > site: ftp.dante.de > file: mpp-0.44.tar.gz > mpp-0x44.zip (msdos) > use: the package is a pre-processor for MusiXTeX, > much like abc2musictex, but much more powerfull > it defines a simple musical language that > can be pre-processed into valid MusiXTeX input > some examples and doc are included > it is still in the test phase > dir: suggested is of course /pub/tex/support/music2tex > > greetings, > -- > Jan Nieuwenhuizen > tnnvjn@asterix.urc.tue.nl Thank you for your submission. I've just installed the new files. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 5 12:47:27 1995 Date: 05 Aug 1995 16:30:32 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Young U. Ryu Subject: Re: gTeX upload Young U. Ryu writes: > In the /incoming/gtex directory, I uploaded gTeX Distribution 2.2. > Uploaded files should go to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > First, remove all files in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > And then copy those in /incoming/gtex to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > > GTeX is an implementation of TeX typesetting system for > MSDOS and Windows. I have duly installed the new version at SHSU; it will probably propagate fairly quickly, this being a week-end. Our thanks for another of your great contributions. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Aug 7 05:05:31 1995 Date: 07 Aug 1995 09:54:44 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: emTeX update I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de (the update will appear on the other CTAN hosts soon): - dvid16c?.zip, replacing dvid16b?.zip: various bug fixes and improvements - mfjob12b.zip, replacing mfjob12a.zip: use MFjob macros in templates - bibtex4b.zip, replacing bibtex4a.zip: wizard function space increased. IMPORTANT: New directory structure, use `emremove' to remove package `bibtex4a' before installing package `bibtex4b'! - dvisp10b.zip, replacing dvisp10a.zip: various improvements Eberhard Mattes From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 17:39:30 1995 Date: 07 Aug 1995 09:54:44 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Hayo & Maartje Subject: emTeX update I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de (the update will appear on the other CTAN hosts soon): - dvid16c?.zip, replacing dvid16b?.zip: various bug fixes and improvements - mfjob12b.zip, replacing mfjob12a.zip: use MFjob macros in templates - bibtex4b.zip, replacing bibtex4a.zip: wizard function space increased. IMPORTANT: New directory structure, use `emremove' to remove package `bibtex4a' before installing package `bibtex4b'! - dvisp10b.zip, replacing dvisp10a.zip: various improvements Eberhard Mattes (---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de) ( emtex-user archives: ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 7 15:25:36 1995 Date: 07 Aug 1995 16:11:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Ulrich Jahnz , ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission Ulrich Jahnz writes: > today I uploaded a couple of files onto German CTAN-node ftp.dante.de > into /incomings/e4t. Please move all files to /pub/tex/systems/msdos > /e4t thereby replacing all files already in that directory. I installed the new files as requested. Thanks, the CTAN team From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue Aug 8 19:41:55 1995 Date: 08 Aug 1995 10:22:57 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Cc: cottrell@wfu.edu Subject: Re: emtexgi Allin Cottrell writes: > > I have uploaded the files emtexgi.zip, emtexgi.tex, and readme.txt > to /incoming/emtexgi at SHSU. Emtexgi is an MS Windows front-end > for emTeX, which includes some font-creation utilities. I suggest > that it might be placed in a suitable sub-directory of .../emtex-contrib. > Allin's contribution has been installed as suggested in systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/emtexgi with many thanks from CTAN sebastian rahtz From niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De Tue Aug 8 05:08:24 1995 Date: 08 Aug 1995 09:59:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Rolf Niepraschk Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De Subject: CTAN Submission I have uploaded the following 2 files to ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme latex2e.INF is a LaTeX description in the format for the hypertext OS/2 view program. latex2e.INF is converted from the texinfo-file latex2e.texi in /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. ltx_inf.rme is a short README file. I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. Rolf Niepraschk From SEITZ@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at Thu Aug 10 14:53:17 1995 Date: 10 Aug 1995 19:02:19 +0100 From: Peter Seitz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Subjects of postings Dear coordinators of the CTAN, I wonder if it might be possible for you to change the subjects for postings to this list. I think there should be at least the name of the package which was uploaded on CTAN. I have a lot of messages im my mail folder with the subject CTAN submission and so, it is difficult if you're locking through old mails for some packages and you don't know the exaxt name any more. If I upload a file to CTAN, the subject CTAN Submission might be a good subject to tell you what this mail is about, but for this list, it is not (I think). I know, that you folks have a lot of work to do, but this little change of the subject might not cost you a lot of time, isn't it? Thanks a lot in advance With best compliments Peter Seitz (Faculty for civil engineering) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Verkehrswesenzeichensaal (VZS) The better drawing site :-) University of Technology Graz e-mail: seitz@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at (Internet) Technikerstrasse 4/II 2:316/5.18 (FidoNet) A-8010 Graz, Austria -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Aug 11 05:10:22 1995 Date: 11 Aug 1995 08:54:36 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: seitz@bzs.tu-graz.ac.at Cc: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Subjects of postings Peter Seitz writes: > > I wonder if it might be possible for you to change the subjects for > postings to this list. > > I think there should be at least the name of the package which was > uploaded on CTAN. > rest assured that we have no policy on this, and are more than happy to try and and be as helpful as possible in the Subject line. but other people post to ctan-ann too, so everyone should bear you advice in mind. i for one will try and put the package name in the Subject sebastian From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Aug 11 06:29:08 1995 Date: 11 Aug 1995 10:12:10 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: fonts/psfonts and macros/latex/packages/psnfss I have just kicked off a CTAN install of the real versions of the above packages, replacing the beta versions that have been there for a few months. fonts/psfonts replaces the old fonts/metrics, and has important changes if you havent looked at it before. given the state of the link, i wont be surprised if SHSU doesnt get this big collection normally. i'll check on MOnday and install by hand if need be sebastian From lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr Sat Aug 12 08:37:24 1995 Date: 12 Aug 1995 13:19:01 +0200 From: Laurent Siebenmann Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Occam95 update Dear TeXers This note is to announce an update of my TeX macro management utility Occam whose home posting is ftp://matups.math.u-psud.fr//pub/TeX/Occam.dir I have just noticed that it is *not* on CTAN. It would belong with generic macros. Laurent Siebenmann lcs@topo.math.u-psud.fr ====== Short description: The TeX utility Occam is a tool to eliminate from a collection of supporting TeX macros (composite commands) those that are unnecessary in a given typescript. Hopefully, it will serve to (i) let Plain TeX users produce typescripts which can be electronically posted in a compact form that is nevertheless autonomous and perfectly archival, and (ii) to simplify a macro package before making modifications for a special purpose. Occam has two halves: Auditor and DefStrip. It will ultimately be programmed entirely in TeX language to assure that it is universally available. The DefStrip half is still an evolving prototype implemented with a help from an editor (on Macintosh) that has a programmable control language based on grep. To achieve reasonably automatic functioning of Occam, not requiring surveillance by a TeX programmer, it is necessary to maintain a carefully structured master version of each macro package involved; this ``.occ'' version can double as the documented source version of the package. From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Sat Aug 12 08:53:16 1995 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 13:38:07 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, ccnet <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet@uga.BITNET>, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: beta 6 of CJK (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) I've just uploaded the latest beta of my CJK package to ftp.dante.de and it will soon propagate to the other CTAN hosts. CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable the use of CHinese, Japanese and Korean in various encodings. There is special support for MULE. New: \CJKencshape{enc}{shape} to define shapes on a per-encoding base hbf2gf: now integrated in MakeTeXPK; can make .pk fonts on the fly latin-3 and latin-4 added to mule2cjk various bug fixes Happy TeXing From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 13:40:52 1995 Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:30:28 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Richard Gussmann writes: > > a) I have put on /incoming/dinbrief the following files > dinbrief.dtx > dinbrief.ins > readme > announce > b) dinbrief is a LaTeX209/LaTeX2e style/class for writing > letters following the rules of the din (german institude > of standardisation). > c) The files should be placed in > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief > and they should replace the old ones. Thanks, I updated the server. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 17:24:12 1995 Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:57:07 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: TeXSatz@zfn.uni-bremen.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: german OzTeX /LML Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes: > There is some new stuff for the > tex-archive/systems/mac > directory, but first delete Alpha.5.81.sea.hqx > and the hole > /pub/tex/systems/mac/support/alpha directory since it is > definitely outdated. It's now mirrored regularly from ftp.tex.ac.uk. Thanks for pointing this out. > If you prefer the whole Alpha (Editor) directory with all > kinds of contributed and development files, get the > new version now (from ftp://www.cs.umd.edu/pub/faculty/keleher/Alpha/*). > Otherwise just keep the Alpha.6.01.sea.hqx > from the oztex-german incoming directory in a visible place. > > After that you should place the > type-it-for-me-441.hqx > utility close to the Alpha editor in a visible place. I put it into the alpha directory now. > Finally replace the existing oztex-german directory > with the remaining contents of the incoming/oztex-german > directory. Done. Thanks. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 15 14:29:16 1995 Date: 15 Aug 1995 18:59:46 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Juergen Vollmer writes: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' two files > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/packages/contrib' hierarchy. I moved the files into the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy Thanks for the submission For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr Thu Aug 17 05:44:41 1995 Date: 17 Aug 1995 01:37:06 +0200 From: Yves Arrouye Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: mkpkfontdir 1.1 uploaded on CTAN archives I did upload version 1.1 of mkpkfontdir on ftp.tex.ac.uk, as the gzipped tar archive mkpkfontdir.tar.gz. Changes from the previous version are 1/ that only *gf files are moved (so that one can now prevent a directory from being removed by putting a dummy .dontrmme file in it, for example), and 2/ the choice of defaults directories has been enhanced. The archive should replace the previous one in fonts/utilities. The original README for the package follows just in case you need it in the announcement. Sincerely, Yves Arrouye. mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX directories and reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree. mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been successfully used in a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy. It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right place. Yves Arrouye , August 1995. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 17 08:16:39 1995 Date: 17 Aug 1995 11:23:48 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr Subject: Re: mkpkfontdir 1.1 uploaded on CTAN archives Yves Arroye writes: > I did upload version 1.1 of mkpkfontdir on ftp.tex.ac.uk, as the gzipped tar > archive mkpkfontdir.tar.gz. > > Changes from the previous version are 1/ that only *gf files are moved (so > that one can now prevent a directory from being removed by putting a dummy > .dontrmme file in it, for example), and 2/ the choice of defaults directories > has been enhanced. > > The archive should replace the previous one in fonts/utilities. > > The original README for the package follows just in case you need it in the > announcement. I have replaced the old version in fonts/utilities/mkpkfontdir The new stuff should propagate to the other CTANs over night (with a following wind). Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) > mkpkfontdir is a tool for manipulating TeX directories and > reorganizing them in various ways mimicking (after some > transformations) the organization of your tfm files tree. > > mkpkfontdir can generate TDS trees, or mirror and flatten them for > efficient recursive subdirectories searching (by making a pool of > symbolic links that will be searched, for example). It has been > successfully used in a modified MakeTeXPK, for instance, to put > generated pk files at their "right" place in a structure hierarchy. > > It is also a great help for keeping consistency between the tfm and > the pk trees, or simply for putting newly got pk files at their right > place. > > Yves Arrouye , August 1995. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 17 18:56:13 1995 Date: 17 Aug 1995 12:48:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Egler's MusixTeX v0.48 Following a long hiatus arising from me having attended TUG'95 and then immediately moved house, I noticed that Andreas Egler had left a new release of MusixTeX in the /incoming directory here (he doesn't currently have access to email, apparently, so I hadn't been prompted in the normal way). I have installed this new version on CTAN in macros/musixtex/egler -- the files should propagate to the other sites overnight. Andreas says: This time inclusive PS and executables, namely musixflx and l2d. The latter may be used to simplify the renamings (for those, who haven't read the preface). Further changes and enhancements are reported in history.txt Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 17 21:16:49 1995 Date: 17 Aug 1995 14:38:36 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Rolf Niepraschk Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming Rolf Niepraschk writes: > I have uploaded the following 2 files to > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme > > latex2e.INF is a LaTeX description in the format for the hypertext > OS/2 view program. latex2e.INF is converted from the texinfo-file > latex2e.texi in /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. > ltx_inf.rme is a short README file. > > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. I did this. Thanks -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Thu Aug 17 22:22:44 1995 Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:04:34 +1000 (EST) From: Brian Davey Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > Rolf Niepraschk writes: > > > I have uploaded the following 2 files to > > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming > > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme > > > > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the > > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. > > I did this. > > Rainer Schvpf I have just downloaded these two files. Please note that by mistake they have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the latex2e-help-texinfo directory. Brian P.S. Thanks for a great service to the TeX community. ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Brian A. Davey Email: B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au Reader and Associate Professor FAX: +61 3 9479 3670 School of Mathematics . +61 3 9479 3650 La Trobe University _-_|\ Phone: +61 3 9479 2599 (Office) Bundoora / \ +61 3 9479 2600 (Messages) Victoria \_.-_*/ +61 3 9432 8160 (Home) Australia 3083 v +61 3 9432 8663 (Home/Computer) WWW: http://www.maths.latrobe.edu.au ______________________________________________________________________________ From matbad@luxor.latrobe.edu.au Thu Aug 17 23:13:30 1995 Date: 18 Aug 1995 11:04:34 +1000 (EST) From: Brian Davey Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > Rolf Niepraschk writes: > > > I have uploaded the following 2 files to > > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming > > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme > > > > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the > > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. > > I did this. > > Rainer Schvpf I have just downloaded these two files. Please note that by mistake they have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the latex2e-help-texinfo directory. Brian P.S. Thanks for a great service to the TeX community. ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr Brian A. Davey Email: B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au Reader and Associate Professor FAX: +61 3 9479 3670 School of Mathematics . +61 3 9479 3650 La Trobe University _-_|\ Phone: +61 3 9479 2599 (Office) Bundoora / \ +61 3 9479 2600 (Messages) Victoria \_.-_*/ +61 3 9432 8160 (Home) Australia 3083 v +61 3 9432 8663 (Home/Computer) WWW: http://www.maths.latrobe.edu.au ______________________________________________________________________________ From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug 18 08:43:51 1995 Date: 18 Aug 1995 08:50:13 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: B.Davey@latrobe.edu.au, CTAN@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Rolf Niepraschk Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming Brian Davey writes: > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > > > Rolf Niepraschk writes: > > > > > I have uploaded the following 2 files to > > > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming > > > > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme > > > > > > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the > > > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. > > > > I did this. > > > > Rainer Schvpf > > I have just downloaded these two files. Please note that by mistake they > have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the > latex2e-help-texinfo directory. Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I corrected it. Kind regards, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 18 08:20:38 1995 Date: 18 Aug 1995 10:38:53 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Johannes L. Braams Subject: Re: update of ntgclass bundle Johannes L. Braams writes: > I have uploaded a new version of the ntgclass bundle to > ftp.tex.ac.uk. The file ntgclass.zip in the /incoming > directory contains a replacement for the contents of the > directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass > Could you see to it that the contents of ntgclass.zip end up > in the right place on CTAN? I've made this installation. The "right place" is macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de Fri Aug 18 08:37:44 1995 Date: 18 Aug 1995 12:51:39 +0100 From: Axel Schwarz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Rolf Niepraschk Subject: Re: latex2e.INF in /incoming On Fri, 17 Aug Brian Davey wrote > > On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > > > Rolf Niepraschk writes: > > > > > I have uploaded the following 2 files to > > > ftp.dante.de into the directory /incoming > > > > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 99763 Aug 8 09:28 latex2e.INF > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 277 Aug 8 09:54 ltx_inf.rme > > > > > > I suggest that you place latex2e.INF and ltx_inf.rme also in the > > > directory /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo. > > > > I did this. > > > > Rainer Schvpf > > I have just downloaded these two files. Please note that by mistake they > have been put into the latex-help-texinfo directory instead of the > latex2e-help-texinfo directory. > > Brian > This is not right. Thy are correctly installed in latex2e-help-texinfo. Axel ---------------------------------------- - Axel Schwarz - - - - Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de - - Schwarz@rwth-aachen.de - ---------------------------------------- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 19 09:01:59 1995 Date: 19 Aug 1995 12:43:44 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca Subject: Re: CTAN submission Anders Svensson writes: > I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p204.tar.gz to the /incoming directory of > ftp.shsu.edu. > > This contains an update to my diagram package residing in > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named "kuvio" > and contains a complete replacement for the files currently residing on CTAN. > The old files can (yet again!) be blown away. > > Hopefully this will be the last update for a while: The documentation is > complete and there are no remaining bugs of which I'm aware. (We'll see how > long this state of affairs lasts. :^) I've transferred it back to Cambridge and installed it here (we're no longer allowed to install at SHSU, so we've no other option). It'll propagate. Thanks, Anders, for your continuing maintenance of the package. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Wed Aug 23 11:59:13 1995 Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:18:03 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: emTeX update I've replaced dvid16c?.zip with dvid16d1?.zip on ftp.dante.de. dvipm has been improved, some bugs have been removed, and prtfaxwk now should really work. first.zip and web.zip have also been replaced. Eberhard Mattes From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 17:35:07 1995 Date: 23 Aug 1995 16:18:03 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Hayo & Maartje Subject: emTeX update I've replaced dvid16c?.zip with dvid16d1?.zip on ftp.dante.de. dvipm has been improved, some bugs have been removed, and prtfaxwk now should really work. first.zip and web.zip have also been replaced. Eberhard Mattes (---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de) ( emtex-user archives: ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 24 20:41:21 1995 Date: 24 Aug 1995 18:25:11 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Ian Maclaine-cross Subject: Re: LaTeX CURVES Version 1.41 Upload Ian Maclaine-cross writes: > Last night I FTPed the files CURVES.TEX, > CURVES.STY and CURVESLS.STY into the directory incoming/curves/ at > ftp.shsu.edu. In my previous message, I requested they replace the > three files of the same name in directory: > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/curves/ > ^^^^^ > David Carlisle wrote to me yesterday and explained that the `supported' tree > was more appropriate since these files are annually updated, have a > manual and I answer email queries from users. > > When the files have been updated as previously requested, please would you > move the directory /curves/ to the directory tree: > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ > so that the new files will be in directory > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/curves/ > and the old files and directory will be deleted. I have installed the files as David suggested (i.e., in the `supported' sub-tree), and I have deleted the files in the `other' sub-tree. The installation has happened twice -- once at SHSU (which didn't propagate here) and once at Cambridge. I trust that propagation to other sites will happen ... we can but hope. (Oh! for admin support at SHSU...) Thanks, Ian, for your continued support of the package. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 25 06:53:11 1995 Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:32:12 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Sam Chiu Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Withdrawal of CJK-fonts Sam Chiu writes: > Last year I submitted to your archive two sets of TeX fonts for use > with the CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) LaTeX2e package. > > The CJK package is now in its version 2.5 beta6 release, and a new > mechanism is available to generate pk fonts from HBF bitmaps on > demand. I have communicated with the author of CJK, Werner Lemberg, > and we see little purpose in archiving the pre-compiled fonts any > more; especially since their documentation and definition files are > very much out-of-date (based on CJK 2.4). Pointers are now given in > the CJK 2.5 package to the alternative font files to use. > > I therefore request withdrawal of all files under: > > /ctan/tex-archive/fonts/chinese/CJK/* I've duly deleted these files, as requested. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 25 07:13:17 1995 Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:44:19 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: new tango/weevil literate programming tool minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com (Corey Minyard) writes: > I am releasing a new version of tango/weevil. This is version 1.0. > Changes are mainly bug fixes and small LaTeX extensions. I have > placed it on pip.shsu.edu; it is named tw-1.0.tgz and is tarred and > gzipped. > > If you don't know, tango/weevil (tw) is a literate programming tool. > What makes tw different? I'm glad you asked. tw is written in C and > only in C, no less-used languages. tw also supports inter-file cross > references in an easy way, allowing large system with many modules to > be built and cross-referenced. Only the C language is supported as a > language type under under tw, but other languages can be easily added. > Currently only LaTeX is supported for output, but other output > formatters can be easily added, too. Someone has done a Lout output, > but they have not finished it yet. Actually, they may be done but I > haven't bugged them about it in a while. > > As most stuff like this, tw is free software under the GPL. I have installed the stuff here (given the ... ummm ... exciting time I had yesterday trying to install things at SHSU). Given a following wind, it should propagate back withing 24 hours, but with SHSU in its present mood, one never knows. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Aug 27 16:02:46 1995 Date: 27 Aug 1995 19:57:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ryoung@utdallas.edu, George Greenwade Subject: Mangling of gtex at SHSU For some time now, SHSU has not been a full participant in the CTAN network. CTAN managers based in Europe (including me) have tried hard to maintain the archive there, over ridiculously slow transatlantic lines, but we've been frustrated by all sorts of problems. Something bad was bound to happen eventually, and it turned out that it was me it happened to. Last Thursday, I was attempting (yet again) to install the latest updates to Young Ryu's gtex package. I had failed several times to do this at SHSU, and had therefore installed the changes here in Cambridge some time back. The changes had not propagated to SHSU (despite repeated attempts to encourage SHSU to take them). I got a window of unusually good bandwidth to SHSU, and tried again: the installation failed half-way through. The end product is that there are now *two* gtex directories at SHSU, neither of which are correct, current, and up-to-date Users will therefore see the following directories in tex-archive/systems/msdos: drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp pub 1024 Aug 24 14:39 gtex drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp pub 1024 Aug 7 11:29 gtex.old... gtex/ contains the files that were supposed to be being replaced/installed anew, but they're protected against access to the general public; gtex.old.../ contains the files that were in place beforehand. If you need a current distribution of gtex, you should acquire it from ftp.tex.ac.uk or from ftp.dante.de; the slightly out of date version is available from ftp.shsu.edu, from gtex.old.../, but even some of its files have been protected. If (when) I can make contact with some systems people at SHSU, I shall attempt to get this situation sorted out: we Europeans do not currently have direct access to SHSU's archive space. If any reader of this note has direct contact with any of the systems staff at SHSU, I would be most grateful to be put into direct contact with them. Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN Team, but reporting his own mistakes...) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 21:01:18 1995 Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:36:47 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: Re: I have uploaded TeXEd10.zip hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes: > I've uploaded TeXEd10.zip. It should replace the file TeXEd099.zip > in the system/os2 directory. > > TeXEd is an OS/2 TeX-editor written in german. > > This programm is written by myself. I installed the new file as systems/os2/texed10.zip and removed the old one. Thanks -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 22:58:05 1995 Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:38:29 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Uwe Muench , ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: bfsymb.tex Uwe Muench writes: > I uploaded the file 'bfsymb.tex' at 'ftp.dante.de'. > > This macro package provides the command > \boldsymbol{...} > to typeset parts of a math formula (e.g. a greek sign (\alpha)) in the > bold cmmib10-font for the plain tex format. For latex, the amstex-package > does a much better job... > > I think, it should go into the directory 'macros/plain/contrib'... Thanks, I installed the file in the indicated place. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 21:03:18 1995 Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:44:53 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Oliver Schnetz Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Oliver Schnetz writes: > I (Oliver Schnetz) have uploaded the file ergotex.zip in the incoming > directory of the ftp.dante.de server. This file is an update (Version 1.1) > of the already existing file ergotex.zip at pub/tex/systems/msdos/ergotex. > I would be grateful if you could replace this file by the newer one. Thanks, I installed the new version For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 28 23:00:35 1995 Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:50:09 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN upload Timo Knuutila writes: > Location: ftp.dante.de > File(s): tpcmfont.tar.gz > Overview: A new version (1.1) of tpcmfont package > Placement: Currently /macros/latex/contrib/other/tpcmfont, > Hopefully /macros/latex/contrib/supported/tpcmfont some day > (or even /macros/latex/base :-]). > Uploader: Timo Knuutila > knuutila@cs.utu.fi The new versions of the files are now in macros/latex/contrib/supported/tpcmfont The old location has been removed. Thanks, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 29 02:19:05 1995 Date: 28 Aug 1995 15:53:20 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Peter Gerwinski , ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, CTAN@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Peter Gerwinski writes: > I have uploaded a directory tree EDIT-4.33 into the /incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de. I suggest to place it in the emtex-contrib directory of /pub/tex. > In particular, I have uploaded the following files: > > README short description of EDIT, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33 > install.exe MS-DOS installation utility, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > pkz102.exe the PKZIP data compression utility, called by install.exe, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > edit.zip the EDIT program itself, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > pk300.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 300 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts1 > pk180.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 180 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2 > pk120.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 120 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2 > > When you copy all three subdirectories onto one floppy, each, and you also > have the six emTeX distribution disks, there should be no problem to install > EDIT on a MS-DOS computer. Thanks, I installed everything in the palces indicated, with the exception that I called the directory edit-4.333 rather than EDIT-4.33. Rainer Schöpf > > For a short description of EDIT, a copy of the file README is included below. > > Many thanks for providing your service. > > Yours, > > Peter Gerwinski > > > --------- > EDIT 4.33 > --------- > > (c) 1984-95 Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany > > EDIT is a ShareWare program for the PC running MS-DOS or > any compatible operating system. EDIT is an easy-to-use > text processor written to act as a comfortable user > interface for TeX, preferably emTeX. The current version > (4.33) is only available in German; an English translation > is provided but will take some time. > > EDIT consists of a text editor with integrated TeX (DVI-) > previewer and printing utility. It has the special ability > to display a text editor window and a TeX preview window > simultaneously on the screen. The program is equipped with > help screens (in German) about EDIT itself and about the > most important LaTeX commands. > > The distribution consists of 3 floppy disks (3.5") to be > labeled "EDIT", "PKfonts 1/2" and "PKfonts 2/2". (EDIT > uses its own tree of TeX character sets.) For a complete > installation (together with TeX) you also need the six > emTeX distribution disks, refered as disk "emTeX 1/6" > through "emTeX 6/6" during the EDIT installation. > > To install EDIT on a MS-DOS computer just insert the disk > labeled "EDIT". Switch to that disk, start the program > INSTALL.EXE and follow the instructions of that program. > It will install the EDIT system and all necessary parts of > the emTeX distribution. > > 18. August 1995 > Peter Gerwinski > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dipl. Phys. Peter Gerwinski > Fachbereich Physik > Universitaet-GH Essen Phone: +49-201-183-2763 > D-45117 Essen Fax: +49-201-183-2120 > Germany e-mail: pege@mail.theo-phys.uni-essen.de > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Tue Aug 29 04:32:42 1995 Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:28:31 +0200 From: Anselm Lingnau Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Description of uploaded stuff I know this has been asked before, but can people *please* give some indication of what it is that they are uploading? Of the four messages I've seen today, only one gave any description of the contents at all. Normally what seems to happen is that the CTAN maintainers, pressed for time as they are, just forward the message that they've got from the original submitters -- and of course to them (the submitters) it is obvious that xyz.sty is the one that puts checkered borders around subsection headings. We out here have to try and glean this from the filename, while a short (two-line) description would go a long way in making the purpose of packages a lot clearer. Thank you, Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ......................... lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de There are 100 people out there in the world who think that science is magic for every one of us that happens to know how a toaster works. --- John Stevens-Schlick From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Aug 30 23:49:32 1995 Date: 30 Aug 1995 13:50:34 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: rcsinfo LaTeX2e package Juergen Vollmer writes: > I submitted to ftp.dante.de:/incomming/rcsinfo the following files > rcsinfo.doc > rcsinfo.ins > Makefile > README.rcsinfo > > This package is used to extract the revision and file information provided by > the RCS revision control system. > > It should be placed in the latex2e/packages/contrib hierarchy. Thanks, they have been installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From kgs@maths.uq.oz.au Tue Aug 29 21:27:24 1995 Date: 30 Aug 1995 08:59:30 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Smith Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission I know this isn't a discussion list but there seems to be something a bit odd about the following. Peter Gerwinski writes: > I have uploaded a directory tree EDIT-4.33 into the /incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de. I suggest to place it in the emtex-contrib directory of /pub/tex. > In particular, I have uploaded the following files: > > README short description of EDIT, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33 > install.exe MS-DOS installation utility, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > pkz102.exe the PKZIP data compression utility, called by install.exe, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > edit.zip the EDIT program itself, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/edit > pk300.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 300 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts1 > pk180.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 180 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2 > pk120.zip pk-fonts for EDIT, 120 dpi, > placed in emtex-contrib/EDIT-4.33/pkfonts2 > > When you copy all three subdirectories onto one floppy, each, and you also > have the six emTeX distribution disks, there should be no problem to install ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > EDIT on a MS-DOS computer. This seems to be referring to the ancient (1992 ?) distribution of emTeX which has not been available on CTAN for some time now. This hypothesis is strengthened by the inclusion of pkz102.exe which, if my memory is correct, was the version of PKZIP which came with these six disks. The current emTeX distribution occupies *seven* disks. Could we have a bit of clarification, please. Ken Smith From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 31 04:22:41 1995 Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:11:33 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Markus Neteler Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Markus Neteler writes: > > ftp.dante.de > > /incoming/ps4mf/ps4mf28.zip > /incoming/ps4mf/ps4mf28.txt > > It is an update of my >postscriptfonts to metafont conversion program< which > is placed at > > /pub/text/systems/msdos/ps4mf Thanks, I updated the version on CTAN -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 31 13:08:56 1995 Date: 31 Aug 1995 12:16:10 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, ryoung@utdallas.edu, George Greenwade Subject: Mangling of gtex at SHSU On 27th Auguest (in message <"swan.cl.cam.:072130:950827185712"@cl.cam.ac.uk>), I wrote: I got a window of unusually good bandwidth to SHSU, and tried again: the installation failed half-way through. The end product is that there are now *two* gtex directories at SHSU, neither of which are correct, current, and up-to-date [...] Since I posted my message, someone (not me, for sure) has corrected the situation. gtex at SHSU is now all present and correct; I don't know to what extent the rest of the archive there is up to date, but gtex is. Therefore, users should ignore the following advice which I added to my earlier post: If you need a current distribution of gtex, you should acquire it from ftp.tex.ac.uk or from ftp.dante.de; the slightly out of date version is available from ftp.shsu.edu, from gtex.old.../, but even some of its files have been protected. If the person who corrected the situation would care to get in touch, I would love to hear from him/her... ;-) Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN Team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep 1 11:30:46 1995 Date: 01 Sep 1995 16:02:28 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission - update of mflogo Ulrik Vieth has uploaded an update of his `mflogo' package for LaTeX(2e). It has been installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mflogo/. > This is the file `README' that accompanies version 1.5 of `mflogo'. > =================================================================== > > DESCRIPTION: > > The `mflogo' package provides access to the METAFONT and METAPOST > `logo' fonts in LaTeX(2e). It consists of the font definition file > `Ulogo.fd' and an example package file `mflogo.sty' which are both > generated from `mflogo.dtx'. > > The `mflogo' package defines the font commands |\logofamily| and > |\textlogo| to access the `logo' fonts directly. It also defines > the macros |\MF| and |\MP| for the METAFONT and METAPOST logos > in terms of these font commands, which ensures that the logos will > honour font changes just as the |\TeX| logo does and always did. > > The present release of `mflogo' (v1.5) also fixes the space factor > after the |\MF| and |\MP| logos, just as it is done for the |\TeX| > and |\LaTeX| logos in the LaTeX2e kernel or in the TUGboat macros. > > More details about internal changes can be found in the file `NEWS'. > [...] > > More details about where to get the required fonts and how to install > them can be found in the file `INSTALL'. > > > -- Ulrik Vieth (vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de) -- 1995/09/01 From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Fri Sep 8 05:04:24 1995 Date: Fri, 08 Sep 95 09:52:27 MEZ From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 2.5 beta 7 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) I've just uploaded CJK.2_5.beta7.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de; it will soon propagate to the other CTAN hosts and its mirrors (note that the incoming dir of ftp.dante.de is read only). [CJK is a LaTeX2e macro package which enables the use of CJK scripts (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) in various encodings.] Changes beta 6 -> beta 7: according to the newest LaTeX2e release, \MakeUppercase will be disabled instead of \uppercase in some cases a severe bug disabled Korean encoding the encoding switching mechanism was broken; again many \CJK@global's added some commands which should be active only in certain encodings redefined to work with the `global' option (Bg5text environment, \mj etc.) to use the Japanese DNP fonts, an encoding `JISdnp' and two size functions (`DNP' and `DNPgen') are added * a new unifying fontencoding scheme has been introduced: * max. 4 characters encoding + max. 3 characters fontencoding * examples: * JISdnp, JISpmC etc. * this change causes many files to be renamed (e.g. Uhanja.fd->Uhanj.fd); * there is also a bunch of new/redefined functions to support this: * \CJKenc * \CJKfontenc * \CJKshape * \CJKencshape * CJK and CJK* environment * SOME OF THE ABOVE CHANGES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS! CJK characters in verbatim environments will now be treated correctly by mule2cjk. Latin-encodings will still not work there hbf2gf: the collection of configuration files has been harmonized in size From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Sep 9 15:05:18 1995 Date: 09 Sep 1995 18:58:36 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Anders Svensson Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- kuvio diagram package Anders Svensson writes: > I've uploaded the bundle kuvio-p209.tar.gz to the /incoming > directory of ftp.shsu.edu. > > This contains an update to my diagram package residing in > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory > named "kuvio" and contains a complete replacement for the files > currently residing on CTAN. The old files can (one more time) > be blown away. > > The documentation now has a table of contents and I've included its > source as well as a PostScript files for A4 paper. Otherwise, the changes > to code and documentation are fairly minor. I've installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 11 11:14:59 1995 Date: 11 Sep 1995 11:01:47 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" Subject: Re: CTAN submission: custom-bib update LINPWD::DALY writes: > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > english.mbs > esperant.mbs > finnish.mbs > french.mbs > german.mbs > makebst.dtx > makebst.ins > merlin.mbs > norsk.mbs > physjour.mbs > README.v33 > spanish.mbs > > Please copy these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing ALL the older files to be found there. Done. Thanks for your submission. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 11 11:14:57 1995 Date: 11 Sep 1995 11:05:55 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr, ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: gsftopk for DOS apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr writes: > I have uploaded the archive "gsftopk.zip" to the site ftp.dante.de. > The archive contains a port of gsftopk Unix utility to MS-DOS. I suggest that > you place the archive ins the /systems/msdos subdirectory. Thanks. Your file has been installed as systems/msdos/gsftopk/psftopk.zip For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Mon Sep 11 19:31:17 1995 Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:14:20 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: emTeX update I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de. The new files should appear on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors soon. - dvid16e?.zip, replacing dvid16d?.zip: various bug fixes - tex4b.zip, replacing tex4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break), makefmt now sets the /o option if the `8bit' keyword is used - mf4b.zip, replacing mf4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break) - texware.zip: VFtoVP and VPtoVF enlarged Eberhard Mattes From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Sun Sep 24 22:16:32 1995 Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:14:20 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Hayo & Maartje Subject: emTeX update I've updated emTeX on ftp.dante.de. The new files should appear on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors soon. - dvid16e?.zip, replacing dvid16d?.zip: various bug fixes - tex4b.zip, replacing tex4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break), makefmt now sets the /o option if the `8bit' keyword is used - mf4b.zip, replacing mf4a.zip: Bug fixed (Ctrl-Break) - texware.zip: VFtoVP and VPtoVF enlarged Eberhard Mattes (---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de) ( emtex-user archives: ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 11 20:16:12 1995 Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:30:30 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk Subject: Mike Piff: Re: CTAN Archive Contributions: answers.zip I installed Mike's stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk today; it should propagate without too much trouble (since it's not too large). Robin Fairbairns ------- Forwarded Message From: Mike Piff Organization: University of Sheffield To: Robin Fairbairns Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 16:23:17 +0100 Subject: Re: CTAN Archive Contributions: answers.zip Version 2.05 of LaTeX package answers is now available on CTAN in /macros/latex/contrib/supported/answers. This package allows the keeping of solutions to problems adjacent to the relevant problems, but allows them to be moved to a remote location in the formatted output. (The text that is moved need not, of course, be a solution to a problem; that is just the commonest case.) The effect is similar to that in the TeXbook, but is much more flexible, as different user-defined classes of solution can be produced, eg, solutions, hints, etc, and several files used to contain them. New features include: - -- unlimited numbers of similar files for each file handle, allowing each chapter in a book to have its own solution file, say - -- production of a demonstrator's version in which solutions remain adjacent to the problems, by use of a single package option. Mike Piff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Dr M. J. Piff, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of %% %% Sheffield, UK. 0 114 282 4431 mailto:M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk %% %% http://www.shef.ac.uk/~ms/staff/piff %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------- End of Forwarded Message From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 12 05:52:25 1995 Date: 12 Sep 1995 09:30:42 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Signing off the list I've had two "unsubscribe" messages in my mail this morning -- such messages should *not* be sent to the list, but rather to the list control software. Send a message with the following content to listserv@shsu.edu SIGNOFF CTAN-Ann The content of the subject line of the message is ignored (it says here). For further details of what you can do with listserv, send a message with the content (just) HELP to listserv@shsu.edu Robin Fairbairns From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Wed Sep 13 02:54:49 1995 Date: 12 Sep 1995 21:09:27 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu, tex-euro@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, tex-d-l <@mvs.gsi.de:tex-d-l@dearn.bitnet> Subject: CTAN upload: dc-fonts 1.2 The version 1.2 of the Cork encoded dc fonts is now available from the CTAN sites and will propagate to its mirrors soon. The release includes the following: * Many bugfixes, including ?` and !` * The polish special letters from plfonts by Jackowsky and Rycko * Overall improved accents * A text companion font containing 105 extra symbols The sources and some documentation are placed in tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf fd-Files for LaTeX can be found in tex-archive/fonts/dc/fd There are also starter files for mf in directory ready-mf/ and tfm files in directory tfm/. You need to rebuild your LaTeX2e format with the new fd-files included to use the new version of the dcfonts, since all font names have changed. --J"org Knappen P.S. dc-fonts v 1.1 are withdrawn, except for the PostScript versions. P.P.S. You can find some documentation of the new release in the EuroTeX95 proceedings. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 13 06:24:37 1995 Date: 13 Sep 1995 09:11:03 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hafner@almaden.ibm.com Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex Jim Hafner : > I have just uploaded to CTAN (shsu/incoming/foiltex) a new version > of FoilTeX -- this one works with LaTeX2e 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3. > Below is a short announcement. Could you please propogate the new > files (foiltex.ins, foiltex.dtx and readme.flt) to > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex The update has just been installed at SHSU from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. Thanks, Rainer Schöpf > ****************************************************************** > ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0.1 for LaTeX2e ******* > ****************************************************************** > > I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for > generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX. You should find > it on your nearest CTAN in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex > > ******************* About the package *************************** > > Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX, > large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with > bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header. > > This new version (from 2.0 to 2.0.1) fixes two bugs that crept in > when the LaTeX kernel was changed in version 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3. > > Jim Hafner > ...................................................................... > IBM Research Division Phone: (408) 927-1892 > Almaden Research Center K53/802 FAX: (408) 927-3030 > 650 Harry Road e-mail: hafner@almaden.ibm.com > San Jose, CA 95120-6099 > ...................................................................... > "The history of science rewrites itself each day. We're living in days > of wonder, Simon says." Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe > ...................................................................... From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Thu Sep 14 00:02:29 1995 Date: 13 Sep 1995 11:05:13 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: [A] hyperref -> Acrobat I have just put on CTAN a new copy of my hyperref package (macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyperref). This implements, for LaTeX2e, the requirements of the HyperTeX project. If you haven't seen that, poke http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex/. You can use the results of hyperref with xhdvi, dvihps, hacked GhostView, and the NeXT viewer. This package aims to redefine all cross-referencing commands (including indexing) to make them into hypertext links, and to provide ad-hoc hypertext functionality. It also provides bibliographic back-referencing. Totally robust it is not, but it's not bad. Since my particular aim was creating Acrobat files, I have also added a complete facility for access to pdfmarks for Acrobat Distiller (assuming dvips conventions for passing literal PostScript). This is a single macro with the syntax \pdfmark[optional text for anchor]{keyword=value list} where the parameter is a comma-separated list of keyword=value pairs, and the possible keys are those listed in the pdfmark manual. brackets are added as needed, but not /. so Page=/Next Page=3 Title=Title of my paper Color=.1 .2 .3 are all legal. the last two have () and [] added silently. The optional first parameter is used to create a Rect of the right size, which is made available automatically to the pdfmark. so \pdfmark[Next Page $\rightarrow$]{pdfmark=/LNK,Page=/Next,Color=0 0 1} will expand to a pdfmark which sets up a Rect around the text and makes it a link to the next page, with a blue border. For those who *know* they want Acrobat, and are not concerned about portable dvi hypertext specials, I have provided a mode (use option "nativepdf") which redefines the basic HyperTeX macro system in terms of pure pdfmarks rather than the standard \special commands, which makes for some more flexibility. I maintain the list of links as named destinations, and Distiller just sorts it out in a pleasing sort of way. It all assumes PDF 1.1, by the way, and doesn't need dvihps (just the original dvips). So if you'd like to grab this and tell me of any major flaws, I'd be very happy. Yes it is supported, but I am not guarenteeing any behaviour. I commend anyone who is looking at this area to consider sticking to the simple HyperTeX conventions. Your documents will be more portable. Sebastian Rahtz From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 13 20:26:53 1995 Date: 13 Sep 1995 14:57:21 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, reckdahl@elaine9.Stanford.EDU Subject: Re: Uploaded documentation Keith Reckdahl uploaded a ps file that documents how to include EPS graphics in LaTeX2e. It has been installed as info/epslatex.ps The documentation explains the macros in the graphics and graphicx packages, the figure and subfigure macros, the psfrag system, and other graphics-related topics. Thanks a lot For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu Thu Sep 14 00:17:28 1995 Date: 13 Sep 1995 13:08:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Anthony Venson Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex On Wed, 13 Sep 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 09:11:03 +0200 > From: Rainer Schoepf > To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu > Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hafner@almaden.ibm.com > Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex > > Jim Hafner : > > > I have just uploaded to CTAN (shsu/incoming/foiltex) a new version > > of FoilTeX -- this one works with LaTeX2e 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3. > > Below is a short announcement. Could you please propogate the new > > files (foiltex.ins, foiltex.dtx and readme.flt) to > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex > > The update has just been installed at SHSU from where it will > propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. > > Thanks, > > Rainer Schöpf > > > > ****************************************************************** > > ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.0.1 for LaTeX2e ******* > > ****************************************************************** > > > > I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for > > generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX. You should find > > it on your nearest CTAN in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex > > > > ******************* About the package *************************** > > > > Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX, > > large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with > > bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header. > > > > This new version (from 2.0 to 2.0.1) fixes two bugs that crept in > > when the LaTeX kernel was changed in version 1995/06/01 patchlevel 3. > > > > Jim Hafner > > ...................................................................... > > IBM Research Division Phone: (408) 927-1892 > > Almaden Research Center K53/802 FAX: (408) 927-3030 > > 650 Harry Road e-mail: hafner@almaden.ibm.com > > San Jose, CA 95120-6099 > > ...................................................................... > > "The history of science rewrites itself each day. We're living in days > > of wonder, Simon says." Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe > > ...................................................................... > the permission codes on the above package files needs to be changed at shsu. -Anthony E-mail: cevens@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu cevens@csm01.eng.lsu.edu From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 14 07:00:25 1995 Date: 14 Sep 1995 10:22:33 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Anthony Venson Subject: Re: New FoilTeX version 2.0.1 on shsu/incoming/foiltex Anthony Venson writes: > the permission codes on the above package files needs to be changed at > shsu. I've done this, for this instance. We plainly need to check why this has happened and whether it's happened elsewhere (and to put it right if it has). This will happen "in due course" (i.e., when one of us gets the time). Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 18 16:16:35 1995 Date: 18 Sep 1995 15:23:41 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Jens Kloecker Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Jens Kloecker writes: > Robin Fairbairns encouraged me to submit my Caml Light program for > the generation of syntax diagrams for LaTeX. I have uploaded it > at >>ftp.dante.de<< in >>/incoming/syngen<< I installed the files in unpacked form in support/syngen Thanks a lot Rainer Schöpf > Here is a description (same as in README): > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This is version 0.3 of SYNGEN > > > OVERVIEW: > > SYNGEN is a tool for the generation of syntax diagrams in LaTeX > format from an input language similar to BNF. > > > REQUIREMENTS: > > You will need Caml Light, version 0.7 to compile the program. > Caml Light ca be accessed by anonymous FTP: > > host: ftp.inria.fr (192.93.2.54) > directory: lang/caml-light > > > CONTENTS: > > src/ the sources for SYNGEN > doc/ user's manuals > INSTALL instructions for installation > README this file > > > INSTALLATION: > > See the file INSTALL for installation instructions. > > > DOCUMENTATION: > > SYNGEN is described in: > > "Generierung von Syntaxdiagrammen mit SYNGEN", von Jens Kloecker > "Generating syntax diagrams with SYNGEN", by Jens Kloecker (english version) > > These documents are distributed in Postscript as a part of the SYNGEN > distribution. > > > COPYRIGHT: > > This program was written under the GNU Gneral Public Licence. For a copy > of this document write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, > Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. > > > AVAILABILITY: > > The SYNGEN distribution resides on sunshine.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de, > and can be accessed by anonymous FTP: > > host: sunshine.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (132.187.10.1) > directory: pub/kloecker/syngen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I actually dont know where to place SYNGEN within the CTAN directory hierarchy. > > Best regards, > > Jens Kloecker. From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Sep 18 20:57:57 1995 Date: 18 Sep 1995 19:12:15 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX graphics bundle update I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts. * There was one major bug in the graphicx package. The viewport key added in June was incorrectly coded. * The Y&Y driver support (dvipsone and dviwindo) has been largely re-written. Thanks to Berthold Horn it has now also been tested using Y&YTeX, so it might work now... * Some minor improvements to the documentation here and there. Note: As a result of the changes to the Y&Y support, the file dviwindo.def is no longer produced. (The dviwindo option is still supported but it uses dvipsone.def) If you are installing this release over an older release of these files, please delete dviwindo.def. David From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 19 07:14:15 1995 Date: 19 Sep 1995 10:47:34 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics bundle update Me> I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts. *** Please do not fetch those files! Unfortunately it appears that some old files have been updated. graphicx.dtx was supposed to have been updated to 0.6c but it has reverted to 0.6a. Probably the other files have had a similar fate. Sorry for the confusion I will mail again when it is sorted out. David From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Sep 19 08:29:54 1995 Date: 19 Sep 1995 11:30:08 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics bundle update (2nd attempt) Corrected files have now been placed on ftp.dante.de. These which reach other ctan hosts and mirrors in due course. The correct graphics files are dated 19th September on ftp.dante.de and contain the following file dates and versions: color.dtx: [1995/09/07 v0.3k Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)] drivers.dtx: [1995/09/18 v2.11 Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)] epsfig.dtx: [1995/06/23 v1.5 (e)psfig emulation (SPQR)] graphics.dtx: [1995/09/07 v0.7c Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)] graphicx.dtx: [1995/09/07 v0.6c Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)] Once again, apologies for the corrupted release yesterday. David Here is my announcement again. I have updated the latex graphics bundle on the ctan hosts. * There was one major bug in the graphicx package. The viewport key added in June was incorrectly coded. * The Y&Y driver support (dvipsone and dviwindo) has been largely re-written. Thanks to Berthold Horn it has now also been tested using Y&YTeX, so it might work now... * Some minor improvements to the documentation here and there. Note: As a result of the changes to the Y&Y support, the file dviwindo.def is no longer produced. (The dviwindo option is still supported but it uses dvipsone.def) If you are installing this release over an older release of these files, please delete dviwindo.def. David From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Tue Sep 19 18:35:05 1995 Date: 19 Sep 1995 18:23:33 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: Announcing MFjob 1.2c (emTeX) MFjob 1.2c is now available on ftp.dante.de and should be available on the other CTAN hosts and their mirrors soon. MFjob 1.2c fixes a bug which caused problems when generating DC fonts 1.2 at certain sizes. New files: mfjob12c.zip Deleted files: mfjob12b.zip Updated files: first.zip *.ENG *.GER DISKETTE.DOC -- Eberhard Mattes From rajeev@netcom.com Tue Sep 19 14:12:22 1995 Date: 19 Sep 1995 09:54:01 -0700 From: Rajeev Karunakaran Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded Hello, I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw This is a replacement for the files in tex-archive/graphics/pagedraw Regards, Rajeev rajeev@netcom.com From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 20 07:15:20 1995 Date: 20 Sep 1995 10:50:46 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Stefan Schulz Subject: Re: Upload of chemcono.sty Stefan Schulz writes: > I have > 1. uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > 2. Uploaded: chemcono.sty and example.tex in subdirectory chemcono > > 3. Description: LaTeX2e style file for using compound numbers > in chemistry documents. It works like > \cite and the \thebibliography, using \fcite > and \theffbibliography instead. It allows compound > names in documents to be numbered and does not > affect the normal citation routines. > Very helpful for writing chemistry papers. > This style does: > - Compound-numbering. Any compound gets a number > using \fcite, bold face as default. This number > is printed every time you type \fcite. > - The compounds are numbered according to the > entries in the \theffbibliography. > - The \ffbibliography generates an chapter with > the heading 'Compound numbers'. > > 4. Would suggest that the file be placed in > somewhere in /latex2e/contrib Thanks, your files have been installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemcono > Another suggestion: Why not create a subdirectory chemistry in which > all chemistry related packages could be found? This is certainly a possibility. Our problem at the moment is that none of the archive maintainers can spend the time to look through the packages to decide what is to go where. If you can supply us with a specific list of what to do, we will look into it. Regards, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 21 06:55:28 1995 Date: 21 Sep 1995 10:37:29 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- new sbtex, sbmf Wayne Sullivan writes: > I have just ftp'ed to ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming the files sb40tex.zip and > sbmf14.zip. These files are updates for sb39tex.zip and sbmf13a.zip, > which currently reside in tex-archive/systems/msdos/sbtex. This main > purpose of the upgrades is to bring the versions of the contained > TeX and METAFONT programs up to date (Knuth's files as of 30 March 1995). > > A few changes have been made. The array bounds in iniTeX have been > modified so that a format for the new LaTeX can be generated (note: > these programs use the original "small" main memory, so capacity is > limited, but they will work without dos extenders). Also the file > input mechanism has been modified so that directory search of primary > subdirectories of input and tfm directories can be used (higher order > subdirectories are not searched). Additional graphics capabilities > have been added to MF for those with VESA hardware. 800x600, 1024x768 > and 1280x1024 vesa graphics at 16 and 256 colors can be used by MF. I have moved these two files to the place suggested and removed the old versions. These changes should propagate to the other CTAN sites soon(ish). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep 22 08:35:07 1995 Date: 22 Sep 1995 13:15:19 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Claudio Beccari Subject: Re: CTAN submission Claudio Beccari writes: > I just submitted the file > rohyph.tex > that contains the hyphenation patterns for the romanian language. > I suggest that is s moved to /languages/romanian The file has been installed at ftp.dante.de from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From KRM@busieco.ou.dk Mon Sep 25 05:02:07 1995 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 08:55:34 GMT-1 From: "Kristian R. Miltersen, Odense University" Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu This is a computer generated E-mail. I am attending a symposium at Hindsgavl, Middelfart, September 25-26, 1995. I will be back at the office on Wednesday September 27 after noon. Your E-mail, subject: emTeX update: LaTeX2e patch level 3 will be answered when I return. If you have a short urgent message, then E-mail it to me with SUBJECT 'Mobile'. Your message (up to 160 characters) will then be transmitted as a text message to my cellular phone. Best regards, Kristian R Miltersen From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 25 20:13:21 1995 Date: 25 Sep 1995 16:05:45 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ULI WORTMANN Subject: Re: upload notification ULI WORTMANN writes: > I uploaded the archive dvidvi.zip which is th os2-port of dvidvi. > > Archive Name: dvidvi.zip > > suggested description: > port of dvidvi, a tool to manipulate dvi-files (layout, paginating etc) > > suggested location: > /dviware/dvidvi/os2 > > Needs: os2/2.x and the emx extender -- should work on dos, but this is > not tested > > Contact: Uli Wortmann uli@homer.geol.chemie.tu-muenchen.de Thanks a lot, the files have been installed in the places indicated. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Sep 25 21:33:52 1995 Date: 25 Sep 1995 17:07:06 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: greg@relgyro.stanford.edu Subject: Re: upload - lalaunch Gregory M. Gutt writes: > I have made a recent upload to ftp.shsu.edu \incoming\upload: > > lalaunch.exe > lalaunch.cfg > readme.txt > vbrun300.dll > > lalaunch.zip (zipped version of the above 4 files). > > The file readme.txt gives a pretty good description of lalaunch, please > read it if you would like more detail. However, here is a brief overview. > > lalaunch.zip -> LaTeX Launcher > > LaTeX Launcher is a nice simple shell utility for (Windows 3.1 or 95) > designed for use with various LaTeX packages and utilities. I have > tested it a great deal with EmTeX. > > Basically LaLaunch manages your LaTeX session, it can pass variables > to programs such as: file names, page numbers and paths. These variables > are set at run time via pop-up menus and or dialog boxes. > > The basic idea is to give an integrated feel to a latex session when > using software written at the four corners of the earth. > > Its function is similar (in function) to the DOS program TeXShell. > > If possible I would like it to be distributed with the 4alltex disk set. > If not that it should go with other LaTeX windows utilities. Thank you for your submission. I installed lalaunch as systems/msdos/lalaunch For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep 26 05:20:37 1995 Date: 26 Sep 1995 09:12:25 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission, Update Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package for > inserting hypertext-markups into latex2e documents on > CTAN://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz > It replaces the old version at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper > > Changes with respect to the old version: > Support of the class cweb.cls added. Thanks, the update has been installed. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 26 07:56:13 1995 Date: 26 Sep 1995 11:02:59 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Volker Kuhlmann writes (not the first to do so, but...): > Hi there - I got 3 of these msgs. Please be a bit more careful with > your mail forwarding and not waste so much bandwidth. Never mind :-) Please, people, don't clutter up the list with moans about these things. If nothing else, if messages are still bouncing, they'll bounce back to the list themselves, which has the potential to cause `meltdown'... In fact, I mailed the man's postmaster (since the messages said the author was away), and he seems to have sorted the problem. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep 26 08:00:57 1995 Date: 26 Sep 1995 11:32:13 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Horst Wassenberg Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Horst Wassenberg writes: > a) I uploaded four files to ftp.uni-stuttgart.de > b) these are: > beta-v20.doc old, to be deleted > beta-v20.zip old, to be deleted > beta-v21.doc readme-file > beta-v21.zip program archive > d) files (the latter two) should be placed in > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/utilities > > Sincerely yours, > Horst Wassenberg > wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de > > c) overview of intension: > > ---------------------------------- > BETA - Converter Version 2.1 (DOS) > ---------------------------------- > > About this program: > TeX is often used as the typesetting system at universities and other > scientific organisations. The present boom of the world wide web (WWW) > makes people convert existing dokuments into HTML, the language of the > WWW. This coexistence of two layout formats increases the efford of > keeping the contents correct and up to date in both formats. The new > set of commands (which is very close to HTML indeed) is a source that > can be converted into TeX and HTML. > > The introduced format is no simplification but an integration of > essential features of the two programming languages LaTeX and HTML. > > Installation: > Change to the directory where the converter shall be installed: > C:\UTIL > > Call PKUNZIP as follows: > PKUNZIP -d A:\BETA-V21 > > Further instructions can be found in: > C:\UTIL\BETA\DEMO.ENG\TEX\BETA.DVI > > or at the following web page: > http://www.iam.rwth-aachen.de/Beta/mainman.html > > license: > This program may only be distributed unchanged and complete. After > a trial period you are expected to register by sending 10 > Deutschmark or a note of your currency with similar value to > > Horst Wassenberg > Institut fuer Allgemeine Mechanik > RWTH Aachen > 52056 Aachen > GERMANY > > E-Mail: wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de > > You will get a copy with the pascal source and without a delay of > 5 seconds. There are no fees within the University of Aachen. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Horst Wassenberg Tel: +49 241 806238 > Institut fuer Allgemeine Mechanik Fax: +49 241 8888231 > 52056 Aachen eMail: wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > I installed the files in systems/msdos/utilities/beta Thank you for your submission. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE Tue Sep 26 09:44:19 1995 Date: 26 Sep 1995 12:32:05 +0100 (MET) From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote: > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the > software won't recognize my message because of a > domain change. Thanks. Me too. ! --- Guido Sawade TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 26 11:16:33 1995 Date: 26 Sep 1995 14:55:17 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner Dean Alvis writes: > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the > > software won't recognize my message because of a > > domain change. There is none. George Greenwade is the manager, but (as everyone on this list must know by now) he's inactive (and has been for around a year). If you can get a message through to him, do, but he's ignored every message I've sent for months. Robin Fairbairns From alhy@SLAC.Stanford.EDU Wed Sep 27 00:16:04 1995 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:35:29 -0700 (PDT) From: J Scott Berg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner Robin Fairbairns writes: > Dean Alvis writes: > > > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge > > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the > > > software won't recognize my message because of a > > > domain change. > > There is none. George Greenwade is the manager, but (as everyone on > this list must know by now) he's inactive (and has been for around a > year). > > If you can get a message through to him, do, but he's ignored every > message I've sent for months. You can take a shot at bamboozling the listserv into thinking you are who you used to be. Here's how it's done: Here, I send myself some mail that appears to come from Elvis: > telnet courant smtp Trying... Connected to courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU. Escape character is '^]'. 220 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Sendmail AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/SLAC 920508 ready at Tue, 26 Sep 1995 13:27:26 -0700 helo Elvis Presley 250 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Hello Elvis Presley (COURANT.SLAC.Stanford.EDU) mail from: Elvis Presley 250 Elvis Presley ... Sender is valid. rcpt to: alhy@slac.stanford.edu 250 alhy@slac.stanford.edu... Recipient is valid. data 354 Enter mail. End with the . character on a line by itself. The King Lives. . 250 Ok quit 221 courant.SLAC.Stanford.EDU: closing the connection. Connection closed. The same trick should work for CTAN; just send the signoff message to the listserv, and use the helo and from commands to give your old address. Telnet to the smtp port of a local machine (in my case, courant). Good luck... -Scott Berg -- J. Scott Berg Real mail: SLAC MS 26; Stanford University email: ALHY@slac.stanford.edu PO Box 4349; Stanford, CA 94309 phone: (415) 926-4732 (w) (415) 854-2713 (h) From aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi Wed Sep 27 04:38:06 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:01:14 +0300 From: Pedro J. Aphalo Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner On 27 Sep 95 at 2:32, root wrote: > > > > On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote: > > > > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge > > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the > > > software won't recognize my message because of a > > > domain change. Thanks. > > > > Me too. ! > > > > Me too. !!!!! > > I have answered the original message by mail, but after this 2 "me too!" messages I will repeat my answer to the list. As the list seems to be running without a maintainer at the moment, your best bet is to try to remove yourself from the list: It may be possible to UNSUBSCRIBE to the list from a different address than the one from which one has subscribed. I have used this trick before successfully, but I am not sure whether it works or not with CTAN-Announce: Just include your old address in the "Reply to:" header of your messages with commands to the list-server. I hope this helps, Pedro. . =============================================================== Pedro J. Aphalo University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry P.O. Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, FINLAND e-mail: aphalo@cc.joensuu.fi http://www.joensuu.fi/~aphalo/ fax: +358 73 151 4444 (or +358 73 151 3590) tel: +358 73 151 4406 ,,,^..^,,, ================================================================ From Thomas.Herter@mch.sni.de Wed Sep 27 05:46:38 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:25:15 +0200 From: Thomas Herter Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner l> > Errors-To: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu l> > X-Listname: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network announcements l> > Warnings-To: <> l> > Errors-To: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu l> > Sender: owner-ctan-ann@SHSU.edu l> > Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 12:32:05 +0100 (MET) l> > From: Guido Sawade l> > Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu l> > Mime-Version: 1.0 l> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII l> > l> > On Mon, 25 Sep 1995, Dean Alvis wrote: l> > l> > > Can someone please help me identify a human in charge l> > > of this list - I would like to SIGNOFF, but the l> > > software won't recognize my message because of a l> > > domain change. Thanks. l> > l> > Me too. ! l> l> I'll third this. I've been trying to get off for months. l> l> -- l> Kevin K. Lewis | My opinions may be unreasonable l> lewikk@aud.alcatel.com | but such is the voice of inspiration Hallo to all with the unable-to-remove-problem, This is the signature of the list maintainer and his remark to contact him in case of troubles. I hope this helps: If you have any questions or comments about this list, or need assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 Sam Houston State University FAX: (409) 294-3612 Huntsville, TX 77341-2118 USA Enjoy, Thomas. -- Thomas Herter email: thomas.herter@mch.sni.de +89 636-49973 100275.541@compuserve.com From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 27 06:09:35 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 09:53:38 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: qelis@aol.com Subject: Re: submitting 'tmv1095.tgz' QElis@aol.com uploaded a new dvi previewer for Linux and OS/2, which has been installed in dviware/tmview Part of the README file follows: ======================================================================== ****this is readme for dview v95.10 (C)opyright 1995 Thomas Moor************** what is dview ? dview is a screen-previewer for .dvi-files compiled by TeX. it lets you see what your printed output will look like, especially where your printer will resist to print any further. You can choose between a black-and-white representation and greyscaling. You don't need a mouse or even X-windows as dview supports neither of 'em. dview does not support pxl-files since I think they are prehistoric. dview ignores all 'special'-commands and has no font-replacing mechanism, sorry lads. there are two versions dview. one called dvipm which goes with OS/2 and uses the presentation-manager, and one called dvisvga going with linux, using svgalib v1.25 or higher. ======================================================================== Thanks a lot, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From qasar@econ.muni.cz Wed Sep 27 07:10:04 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:04:05 +0100 (MET) From: Michal Kvasnicka Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded > I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory > ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw What's that? How can I use it? For what purpose? Qasar From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 27 07:28:08 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 11:10:58 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, zaccone@bucknell.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: MakeIndex Fat Submission Rick Zaccone uploaded a Macintosh port of MakeIndex 2.13b. It has been installed in systems/mac/MakeIndex-Fat-1.0-sit.hqx > MakeIndex Fat > > This is a Macintosh port of MakeIndex 2.13b. > > Features include: > > - The program supports all of the major features of MakeIndex. > > - This is a fat binary. That is, it runs in native mode on a Power > Macintosh. It works well on a 680x0 Macintosh too. > > - It requires System 7 or greater. > > - The program is high level event aware. You can drop your .idx file > onto the application icon. If you have the "Go After Opening" option > set, the program will immediately process the file. > > - It handles large index files with ease. You just need enough memory > on your machine. It uses temporary memory, so you don't need to > increase the application size to process a large file. It should > handle low memory situations gracefully. > > - If you have the "Go After Opening" option set and you drop several > .idx files on MakeIndex, it will process each file sequentially, > producing an .ind file for each one. (If you don't have the "Go After > Opening" option set, it will open each file, and then close it when it > receives the next open request. This seems like a fairly useless mode > of operation IMHO.) > > - MakeIndex will automatically open a style file (.ist file) if one > exists. If you are processing a file called foo.idx, then MakeIndex > will automatically open a file called foo.ist if it exists in the same > folder. > > - MakeIndex knows about Apple's extended character set. It will sort > correctly even if you use accented characters and ligatures in Apple's > extended character set. > > I have tried to maintain as many functions of the Unix version as > possible. Here are a few minor limitations: > > - This program will process one input file at a time. That is, it > won't process an .idx file that is spread out over several files. You > will have to concatenate the files first. > > - When sorting, only the first 255 characters of the sort key are > significant. This should be more than enough. If this is a problem, > please let me know. > > - The MakeIndex style file (the .ist file) must be in the same folder > as the .idx file. There is no notion of a style path that points to a > folder of style files. > > - If you use the Page Number: Even, Odd, or Any option (see the LaTeX > Companion page 355), MakeIndex expects to find a .log file (produced > by LaTeX) in the same folder as the .idx file. Note that Textures > doesn't automatically create this file. If you are using Textures you > will have to save the contents of your log window and remember to call > the file foo.log if your .idx file is called foo.idx. > > Rick Zaccone > Computer Science Department > Bucknell University > Lewisburg, PA 17837 > > zaccone@bucknell.edu > August 10, 1995 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kuben@scova.vabo.cz Wed Sep 27 16:23:05 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:24:15 +0100 (MEZ) From: Jaromir Kuben Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann%SHSU.edu@earn.cvut.cz Subject: Re: PageDraw 1.7 uploaded > > > I have uploaded an update for PageDraw in the directory > > ftp.shsu.edu:/incoming/pagedraw > > What's that? How can I use it? For what purpose? > > Qasar The program is for MS Windows and allows you to draw pictures using the mouse. The output is in postscript. Text can be contained too. It is also possible to edit an arbitrary postscript file after a preprocessing with ghostscript. Jaromir Kuben From korte@sabine.acs.psu.edu Wed Sep 27 20:20:58 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:16:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Rodney R. Korte Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.TU-Berlin.DE Subject: EPMTeX 3.1 now available EPMTeX 3.1 (Standard and Pro versions), a TeX macro package for EPM 5.51a and EPM 6 (OS/2 enhanced editor), is now available! It can be retrieved from: http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/EPMTeX/ gopher://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory) ftp://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory) ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/tex/ ( currently in /incoming, ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/os2/unix/tex/ to be moved to /unix/tex ) On CTAN sites in tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtex (currently in /incoming) EPMTeX is a sophisticated *free* macro package that integrates the TeX typesetting system with the IBM enhanced editor EPM for OS/2. The EPMTeX macro suite adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar, and includes a PM style notebook program for configuration of the package. Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any format, e.g. LaTeX), jump to errors in the TeX source, preview (portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX file currently active in EPM. Custom 'user' modes may also be defined for special needs unique to the user. Due to popular demand, the standard edition of EPMTeX now comes precompiled. The version of EPM shipped with OS/2 is all that is required to run EPMTeX. It is no longer necessary to obtain the EPM macro compiler from IBM to add the core EPMTeX features. Consequently, installation is now greatly simplified. A Pro version is also included, which offers a few minor features not included in the Standard version, but which requires compiling the macros for EPM. 9/95 Jon Hacker INTERNET: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com Rodney Korte Penn State, State College, PA INTERNET: korte@sabine.psu.edu From luecking@comp.uark.edu Wed Sep 27 18:15:05 1995 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:18:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Daniel H. Luecking Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: submitting 'tmv1095.tgz' On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > QElis@aol.com uploaded a new dvi previewer for Linux and OS/2, which > has been installed in > > dviware/tmview > > Part of the README file follows: > ... > what is dview ? > dview is a screen-previewer for .dvi-files compiled by TeX. it lets you see > ... > there are two versions dview. one called dvipm which goes with OS/2 and ^^^^^! I don't think it is a good idea use the name "dvipm". That name already belongs to one of the programs in emTeX for OS/2. > uses the presentation-manager, and one called dvisvga going with linux, > ... Dan Luecking -- luecking@comp.uark.edu | "Give a man an answer, and he's Department of Mathematical Sciences | satisfied today. Teach him to University of Arkansas | program, and he will be frustrated Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA | for the rest of his life." From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Sep 28 23:20:55 1995 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 15:17:41 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CTAN update to custom-bib LINPWD::DALY writes: > Hello, > > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > merlin.mbs ---> to replace file of same name > README.V34 ---> to replace file README.V33 > italian.mbs ---> new file > > Please place these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing the file README.V33 > > Thanks, Patrick W. Daly > 1995 Sep 28 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 > Postfach 20 SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY > D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de > Germany > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The update has been installed. Thank you -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Sep 30 13:26:31 1995 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:04:24 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission Bernd Raichle writes: > b) Files: > localloc.dtx > localloc.README > > c) Brief Overview: > Reimplementation of plain-TeX's \newcount, \newdimen, etc. > macros which adds a set of macros called \lnewcount, > \lnewdimen, etc. to allow allocation of registers local to a > group. > > Can be used with plain-TeX _and_ LaTeX. > > Self-extracting docstrip archive (needs `docstrip.sty'), > LaTeX2e is needed to format the documentation. > > d) Recommended place in CTAN directory hierarchy: > tex-archive/macros/generic/ > or > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ because > LaTeX2e is needed to format the package documentation! I've installed it in the latter place, with a link from the former. Thanks -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Sep 30 20:21:45 1995 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 16:12:18 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Tilmann Boess Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ftpmaint@dante.de Subject: Re: Uploaded EPMTeX 3.1 (epmtex31.zip) Tilmann Boess writes: > I've just uploaded EPMTeX 3.1 on ftp.dante.de:/incoming, because it was > not yet uploaded from ftp.shsu.edu. I had a mail exchange with Rodney R. > Korte asking him if I should upload it to ftp.dante.de and he suggested I > should do it. I also send you the announcement for this package given on > the emTeX mailing list (see below): I installed the package at ftp.dante.de from where it will eventually propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.shsu.edu. Thanks a lot. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 15:16:52 EDT > From: Rodney R. Korte > To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de > Subject: EPMTeX 3.1 now available > > EPMTeX 3.1 (Standard and Pro versions), a TeX macro package for > EPM 5.51a and EPM 6 (OS/2 enhanced editor), is now available! > It can be retrieved from: > > http://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/EPMTeX/ > gopher://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory) > ftp://sharkbait.arl.psu.edu/ (in the OS!2 subdirectory) > ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/tex/ ( currently in /incoming, > ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/os2/unix/tex/ to be moved to /unix/tex ) > On CTAN sites in tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtex (currently in /incoming) > > EPMTeX is a sophisticated *free* macro package that integrates the TeX > typesetting system with the IBM enhanced editor EPM for OS/2. The > EPMTeX macro suite adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar, and > includes a PM style notebook program for configuration of the package. > > Menu items in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any > format, e.g. LaTeX), jump to errors in the TeX source, preview > (portrait and landscape), and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX > file currently active in EPM. Custom 'user' modes may also be defined > for special needs unique to the user. > > Due to popular demand, the standard edition of EPMTeX now comes > precompiled. The version of EPM shipped with OS/2 is all that is > required to run EPMTeX. It is no longer necessary to obtain the EPM > macro compiler from IBM to add the core EPMTeX features. Consequently, > installation is now greatly simplified. > > A Pro version is also included, which offers a few minor features > not included in the Standard version, but which requires compiling > the macros for EPM. > > 9/95 > Jon Hacker > INTERNET: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com > > Rodney Korte > Penn State, State College, PA > INTERNET: korte@sabine.psu.edu > (---> emtex-user listserver: Majordomo@physik.tu-berlin.de) > ( emtex-user archives: ftp.physik.tu-berlin.de:/pub/digests/emtex-user) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Tilmann Boess Internet: > Experimentelle Physik 1 tilmann@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de > Am Hubland > D-97074 Wuerzburg Tel.: (++49)/(0)931-888 4904 > - Germany - Fax : (++49)/(0)931-888 4906 > _________________________________________________________________________ > From l44@lrw.uni-bremen.de Mon Oct 2 15:18:03 1995 Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 14:04:32 +0100 From: Roland Weibezahn Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: ANNOUNCE: xtem X11-TeX-menu, release v. 4.16 Dear xtem users, after the tests of the beta-version of xtem version_4 this is now the final release as version 4.16 of "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl 7.4/Tk4.0) as well as with the old version (Tcl7.3/Tk3.6) (yet we highly encourage you to switch to the new Tcl/Tk/TclX release because of some desirable user interface refinements introduced in this Tcl/Tk version). Besides adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk we have done error corrections, optimizations and new features, some of them are: - file and directory selection in one menu, directory creation possible now, - radiobuttons where possible, - double mouse clicks in select boxes replaced by simple mouse clicks, - improved error messages if errors are done in the setting file printing.vst, - creation of the TeXtool buttons in the main menu optional by choice of the local administrator, - last used size and position of the xtem windows can be saved, - printer driver dvilj is added to the setting files. The setting files from older versions of xtem may be kept unchanged (mkcommand.vst excepted), thus switching from the older version (3.12) to the new release will be done easily. You will find all files on our file server: http://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html or ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.README ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu.4.16.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu_eng.ps.gz ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem/xtem_texmenu_ger.ps.gz Here you may also find the sources Tcl (version7.4), Tk (4.0), TclX: ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tcl7.4p2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tk4.0p2.tar.g ftp://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tclX7.4a-p1.tar.gz As the CTAN server ftp.dante.de mirrors our xtem-directory, you may also get all xtem-files from ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/* and the other CTAN servers. We have uploaded the new xtem version to the ALCATEL server into "incoming", so you also may get all the material from ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/xtem_* soon. For those who don't know xtem_TeXMenu up to now, we give a short overview: xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control the following facilities: - file and directory selection, directory creation, - editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples, - TeX, LaTeX, ..., - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...), - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...), - syntax and spelling check, - makeindex, - bibtex, - additional programs as required, . . . Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click. xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems. Roland Weibezahn ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Roland Weibezahn Phone : +49-421-218-3532 LRW Bremen Telefax: +49-421-218-4112 c/o University Bremen Bibliothekstr. 1 Postbox: 330440 28359 Bremen 28334 Bremen Germany email: weibezahn@lrw.uni-bremen.de WWW: http://ftp.lrw.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project) From gt@ee.latrobe.edu.au Mon Oct 2 21:38:58 1995 Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 10:27:11 +1000 From: Geoff Tobin Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: tmview update. Thomas Moor (for the moment, QElis@aol.com) has updated his tmview DVI viewer programs for OS/2 and Linux. Note that the OS/2 viewer has been renamed, to avoid confusion with Eberhard Mattes's product. Location: CTAN: dviware/tmview Geoffrey Tobin Email: G.Tobin@latrobe.edu.au WWW: http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 6 09:25:22 1995 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 12:01:33 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Ole Michael Selberg Subject: Re: The other way around - from Roman to Arabic Ole Michael Selberg writes (in private correspondence): > Talking of Roman numbers, I have the feeling that what some LaTeX-users > need is rather a set of macros that yield the Arabic equivalent of a given > Roman number. It's amazing how many people feel uncertain and confused when > they encounter Roman numbers like mcdxlix etc. The macros below, which I > wrote a couple of years ago, are supposed to solve this annoying problem > :-): I've installed these macros as CTAN tex-archive/macros/generic/arabic.tex They're not a big deal -- just a bit of innocent amusement ... but I liked them and asked if OMS minded if I installed them. R From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 7 00:15:53 1995 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 18:27:47 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Serge.Rosmorduc@lifac.ens-cachan.fr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hieroglyphics and coptic Serge Rosmorduc writes: > I have uploaded a new version of hierotex on ftp.tex.ac.uk > the files are HieroTeX.tar and Copte.tar.gz. > > HieroTeX.tar is a new version of HieroTeX. HieroTeX.tar has been unpacked and its contents have now replaced the directory fonts/hieroglyph The previous contents of fonts/hieroglyph were a series of source files, whereas the new release is a series of .tar.gz files. I have discussed this with Serge: he has taken some care with packaging the stuff, and I have installed the new version in the form he submitted it. Note that users who don't have access to gzip and/or tar can request a .zip file of the CTANs themselves -- the archives implement a dynamic .tar.gz->.zip translator. I have also installed a link from language/hieroglyph to fonts/hieroglyph > Copte.tar.gz is a new package, quite basic, intended for typesetting Coptic > texts. I've installed this, unpacked, as language/coptic > http://weblifac.ens-cachan.fr/Portraits/S.ROSMORDUC I followed this link, and found some delightful Egyptology pages... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN Team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct 9 06:33:07 1995 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:26:44 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Michael Piefel Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Piefel writes: > (a) I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b)/(c) the files are in the directory lgrind, which should now contain: > lgrind.ins DocStrip driver > lgrind.dtx Documented package > lgrindefs The language definition file > lgrind.c The source code for the LGrind executable > vgrindefs.c > regexp.c > v2lg.c Source code for verbatim to embedded source converter > retest.c Test program for the regular expression routines > lgrind.exe The executable in MS-DOS format > lgrind.1 Man-pages for the LGrind program > lgrindefs.5 and the language definition file (not tested) > doc-lgrind.lg An example file with embedded source > makefile Makefile for MS-DOS (Borland C++) > makefile.emx Makefiles for use with DMAKE (not tested) > makefile.exx > Makefile.unx Makefile for UN*X > README > > (c) The lgrind program is a pretty printer for source code files. > The package contains a style file for the necessary macros. > This package is already CTAN, but only for LaTeX2.09. > The new version is for LaTeX2e, it contains proper documentation. > The formerly included fancyheadings-package has been removed > for this is not the right place for it. > > (d) The proposed place is /support/lgrind, where it resides today. Thanks, the update has been installed. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct 9 07:17:40 1995 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:48:49 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: W.Matiaske@ww.TU-Berlin.d Subject: Re: uploads Wenzel Matiaske writes: > I have upload two LaTeX2e packages on ftp.dante.de:/incoming. > The packages are: > > o paper1e.zip 58548 4.10.95 16.20 LaTeX packages papers and journals > o thesis1a.zip 63879 4.10.95 16.44 LaTeX single and multiple author books > and reports > > Would you please store them und \macros\LaTeX2e\contrib\supported\.. > Thanks a lot. > > Best regards > > //wenzel > > -- > ___ > wenzel matiaske | / /_/-Berlin > | > | mail: Technical University Berlin > | Dept. of Economics & Management, WW6 > | Uhlandstr. 4-5, D-10623 Berlin > | phone: +49 30 314-22574 > | email: W.Matiaske@ww.TU-Berlin.de Thanks the update to the paper package and the tthesis package have been installed. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. 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Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.167 sec Device I/O: 12 Overhead CPU: 0.119 sec Paging I/O: 9 CPU model: 4341 DASD model: 3380 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 9 18:09:32 1995 Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 20:29:52 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: info-tex@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ctan@shsu.edu Subject: Downtime of ftp.tex.ac.uk Yesterday (Sunday 8 October 1995), ftp.tex.ac.uk went down at approx 1615 BST. It was at least partly up by 1830 (but I was otherwise engaged at the time and so can't say how much of it was working). At the very least, activity was hampered until some time this morning (Monday 9 October), when it sent me its last message to say it had failed to do some routine task. The archive was working when I logged in from Amsterdam at about 1130. The problem was with the power supplies: the maintenance people had been working on cooling equipment, and as a result the temperature in the machine room where the archive machine sites went out of range and the power switched itself off automatically. We lost a disc as a result of this, which holds the scripts, etc., that the archive uses in operation. Our apologies to those inconvenienced by the problems. Robin Fairbairns For the UK CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 13 20:02:11 1995 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:23:34 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- endfloat update Jeffrey Goldberg writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I have upload to /incoming on > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > The file > > endfloat.tar.gz > > This is version 2.4 (an upgrade, adding substantial flexibility) to > the LaTeX 2e endfloat package which I maintain. Details are in the > readme file. > > The contents of the gzip'ed tar file should REPLACE the material > in > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/endfloat/ > > The tar file contains four files: > > - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40 329 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.asc > - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40 81330 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.dtx > - -rw-r--r-- cc047/cc40 1065 Oct 13 17:33 1995 endfloat.ins > - -rw------- cc047/cc40 4193 Oct 13 17:37 1995 readme.enf > > If you have any questions please feel free to ask. The readme file > (readme.enf) describes what all of the other files are. > > And thanks all for running CTAN. It really has made things so > much easier for so many people. > > - -jeff > Jeffrey Goldberg > Email: J.Goldberg@Cranfield.ac.uk > WWW: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2i > > iQCVAgUBMH6ZRBu6nIqxqP+5AQFNjwP+K9x8oK8UwxtVs85vHhqQKKq9fHyHkANu > 9aZRy6QKHUXp5V2tBIstC+8F1d3FkWmVdWJQuCG/b3+Gd+jpUMj5SQs9X19cR+f2 > VpY9G0IHAPoet2vgpwEVEwRVWFv5A1oJlO3AL+hNIee5lsgvpjldTB+lhPpERy3J > qyLEYhZhDnk= > =Lqon > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I have duly installed the upgrade as requested (the signature's good ;-) BTW, please, people, don't put files into submissions with strange protections (as readme.enf in this case). The way installation happens, I don't get to notice the problem until after the failure (_this_ time I noticed: last time I installed a broken version, had to be prompted by someone else and needed to retrieve a copy from Australia). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Oct 22 03:33:09 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:19:02 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: George Gratzer Subject: New version of Gratzer's mil.pdf, etc. I've installed a new version of George's mil.pdf (and associated material) in CTAN directory info/mil. The installation was done at SHSU (and the results have propagated here, at least). George writes, about his stuff: ----------------------------- The file mil.pdf provides an introduction to LaTeX, based on the book Math into LaTeX An Introduction to LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX by George Gratzer, published by Birkhauser Boston, ISBN 0-8176-3805-9. The following parts are reproduced from the book: 1. Short contents 2. Contents 3. List of tables 4. List of figures 5. Preface 6. Introduction 7. Part I, A short course 8. Appendix A, Math symbol tables 9. Appendix B, Text symbol tables 10. Afterword mil.pdf is a portable document format (pdf) file. To view and print a pdf file, you need the Acrobat Reader. ----------------------------- Robin Fairbairns (UK) CTAN team From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Wed Oct 18 08:59:18 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 08:42:50 +0000 (MEZ) From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, soft-author@ifcss.org, linux-asia@li.org, mule@etl.go.jp Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes 2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 . Happy TeXing Werner 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 ================= the protection mechanism has been completely rewritten. Encoding changes will now work in sectioning commands too. the pseudo-\if's has been replaced with real if's to avoid problems with nested \if...\else...\fi constructions. CNS directory renamed to CEF. CEF macros CX, CY and U implemented. Font definition files for CX and CY encodings added. CEF will now work with SJIS encoding too. CEFSconv added. CNS.sty removed. Has been integrated into CJK.sty . there are now three internally used active characters: ^^80, ^^A0: used by mule2cjk ^^ff : used by CEFconv and mule2cjk. we need those characters for verbatim environments. a new internal level introduced: we now have active characters | +--------------> bindings (normal, preprocessed) <- new | active character macros | +--------------> encodings (GB, Bg 5, ...) + | font encodings (none, dnp, pmC) | subfont selecting macros | +--------------> character macro sets (standard, Big 5, ...) | character selecting macros all encodings except UTF 8 will now work in preprocessed mode too. some additional checks whether a loading of a certain binding/encoding/ character set is neccessary. a new style option has been added: `active'. If activated, bindings will be local. Default is still `local' (with global bindings). You will need this option if you want to mix preprocessed text with non-preprocessed text in nested CJK environments. This can happen if you merge texts in various encodings. the offset for the roma subfont of dnp font encoding was incorrect. watanabe (a PD replacement of dnp fonts) font encoding for JIS added. \CJKchar has now an optional parameter to select the encoding. You can also use this command with Unicode encoding; additionally you can enter characters with or without the 8th bit set (GL or GR form) except for SJIS, Bg5 and UTF8 encoding. two new size functions: `CJKsub' and `CJKssub'. They are similar to `sub' and `ssub' except that the font substitution warnings appear only once per CJK fontset. All .fd files updated. MULEenc.sty added. Will be loaded automatically after a file has been processed with mule2cjk. Latin encodings will now work in verbatim environments also. switch -g from mule2cjk has been removed. It was never necessary since `"' and `\"' in german.sty select the same macro. mule2cjk now inserts LaTeX2e macros (\textexclamdown, \textcent etc.) analogously to the latin[12].def files of the LaTeX2e distribution (where applicable) for Latin encoded characters. the batch file muclatex processes mule encoded files which contain CEF macros. Stephen Simpson contributed a Bg 5 .fd file for NTU TT fonts (ntu2cjk and ttf2pk). pinyin.sty didn't work in tabbing environments; the syllable \me was missing; the syllables \Na and \na were wrongly defined (Michael E. Deisher ). pinyin.sty now accepts DC fonts too. all .bat and .cmd files now have CR/LF pairs as newlines. .bat and .cmd batch files added for all equivalent script files in the utils directory. It might be useful to replace the TeX-coded preprocessors with these filters since they are faster. all .bat and .cmd files will call f_name.bat (f_name.cmd) to replace the extension (usually .tex) with .cjk . hbf2gf always used 300dpi resolution if used in mf-like mode (Zhang Zhengyou ). 2.4 -> 3.0 ========== Version 2.5: never released; 7 beta versions published. See file history.2_5. Version 3.0 there are too many changes to be described here in full 10-Oct-1995 detail. Please reread the various documentation files and check the file history.2_5 too. new: two contributed packages: ntu2cjk and ttf2pk. SJIS coding scheme added. * a new unifying fontencoding scheme has been introduced: * max. 4 characters encoding + max. 3 characters * fontencoding * * examples: * JISdnp, JISpmC etc. * * this change causes many files to be renamed (e.g. * Uhanja.fd->Uhanj.fd); there is also a bunch of new/ * redefined functions to support this: * \CJKenc * \CJKfontenc * \CJKshape * \CJKencshape * CJK and CJK* environment * * SOME OF THE ABOVE CHANGES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH * PREVIOUS VERSIONS! two fontencodings added: `dnp' for DNP fonts and `wn' for Watanabe fonts. four new size functions: `CJKsub', `CJKssub', `DNP', and `DNPgen'. \CJKchar has now an optional parameter to select the encoding. You can also use this command with Unicode encoding; additionally you can enter characters with or without the 8th bit set (GL or GR form) except for SJIS, Bg5 and UTF8 encoding. a new internal level introduced: we now have active characters | +--------------> bindings (normal, | preprocessed) <- new | active character macros | +--------------> encodings (GB, Bg 5, ...) + | font encodings (none, dnp, | pmC) | subfont selecting macros | +--------------> character macro sets | (standard, Big 5, ...) | character selecting macros a new style option has been added: `active'. If activated, bindings will be local. Default is still `local' (with global bindings). You will need this option if you want to mix preprocessed text with non-preprocessed text in nested CJK environments. This can happen if you merge texts in various encodings. options `dos' and `dosdebug' to makefiles added for compiling with djgpp. new keywords `design_size', `target_size', `tfm_files', and `pk_files' added to hbf2gf. If `tfm_files' (`pk_files') is `no', creation of .tfm-files (.pk-files) will be suppressed. new calling mode for hbf2gf for use with MakeTeXPK: hbf2gf configuration_file [subfont_number resolution] a modified MakeTeXPK (and maketexp.btm) added to process Chinese TrueType fonts (with ttf2pk) and CJK bitmap fonts (with hbf2gf). pinyin.sty for writing pinyin syllables with tones. \CJKtilde and \standardtilde for embedding ordinary words in CJK text. new command \CJKcaption to load a caption file. new commands \CJKCJKchar, \CJKhangulchar and \CJKlatinchar added to specify character handling (glue, discretionary). Only for UTF8 encoding needed. Default is \CJKCJKchar. various caption files (.cap) added to be used in conjunction with the KOMA-script document classes. MULE to CJK converter added. changed: the protection scheme has been completely rewritten. Encoding changes will now work in sectioning commands too. reorganization of source tree. all occurrences of utf8 changed to UTF8 including filenames. all occurrences of GBs changed to GB including filenames. * handling of intercharacter glue enhanced. Now there will * be no \CJKglue before and after a block of CJK * characters. Note that this is a visually incompatible * change to the previous versions of CJK! (See the * command \CJKtilde also.) the definition of the CEF encoding has changed; it uses now HTML-macros to identify CNS codes. Various preprocessors has been added to handle these macros. CNS.sty removed. Has been integrated into CJK.sty . if only one of the keywords `dpi_x' or `dpi_y' is given in the hbf2gf config file the other printer resolution will be set equal to the given one. the key values `on' and `off' in the hbf2gf config file are replaced with `yes' and `no'. errors: if two Big 5 environments were stacked, the Bg5text environment was defined twice causing an error (Yang Jinn S. ). \CJK@punctEnc was undefined in pmC-Bg5 environment (Yang Jinn S. ). pmC-Bg5 encoding did not work in preprocessed mode (Yang Jinn S. ). Bg5conv.tex and CEFconv.tex/CEF5conv.tex will fail under the web2c-TeX implementation because \write commands will not output 8bit characters. C programs which do the same were added. wrong \CJK@min and \CJK@max values for some encodings. some punctuation characters with Big 5 encoding had wrong offsets (Li Yu-Ray ). `global' option didn't work correctly. \CJKchar didn't work in preprocessed mode (Rob Lahaye ). all .bat and .cmd files will call f_name.bat (f_name.cmd) to replace the extension (usually .tex) with .cjk . From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Oct 22 03:33:31 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 09:57:07 +0100 (MET) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) Werner, > I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming > directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the > other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes > 2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 . CJK 3.0 ist installiert. Die alten Versionen 2.4 und 2.5 beta 7 habe ich geloescht. Danke fuer die neue Version, Reinhard -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sun Oct 22 03:38:11 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:14:45 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: TeXEdit 1.0c hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes: > now I've uploaded TeXEd10c.zip so you don't have to install any of > the uploaded 1.0b versions. (I have uploaded the english version at > hobbes). > > Whould you please be so kindly to install TeXEd10c in the directory > systems/os2 and to remove TeXEd10a.zip and TeXEde10.zip. Thanks, I've done the installation. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 17:49:00 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:32:02 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Richard Verhoeven Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Richard Verhoeven writes: > Summary info: > Submission: ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/MathSpad/ > Recommended place: /tex-archive/support/MathSpad/ > IMPORTANT: replaces /tex-archive/support/mathpad/ I removed the old directory and installed the files in /tex-archive/support/mathspad > It has recently come to our attention that the CTAN archive contains a copy > of the "mathpad" program that we are developing (in the support directory). > The version that you have is out of date and no longer supported by us. In > addition, you did not receive the software from us. > > Until now we ourselves have not wished to publicise the existence of the > system (which, by the way, we now call MathSpad in order to avoid confusion > with other systems of the same name) but have nevertheless made it freely > available from our ftp site. > > We now feel that the system has reached a sufficient level of maturity that it > can be made widely available and we would appreciate your help in doing so. > > We have created the directory "ftp.dante.de/incoming/MathSpad" in which we have > deposited a README file describing the system and the system itself. For your > convenience we have copied the README file below. We would > be very grateful if you could make this directory available to CTAN > subscribers. The support directory seems to be an appropriate place so it > would be sufficient to replace the existing "mathpad" subdirectory. > > Should you decide not to include the software in the archive we would ask you > to kindly remove the "mathpad" directory in any case. > > With many thanks for your cooperation, > > Richard Verhoeven and Roland Backhouse Many thanks for your submission. We apologize that we held a software that you did not intend for distribution. It is sometimes difficult to decide what to do with uploads. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf ------------------------------------------------------------ > README FILE MathSpad > --------------------- > > > Introduction > ------------ > > This directory contains the distribution of MathSpad version 0.50. > MathSpad is an experimental program and this is the beta release. > If you install it and encounter problems with the program, > we can't guarantee immediate help (although we'll try). A mailing > list is available to ask questions or make suggestions. > > MathSpad is a document preparation system particularly oriented to the > production of articles involving large amounts of (non-standard) > mathematical material. It is an interactive system designed to make > on-screen mathematical calculation a pleasure rather than a chore. > MathSpad generates LaTeX output. Existing LaTeX documents can be > incorporated directly into a MathSpad document, no special conversion > being required (or performed). > > The fundamental idea introduced by MathSpad is that individual users > can compose their own ``stencils'' specifying mathematical and > non-mathematical notational conventions, in particular the screen > layout and how to convert the MathSpad document to LaTeX. Fractions, > superscripts, subscripts, different fonts, different sizes, displayed > equations and lots of other mathematical (and non-mathematical) > structures can be used (and defined). > > Version 0.31 was first released in January 1994 but is no longer supported. > Version 0.31 files can be easily converted to 0.50 format, but not the other > way around. At the time of writing (June 1995) the on-line manual has been > rewritten to be completely compatible with version 0.50. This is not however > the definitive version of the manual, which should be available in the > autumn. > > > Installation > ------------ > > To install MathSpad, you need a UNIX operating system, the X window > environment, an ANSI C compiler and a C++ compiler. If you don't have them > all, you should not try to install it. > > The distribution is available in the file mathpad0.50.tar.gz . This file can > be unpacked with the command: > > gunzip -c mathpad0.50.tar.gz | tar xf - > > Having unpacked the system, the installation should be simple. The > command > > ./Install > > will check out your system, compile everything and install it in the proper > place. Afterwards, the installation problems are reported to me automatically, > so you don't have to report anything yourself and I will help you if I can. > (You can also install it without sending the message.) > > After successfully installing the program, you can test it easily with > the command > > mathpad manual > > which causes a welcome document to appear on your screen. This document > explains more about the system and how to get started. > > > > Documentation > ------------- > > The distribution contains a copy of the system manual as a MathSpad > document. It is hoped to publish the manual in book form in which form screen > dumps will be included. > > The system manual is also available for online help. You can use the 'Help' > key to get context sensitive help. If you don't have a 'Help' key, either > use xmodmap to define one or edit the file `emacs.mpk' in the lib directory. > > It is possible to produce a hard copy of the manual using the standard system > features. In order to respect our copyright you should however NOT do so. > If you would like a hard copy of the manual before its official publication > please write to us stating the purpose for which the manual will be used. > We will supply academic users and non-profit organisations with a postscript > version of the manual provided that guarantees are given that it will not be > used for commercial gain and the number of copies to be made is agreed in > writing beforehand. > > Feedback > -------- > > There is a mailing list which can be used to ask questions and to make > suggestions. To subscribe to this list, mail a message to > majordomo@win.tue.nl with the body (not the subject): > > subscribe mathpad-users > end > > You can mail the messages to > > mathpad-users@win.tue.nl > > to reach the complete group (even if you're not subscribed). > > > If you have any problems installing the program, or with its use please > report them to > > mathpad@win.tue.nl > > We will try to react as soon as possible. > > > Richard Verhoeven. > > > From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 07:08:20 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:33:36 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, J.B.Rhebergen Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission J.B.Rhebergen writes: > I have uploaded to: > > ftp.dante.de > > the file: > > faxcls.zip > > in the directory: > > /icoming/fax > > the zip file contains: > > total 130 > drwxr-xr-x 2 rheberg users 1024 Oct 11 22:01 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 10 rheberg users 1024 Oct 11 21:58 ../ > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2518 Jul 20 15:20 dviscr.dlg > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 4411 Jul 19 11:28 fax.cls > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 4250 Oct 11 21:31 fax.unx > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 8696 Jul 20 14:55 faxdoc.dvi > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 7341 Jul 20 14:55 faxdoc.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 176 Jul 19 11:23 from.fax > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2208 Jul 1 13:36 lastpage.sty > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 333 Jul 19 11:26 nb.fax > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 305 Jul 5 12:02 note.fax > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 1269 Oct 11 21:38 read.me > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 1074 Jul 19 11:28 sig.sty > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2972 Jul 18 00:59 sigdoc.dvi > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2429 Jul 18 00:53 sigdoc.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2452 Jul 20 14:59 test.dvi > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 2785 Jul 20 14:59 test.log > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 819 Jul 20 14:59 test.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 160 Jul 19 11:23 van.fax > -rw-r--r-- 1 rheberg users 8537 Jul 1 12:11 wasysym.sty > > The file fax.cls is a LaTeX2e fax documentclass. The other files are > documentation, examples and support files needed to use the fax.cls > > I suggest putting the faxcls.zip file or the unzipped files listed above > in the directory: > > /pub/tex/macros/contrib/latex2e/supported/fax/ > > > Any question can be directed to: > > Jan Rhebergen > > e-mail: > > jbrhebergen@et.tudelft.nl Thank you for your submission; I installed the unpacked archive in macros/latex/contrib/supported/fax -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 05:43:52 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 12:37:58 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, seb@balu.afp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Subject: Re: my most useless manic texhack Sebastian Brosig writes: > here I am, contributing my first file to the great big NET. Serious > buisiness. I have uploaded the file > mandel.tex > to the server > ftp.dante.de > > This could be some sort of a README file: > > ------- cut here -------- > README for mandel.tex, October 1995 > > This program isn't of much use to anyone, except the kind who like to > torture their machine, or who are interested in TeX programming (possibly > both). > > To compute an image of the Mandelbrot set isn't really what TeX was > designed for. I contribute this mainly to find whether anyone can > greatly improve on its performance by using a trick that is as yet > unknown to me. > > As a warning i shall add to all addicted programmers: I wrote this when I > really should have been studying for an exam I ended up doing really badly > in, but I found it too hard to keep my hands off it at the time. > > You need a version of TeX that is big enough to run this, it failed (for > me) on a popular PC version. It is possible to reduce the sizes > \mandeldepth, \xzize, and \ysize, to save memory. > > Have fun, and write me lots of replies, suggestions and your pre-release > version of a music sequencer written in TeX, using a daisywheel printer > as the sound output device. > > Sebastian Brosig > Applied Solid State Physics Institute > Ruhr-Uni > Bochum / Germany > > (seb@balu.afp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) It has been installed in macros/generic/mandel.tex, thank you. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From tex@esiee.fr Wed Oct 18 09:30:09 1995 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 14:50:40 +0100 (MET) From: Administrateur TeX Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) > > Werner, > > > I've just uploaded CJK ver 3.0 to ftp.dante.de (note that the incoming > > directory of this host is not readable) and it will soon propagate to the > > other CTAN hosts and its mirrors. Below you will find the major changes > > 2.4 -> 3.0 and 2.5 beta 7 -> 3.0 . > > CJK 3.0 ist installiert. Die alten Versionen 2.4 und 2.5 beta 7 habe ich > geloescht. > > Danke fuer die neue Version, > Reinhard > My german is not really fluent... but I understood this: both version 2.4 and 2.5 beta 7 have been removed, and version 3.0 was installed. -- Benjamin BAYART A French student on an English network TeX Administrator at ESIEE Administrateur TeX a l'ESIEE tex@esiee.fr bayartb@esiee.fr GEUT (Groupe des Esieeens Utilisateurs de TeX) alias TUGE (TeX User Group of ESIEE). From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 07:34:08 1995 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:01:33 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.3 Juergen Vollmer writes: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.3 > the following files > THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.3 > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > Makefile > README.draftcopy > > which replace my former package (revision 2.0). > > Changes since 2.0: > I added now all languages supported by the babel package, even not for all > language a traslation of the DRAFT is given (the english DRAFT is used > instead) ((STill I'm locking for volunteres)). Added Makefile, fixed docu. > > Here's a short description: > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file > `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/contrib/supported' hierarchy. In installed the update. Just for the record: the real name of that hierarchy is macros/latex/contrib/supported macros/latex2e is a link. > in my last email I announced the draftcopy 2.3 package, I realized that the > permissions of the files are not correct: "other" can't read it. This is correct. The files in the incoming directory are not supposed to be read by anonymous users. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Oct 21 12:32:18 1995 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:07:39 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: " (v.bruhn)" , ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (v.bruhn) writes: > >Your message should (a) state which site you have uploaded to (b) > >state what file(s) you have uploaded, (c) include a brief overview of > >what the file(s) is/are intended to do, and (d) [optionally, but > >urgently requested] where you recommend placing your submission within > >the CTAN directory hierarchy. > > > > > (a) ftp.dante.de/incoming > > (b) texed.zip > > (c) texedit is a texshell for win31 especially for german users. > > the following text is included in "texed.zip" as "readme.txt": > der folgende text ist als "readme.txt" in "texed.zip" enthalten: > > ================= > Was ist Texedit ? > ================= > > > Texedit ist eine PD-Texshell fuer Windows 3.1 mit dem Grundkonzept: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "So einfach wie möglich": > > ein "notepad", dass Umlaute in ASCII speichert und > Tex und Dviwin aufruft. > > Das Menue ist auf das notwendigste beschraenkt. > Tex - und Dviwin - Aufruf sind direkt erreichbar. > > > > > Weitere Features sind: > ---------------------- > > "Fehlersuche": > > Fehlersuche in der Log - Datei mit einem Zusatzprogramm. > > > "Geteilter Bildschirm": > > Texedit belegt standardmaessig die untere > Bildschirmhaelfte. Die obere Bildschirmhaelfte ist fuer Dviwin, > Dateimanager usw frei. Auf Toolbar und untere Bildlaufleiste wurde > verzichtet, um das Fenster nicht unnoetig zu verkleinern. > > > "Fester Umbruch": > > wenn automatischer Umbruch gewaehlt ist, wird unabhaengig von der > Fenstergroesse eine einstellbare Zeilenlaenge umgebrochen. > Textformeln werden nicht umgebrochen. > > > "Inverse Search": > > die inverse Suche von Dviwin wird unterstuetzt: doppelklickt man im > Previewer an eine beliebige Stelle, so springt man an die > zugehoergie Stelle im Quelltext. > > > > > (d) \pub\tex\systems\msdos\emtex-contrib > > (noch besser wuerde ich die Einrichtung eines Pfades > > \pub\tex\systems\msdos\windows > > finden) > ----- > Volker Bruhn > bruhn@math.uni-kiel.de > Mathematisches Seminar der Universitaet Kiel > Thank you for your submission. Your zip file and readme.txt have been installed in systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/texed -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Oct 19 00:38:36 1995 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 16:58:42 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Werner Lemberg , CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission Werner Lemberg writes: > I've just uploaded a set of 300 and 600 dpi .pk fonts for Korean Hangul > in the hangul_fonts subdirectory on ftp.dante.de . Since they are intended > for use with the CJK package I suggest to install them in the fonts/korean > dir with a soft link from language/chinese/CJK. > > The 300dpi tar files are equivalents to the han and han1 zipped emTeX > font libraries (but adjusted to the web2c dir structure); the 600dpi > are new. Installed in fonts/korean/hangul_fonts with a link from language/chinese/CJK/hangul_fonts > I suggest to unpack the tarred archive as with the previous version. Done. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From sawade@physik.TU-Berlin.DE Fri Oct 20 05:01:35 1995 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 08:40:51 +0100 (MET) From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: help identify owner On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Hynek Mlcousek wrote: Some weeks ago I got a tip to set the 'Reply-To' field to the old address for the 'unsubscribe' mail. It worked perfectly. --- Guido Sawade TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Oct 26 03:53:39 1995 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 12:36:29 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: "SIMONS, DON" Cc: mutex@stolaf.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: PMX: A preprocessor for MusiXTeX Don Simons writes: > I have just made available a new preprocessor for MusiXTeX. It > is rather limited in scope: it can process scores with 1 to 5 voices, > one voice per staff (so it will make single-line parts). It has a > very simple input language, and can save lots of time by doing ALL the > work involved in setting up notes/enotes groupings, selecting groups > of notes to be beamed, defining beam heights and slopes, inserting > extra spaces where needed to make room for accidentals, justifying > lines, and spreading the entire piece evenly over a specified number > of systems. > > The program is written in FORTRAN. It requires two passes. I > have uploaded all the necessary files to ftp.shsu.edu (the CTAN > archive). I don't know how long it will take for the files to be set > up there. I have suggested they be put in directory > tex-archive/support/pmx. I also will ask Werner Icking to put them on > his server at ftp.gmd.de, under music/musixtex/software. If you are > using a DOS system, then all you need to download is pmx.zip; it > contains all the files including executables. If you are on a > different platform, you will have to download all the other individual > files (ASCII) and compile the two FORTRAN source files. > > I've tailored PMX to suit my own particular interest, Baroque > chamber music. I've used it to typeset several hundred pages of > music. I hope anyone who tries it out will let me know what they > think. > > --Don Simons (dsimons@logicon.com) I have installed the latest version of pmx on CTAN at support/pmx, as Don requested. The installation was done at ftp.tex.ac.uk (this is easiest thing for me to do, since it doesn't involve transatlantic telnet, which is even more troublesome than is transatlantic ftp); however, there is a finite possibility that the installation won't make it to SHSU. I'll try and keep an eye on it, and if necessary will try again after the week end. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 27 14:05:13 1995 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 15:59:07 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: o.pretzel@ma.ic.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- section.sty Oliver Pretzel writes: > I have just uploaded a LaTeX style file > SECTION.STY > to ftp.tex.ac.uk > > This file modifies the standard style files article, book, report so > that sectioning commands contain a number of hooks enabling a user to > set consistent styles in the preamble of a document. > > For instance it is possible to place a full stop after section > numbers if so desired, or to change the font and position of section > headings. > > The file is (almost) transparent to the standard files, and does not > itself change the layout of section headings. > > However, > 1. The preskips, postskips and indents of sections are held in > registers and so do not react to size changes (consistent with the > treatment of fonts and layout) --- This can be changed by the user. > > 2. For negative indents the heading itself starts flush with the > margin while the number is outdented. This behaviour can be changed > by changing one macro (explained in documentation) > > 3. If \thesection=\empty then the section counter is not incremented, > but table of contents is enanabled and for positive indents the > heading starts where the section number would occur (not 1 \quad > further in) > > The file is extensively documented after \indinput. > > It appears to work with LaTeX of all flavours including LaTeX2e, but > it is not written in LaTeX2e style. > > If accepted it should be placed in the /contrib subdirectory of > /latex, /latex209, and /latex2e. > > I have used versions of the file for several years and have found it > stable and useful. I hope others do so also. > > PS Of course `section' means everything from part down to > subparagraph. I have installed section.sty in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc (and installed a link to it from latex209/contrib/misc). Oliver is willing to support the package, but marking it as `supported' would have required a new contrib/supported/misc directory, which I was loath to create. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 1 06:37:42 1995 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:16:56 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: rjl@eng.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Uploaded afm2pfm.zip Russell Lang writes: > I have uploaded ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/incoming/afm2pfm.zip > > This is to replace > ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pfm2afm/afm2pfm.zip > > The following file should be removed since it is incorporated in the > new afm2pfm.zip > ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/pfm2afm/unix.patches I have installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk; being a modest sort of file, it ought to propagate back to SHSU pretty happily. (I've also deleted the patches file, but not README.html) Robin Fairbairns (For the CTAN team) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 3 20:01:09 1995 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:22:03 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: zaccone@bucknell.edu Subject: Re: Spanish Dictionary Rick Zaccone writes: > I've just placed a Spanish Dictionary in your incoming directory. This turned out to be ftp.shsu.edu's incoming directory. Please note, folks, that the mailing address ctan@shsu.edu reaches *all* the CTAN admins, not just George Greenwade (which is just as well, in the present circumstances). > It's for the Macintosh speling checker Excalibur. The file is called > Spanish_Dictionary.sit.hqx. Here's a copy of the README file that > comes with it. I suggest that you put this file in the following > directory: > > tex-archive/systems/mac/support/excalibur I have installed the file as requested. I presume this readme file is in the .sit.hqx? Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. > L\'EEME: Acerca del diccionario en espa\~nol. > > El archivo que acompa\~na a este documento es un diccionario en espa\~nol > para TeX dise\~nado para ser usado en Macintosh con Excalibur (ver *). > > La recopilaci\'on de 247049 palabras que constituyen este diccionario > est\'a en formato de "7 bits" con notaci\'on de TeX. Esto es, se utilizan > las siguientes combinaciones de caracteres para las letras no inglesas: > > (1) \'a para a acentuada > (2) \'e para e acentuada > (3) \'{\i} para i acentuada > (4) \'o para o acentuada > (5) \'u para u acentuada > (6) \"u para u con di\'eresis > (7) \~n para n con tilde > > Estas son las \'unicas letras que se usan en espa\~nol pero no en > ingl\'es. Puede modificarse f\'acilmente el diccionario para > transformarlo en uno de "8 bits", cualesquiera que sean los c\'odigos > ASCII de las letras no inglesas, seg\'un la m\'aquina usada. Asimismo, > se puede cambiar si se desea la combinaci\'on de s\'{\i}mbolos usada en > TeX para la i acentuada. > > El diccionario en espa\~nol ha sido elaborado por > Juan L. Varona > Dpto. de Matem\'aticas y Computaci\'on > Universidad de La Rioja > Edificio J. L. Vives > Calle Luis de Ulloa s/n > 26004 Logro\~no, SPAIN > e-mail: jvarona@siur.unirioja.es > > Este diccionario y la colecci\'on de palabras que contiene pueden > distribuirse, modificados o no, sin ninguna restricci\'on, siempre que > no se omita una referencia al autor y esta rese\~na (modificada, si es > necesario, indicando los cambios efectuados en el diccionario). Asimismo, > puede usarse como base para cualquier otro programa, comercial o no, con > dos \'unicas condiciones: > (1) Que en el citado programa se reconozca, en un lugar visible del > programa o del manual, la procedencia del diccionario. > (2) Que se env\'{\i}e al autor por correo ordinario un certificado > indicando que esta colecci\'on de palabras ha sido usada para la > construcci\'on del nuevo programa. > > Estas condiciones s\'olo tienen objetivos curriculares y de > reconocimiento al trabajo realizado, as\'{\i} como poder seguir si > ha sido de utilidad para otros desarrollos. He empleado un mont\'on de > horas en recopilar este diccionario y me gustar\'{\i}a saber que no ha > sido un tiempo malgastado. > > Por lo que conozco, no hay ning\'un otro diccionario en espa\~nol para > ordenador que no sea comercial y que sea lo suficientemente amplio, > al menos con formato ASCII de lista de palabras. As\'{\i} que espero que > este diccionario resulte \'util a la mayor cantidad de gente posible, y > que pueda servir como base para futuras mejoras. > > Por favor, si alguien detecta alguna errata, que me lo comunique a la > direcci\'on jvarona@siur.unirioja.es. Estoy seguro de que hay montones de > palabras reconocidas por la Real Academia Espa\~nola de la Lengua, o no > reconocidas pero usuales, que no aparecen en el diccionario. Parece > imposible elaborar uno lo suficientemente completo pero, si alguien > descubre alguna palabra muy usual no recogida en el diccionario y me lo > comunica, la aa\~nadir\'e en futuras mejoras. > > Si alguien desea el diccionario en un formato distinto al de Excalibur, > que se ponga en contacto conmigo. Los genios que mandan en el > Servicio Inform\'atico de mi universidad no permiten el acceso a > nuestras m\'aquinas desde fuera de la propia universidad (por motivos > de seguridad, seg\'un dicen), as\'{\i} que yo no puedo hacerlo > disponible por ftp "anonymous" o m\'etodo similar. > > * Excalibur es una aplicaci\'on de Macintosh para chequear textos en > LaTeX (y plain TeX) programada por Robert Gottsall y Rick Zaccone (para > contactar con \'el, usar zaccone@bucknell.edu). Puede conseguirse por > ftp "anonymous" en el directorio /pub/mac de sol.eg.bucknell.edu. > All\'{\i} mismo, en el directorio Excalibur-dictionaries, se encuentran > disponibles diccionarios en otros idiomas. > > > ================================================================== > > > README: About the Spanish dictionary. > > > The file that accompanies this document is a Spanish dictionary for > TeX which has been designed to be used in a Macintosh with Excalibur > (see *). > > The collection of 247049 words which constitute this dictionary is > in a 7 bit format with TeX notation. That is, the following character > combinations are used for the non English letters: > > (1) \'a for accented a > (2) \'e for accented e > (3) \'{\i} for accented i > (4) \'o for accented o > (5) \'u for accented u > (6) \"u for u with a dieresis > (7) \~n for n with a tilde > > These are the only letters which are used in Spanish and not in > English. The dictionary can be easily transformed into an 8 bit > dictionary, no matter which are the ASCII codes of the non English > letters in the machine to be used. Also, the TeX sequence for > the accented i can be changed if desired. > > The Spanish dictionary has been elaborated by > Juan L. Varona > Dpto. de Matem\'aticas y Computaci\'on > Universidad de La Rioja > Calle Luis de Ulloa s/n > 26004 Logro\~no, SPAIN > e-mail: jvarona@siur.unirioja.es > > This dictionary and the collection of words that it contains can be > distributed, modified or not, with no restriction, provided a > reference is made to the author and also to this description > (modified is necessary to point the changes made in the dictionary). > Also, it can be used as a basis for any other program, either > commercial or not, with just two conditions: > (1) The origin of the dictionary should be recognized in a > visible place of the program itself or the manual. > (2) A certificate should be submitted to the author by ordinary > mail indicating that this collection of words has been used to > construct the new program. > > These conditions have only curricular purposes and of acknowledgment > to the author's work. They will also allow him to find out if it has > been useful elsewhere. I have spent quite a lot of time in compiling > this dictionary and would be pleased to know that it has not been a > wasted time. > > As far as I know, no other large enough, non commercial Spanish > dictionary is available for a computer, at least in the format of a > list of words in ASCII. So I hope this dictionary will be > useful to as many people as possible and will serve as a basis for > eventual improvements. > > If you detect any mistake, please tell me at the e-mail address > jvarona@siur.unirioja.es. I am sure that lots of words which have > been admitted by the Real Academia Espa\~nola de la Lengua do not > figure in the dictionary. It looks impossible to elaborate a complete > enough one, but if you find that some usual word is not present in > the dictionary, please tell me and I will add it in future > improvements. > > If you want this dictionary in a format different to the Excalibur > format, please contact me. Those good-for-nothing people who rule the > Computer Center in my university do not allow the access to our > machines from out of this university (for security reasons, they say), > so I can not make the dictionary available by "anonymous" ftp or > something like that. > > * Excalibur is an application for Macintosh to check texts in LaTeX > (or plain TeX) programmed by Robert Gottsall and Rick Zaccone (to > contact him, use zaccone@bucknell.edu). It is available through > "anonymous" ftp in the directory /pub/mac of sol.eg.bucknell.edu. > Also there, in the directory Excalibur-dictionaries, some > dictionaries for other languages can be found. From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Nov 1 09:03:24 1995 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:56:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: hull@cs.uiuc.edu, kahn@math.toronto.edu, mackay@cs.washington.edu, dlaser@sable.ox.ac.uk, 71172.524@CompuServe.COM, karl@cs.umb.edu, alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk, karl@cs.umb.edu, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk Subject: updates on CTAN to psnfss I have just reinstalled the fonts/psfonts/tools directory on CTAN; this comprises the fontinst etc sources used to create the metric files on CTAN, and the PSNFSS package. changes: a) (thanks to David Hull) Lucida small caps now works properly b) the Lucida setup now deals with Greek in a consistent, if not correct, way. $\mathbf{\Sigma}$ now produces a Sigma, but isnt bold! (this is explained in lucida.dtx) c) the Monotype Times/Lucida package is changed so that it *does* get the above right these may sound small changes, but they make me happy. shortly i will add a rather major change, viz generation of text companion fonts all over the shop. Sebastian Rahtz From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Nov 1 10:16:28 1995 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:03:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: tanmoy@mmm.lanl.gov, doyle@mmm.lanl.gov, m.GOOSSENS@CERN.ch Subject: update of hyperref package, PDF etc I have installed a new release of my hyperref package on CTAN. This provides LaTeX2e support for the HyperTeX project conventions. That part is unchanged, but I have enhanced the Acrobat "nativepdf" support part of the package, which avoids the need for dvihps and provides facilities not yet available by that route. The pdfmark support is now up to what Acrobat 2.1 can provide; specifically, URLs in links are now translated to web links correctly (if you aint got 2.1, dont use it!). links to other PDF files work too. it does what you expect (I hope). For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me Sebastian Rahtz From doyle@mmm.lanl.gov Thu Nov 2 18:54:13 1995 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:38:57 -0700 From: Mark Doyle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Cc: doyle@mmm.lanl.gov, m.GOOSSENS@CERN.ch, tanmoy@mmm.lanl.gov Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc Hi, >I have installed a new release of my hyperref package on CTAN. This >provides LaTeX2e support for the HyperTeX project conventions. That >part is unchanged, but I have enhanced the Acrobat "nativepdf" support >part of the package, which avoids the need for dvihps and provides >facilities not yet available by that route. Sounds good Sebastian. dvihps has been upgraded though (well, a few small bug fixes and a new hps.pro by Tanmoy), so it now does all of the web links and links to other files. It won't offer as fine control as you package I'm sure, but it will automate a lot of stuff... It is on our server at ftp://gita.lanl.gov/people/doyle/ or http://nqcd.lanl.gov/people/doyle . >The pdfmark support is now up to what Acrobat 2.1 can provide; >specifically, URLs in links are now translated to web links correctly >(if you aint got 2.1, dont use it!). links to other PDF files work >too. it does what you expect (I hope). Same for the lastest version of dvihps and hsp.lpro. But the intelligent hps.lpro will try to do the right thing for however one is using the PS file (specifically, on a printer it will be treated as regular PS, on a version of the distiller less than 2.1 it won't try and use the new pdfmarks and will compensate for the deficiencies of the 1.0 distillers as well, and will work in Tanmoy's hacked ghostview correctly). But dvihps doesn't offer the same flexibility... Cheers, Mark From tim@maths.tcd.ie Wed Nov 1 18:53:09 1995 Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 16:45:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Timothy Murphy Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc > > For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF > documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me I'd be interested to learn about this. Tim From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov 2 17:37:29 1995 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:34:42 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN sumission of achemso (update) matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > a minute ago i uploaded to ftp.dante.de in /incoming/achemso the two > files achemso.dtx and achemso.ins . these files make up an update > of my LaTeX(/BibTeX) package achemso and are to replace the *files* > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso/achemso.dtx > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/achemso/achemso.ins > leaving the other files in the directory intact. > > the achemso package is a LaTeX/BibTeX package for formatting > references according to the standards of most journals of The American > Chemical Society. today's update includes a call for the 'overcite' > package by Donald Arsenau which makes handeling of multiple references > very easy. the user interface and the .bst files in the package have > not changed since the previous version. I installed the updated version as requested. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Nov 2 16:10:18 1995 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:41:35 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@shsu.edu, raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission Bernd Raichle writes: > I have uploaded the following file to > > (a) ftp.dante.de > > (b) hypht1.tex > > (c) Generic hyphenation patterns for T1 encoded fonts to be loaded in > addition to the set of hyphenation patterns for each language. > It consists of patterns for the character `-' which is different > from \hyphenchar\font in V1.2 of the DC fonts. To allow the > correct hyphenation _at_ `-' for these fonts it's necessary to > make `-' a word constituent and include appropriate patterns. > > (d) tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ Installed as requested. Thanks. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 2 20:31:28 1995 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 14:44:59 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Nelson H. F. Beebe Subject: Re: TUGboat biblio Nelson Beebe writes: ====== It has been next to impossible to contact George Greenwade at Sam Houston State to deal with the out-of-date bibliographies, and bibliography tools. Perhaps instead of Cambridge and Stuttgart mirroring FROM Huntsville, they should mirror TO. I've just sent Barbara Beeton a note asking for an updated table-of-contents file for TUGboat; the last data I have is for Sep 1994 (v15 n3). In the meantime, I've just deposited on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming two files: - -rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe staff 1233330 Oct 27 09:26 tugboat-bibliography.tar.gz - -rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe staff 730783 Oct 27 16:08 tugboat-kwic.tar.gz The files in the second are named (somewhat unhelpfully) kwic.*; tugboat-kwic.* would be better, so that is what I called the tar file. Just go ahead an rename them for the CTAN archive. I don't know what the CTAN policies are regarding compression (.gz vs. .Z) and PostScript are, so I've just provided everything that I think might be useful: % tar tvfz tugboat-bibliography.tar.gz - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 344122 May 22 13:28 1995 tugboat.bib - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 4858 May 22 13:33 1995 tugboat.def - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 471124 Sep 1 08:51 1995 tugboat.dvi - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 2395 May 22 13:36 1995 tugboat.ltx - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 442869 Sep 9 22:25 1995 tugboat.pdf.gz - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 551238 Sep 1 09:05 1995 tugboat.ps.gz - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 8871 May 22 13:13 1995 tugboat.sok - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 158156 Sep 1 08:49 1995 tugboat.twx % tar tvfz tugboat-kwic.tar.gz - -rw-rw-r-- beebe/staff 540720 Oct 27 09:27 1995 kwic.dvi - -r--r--r-- beebe/staff 1309 Nov 14 14:59 1988 kwic.ltx - -rwx------ beebe/staff 985231 Oct 27 15:54 1995 kwic.pdf - -rwx------ beebe/staff 716709 Oct 27 09:37 1995 kwic.ps The .ps files use the BaKoMa Type 1 outline Computer Modern fonts, and the .pdf files were produced on an Apple Power Macintosh by Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2.0 from the .ps files. I tried to make a version of the .pdf files using Times-Roman fonts, since that would avoid the need to embed fonts, but we've not yet had time to get our large collection of .pfa / .pfb moved over the Macintosh where Distiller runs, in a form that the Mac can find them (the old resource/data fork nonsense), so Distiller croaked when it could not find the needed files. I can get around this by modifying psfonts.map to force downloading of the fonts into the .ps file by the DVI drivers, but for now, I have other things that are more important. We are promoting PDF files here as a good way to view PostScript output, and I've converted all of our public PostScript files to PDF form (both those in local documentation directories, and also in the ftp.math.utah.edu tree), and we routinely use hypertext links in WWW documents that point to PDF files, with the browser mailcap files augmented with a line application/pdf; /usr/local/bin/acroread %s and the mime.types file with a line application/pdf pdf so that acroread is automatically launched to view the files. Publicly-available readers are available now for DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Sun SunOS, Sun Solaris, HP HP-UX, SGI IRIX, and other platforms will follow over the next few months. For the missing platforms, we just use a script that launches acroread on another public UNIX system where a native binary exists. The latest Aladdin ghostscript program can convert PDF to PostScript, and view PDF files; I anticipate that a future release will support going from PostScript to PDF, thereby giving us an alternate to Adobe's Distiller product, which is quite expensive on UNIX platforms. ====== I have installed the contents of both savesets to replace directory digests/tugboat/biblio; as Nelson suggested, I renamed the kwic.* files to tugboat-kwic.* The installation happened at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course, and I've switched off mirroring from SHSU. We still have work to do in that area to keep CTAN going... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From dak@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE Thu Nov 2 14:28:17 1995 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 20:00:16 +0100 (MET) From: David Kastrup Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc > > > > > For those who care, I now understand how to make landscape PDF > > documents (ie slides) properly. if you want to know, contact me > > I'd be interested to learn about this. Too bad, I'm afraid it was not me who wrote the quoted stuff above. As first guess, I'd try using the standard package lscape.sty. Good luck! From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Nov 3 10:33:12 1995 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 09:15:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: update of hyperref package, PDF etc David Kastrup writes: > Too bad, I'm afraid it was not me who wrote the quoted stuff above. > As first guess, I'd try using the standard package lscape.sty. > we are getting mixed up here. people shouldnt reply to CTAN-ANN about things people say in messages. *I* know about landscape PDF, and people should email me direct. (for the record, its all to do with using setpagedevice to kick Distiller) sebastian From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 3 13:33:18 1995 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 16:47:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Pierre MacKay Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New version of ibygrk Pierre MacKay writes: > I have just put ibygrk.tar.gz on ftp.shsu.edu in the /incoming > directory. > > This package should completely replace all parts of ibygrk that > are now on the CTAN archives. I have duly installed it as such at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it may take some time to propagate back to SHSU. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Nov 3 14:01:16 1995 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 18:36:11 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: supertabular update An update to the supertabular package has been installed on CTAN, in macros/latex/contrib/supported/supertabular The README file is appended. --- This is the supertabular bundle. It defines the supertabular and supertabular* environments. They make it possible to have a tabular that spans multiple pages. Each page is its own tabular environment, thus the various parts may have different widths. If that is not what you want you should check out longtable.sty, written by David Carlisle. It is part of the array bundle. For a more elaborate description of supertabular and a comparison with longtable, see The LaTeX Companion, by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin, ISBN 0-201-54199-8. This files contain in this bundle are listed in the file MANIFEST The file supertabular.doc is not yet in good shape to be processed with FMi's doc option. Supertabular can be used with LaTeX2e us a package. From mackay@cs.washington.edu Sat Nov 4 16:06:34 1995 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 11:49:58 -0800 From: Pierre MacKay Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: New version of ibygrk Many thanks. Incidentally, would it be possible to pursue the elusive "Porson Greek Superfont" with Monotype? The North American versions of Porson are simply not usable, which leaves only Linotype Times Ten Greek (dull) and the new Greek Font Society fonts (not really finished yet, and only in Didot and Bodoni styles). -- %=======================================================================% | N O T I C E | | Please note the changes in address and telephone number below. | | There is no Northwest Computing Support Center any longer. | | Until further notice, I shall be continuing to provide tape | | distributions and whatever other services I can. | | | %=======================================================================% Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software may be sent To: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Department of Classics Emeritus Druid for Denny Hall, Mail Stop DH-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-2268 (Message recorder) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Nov 6 03:58:52 1995 Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 09:52:18 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Guido Sawade Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: dvips558.pc (V2.5) Guido Sawade writes: > > I have just uploaded onto ftp.dante.de: > /incoming/dvips558.pc: dvips.doc dvipssrc.zip dvipsfnt.zip dvipsini.zip > > The files should replace the old versions in > /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc/ > > Please remove the 'backup' > /pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips558.pc.old > which is really obsolete. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > Brief description > -------------------------------------------------------- > This is version 5.58 of dvips in a port for pc compatible > computers under DOS, Windows or OS/2 (my version count 2.5). > > It matches emTeX's directory structure but is easily adopted > for other TeX distributions as well. > > The main features of this port are > > - creates HyperPostscript (dvihps by Mark Doyle) > > - Supports recursive file search like emTeX do (real '!!' for the first time) > > - configuration is more easy ('unzip and run' with emtex) > > - PSNFSS hints and fontmap added. > > - Debugging option improved (Missing fonts message more clear, detailed > file search report, replacing of values by environment variables > mentioned, redirection of stderr to a file for DOS people) > > - 32bit and 16bit executables included > -------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > Guido Sawade > TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG > The files have been installed ass requested. Thanks. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 7 10:23:06 1995 Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 09:49:45 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Donald Arseneau Subject: Re: wrapfig.sty Donald Arseneau writes: > I finally got around to fixing wrapfig, and uploaded a new version. > This replaces the one in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc. I have replaced the version in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc with this new version (since you've not said anything about it, the 2.09 version still hangs around). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Nov 8 00:48:24 1995 Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 18:51:45 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, john leis Subject: Re: CTAN Submission john leis writes: > I have submitted a file latexcad.zip to ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming. > The details are as follows: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Package: LaTeX-CAD > Author: John W Leis, email leis@usq.edu.au > File: latexcad.zip , 440 104 bytes, pkzip 2.04g > Platform: Microsoft Windows 3.1, 3.11 > Documentation: Readme file + more extensive Postscript and DVI > documentation on installation and use. > Purpose: Allows complicated line drawings to be constructed and > edited visually, and the resulting output is easily > incorporated into LaTeX. Can also edit > GnuPlot graphs. > Placement: Suggest systems/msdos or graphics/picture directories. > in the tex archive (ctan) > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > john > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Leis Phone: 076 312 551 > Faculty of Engineering & Surveying Fax: 076 312 526 > University of Southern Queensland email: leis@usq.edu.au > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks a lot. I put the zip file into the directory systems/msdos/latexcad -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 8 05:36:33 1995 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 09:57:18 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: David Carlisle Cc: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: longtable/tabularx merger David Carlisle writes: > Finally decided it was easier to write a merged version of > tabularx/longtable than to explain again that there was not such a > thing. > > on ftp.tex.ac.uk incoming/ltxtable.tex > > What to do with it: I suggest > macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/ltxtable.tex > > I may have one or two other bits and pieces to put on ctan but not > into the LaTeX distribution, so it might end up having more than one > file in the directory eventually. > > It must be OK to distribute as it has not produced a TeX error now for > over half an hour.... I have duly installed the thing as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 11 00:40:23 1995 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:29:57 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Keith Reckdahl Subject: Re: latest epslatex.ps Keith Reckdahl writes: > I`ve copied epslatex.ps to the /incoming directory. This > replaces the current epslatex.ps in the /tex-archive/info > directory. Please, people, read and pay attention to README.uploads It's important that we're told _which_ /incoming directory that epslatex.ps has been uploaded to -- there are three of them, and some North Americans _do_ upload to European sites to make life easier for those of us who do (almost all of) the work. > This file is version 1.5 of "Using EPS Graphics in LaTeX2e Documents". > This is a basically a typo-fix from version 1.4, although a section > on inserting non-EPS graphics (TIFF, GIF, etc.) has also been added. > Below is the document abstract: > > This document explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript > (EPS) files in LaTeX2e documents. The graphics and graphicx > packages provide commands which insert, scale, and rotate > EPS graphics. In addition to graphic-insertion commands, > commands which are commonly used in conjunction with > EPS graphics are covered. > > Inserting graphics in figure environments allows graphics > to be referenced. Inserting graphics in minipage environments > provides better control over their positioning. The subfigure > package allows multiple graphics to be included in a single > figure while still allowing the referencing of the individual > graphics. Since most applications which produce EPS files > support only ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in > EPS files to be replaced with LaTeX symbols or equations. > > Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats (TIFF, GIF, > JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when dvips is used. > Since LaTeX and dvips do not have any built-in decompression > or graphics-conversion capabilities, that software must be > provided by the user. I've installed the replacement file at ftp.tex.ac.uk, whence it will wend its way to the other sites in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Nov 10 06:52:44 1995 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:48:26 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: nopageno package for LaTeX: No page numbers... Robin has installed tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/nopageno.sty at the UK archive, it will reach other sites in due course. \usepackage{nopageno} is equivlalent to \pagestyle{empty} and placing \thispagestyle{empty} after every \begin{theindex} \maketitle \part and \chapter command David This announcement is a lot larger that the package code itself: \let\ps@plain\ps@empty \ps@empty From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Nov 11 01:03:05 1995 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 16:45:54 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Klaus Braune writes: > (a) I have just uploaded the new DANTE TeX distribution for UNIX > workstations to the server > ftp.dante.de > into the directory > incoming/dante-src > > (b) The distribution consists of 5 files, 4 of which I had to reload > due to transmission errors (sorry). The files replace the contents > of the current directory > pub/tex/systems/unix/dante-src > (approximately the same size). Due to the neccessity to reload > most of the files the current names in 'incoming/dante-src' are > different from the names to be distributed. The files and their > final names are: > current name final name > ----------------------- ----------------- > LIES.MICH.ok LIES.MICH > READ.ME.ok READ.ME > dante-tex.tar.Z.retry dante-tex.tar.Z > dante-dvilj.tar.Z.retry dante-dvilj.tar.Z > dante-dvips.tar.Z dante-dvips.tar.Z > > The remaining files within the directory 'incoming/dante-src' are > broken and are to be discarded (LIES.MICH, READ.ME, dante-dvilj.tar.Z, > dante-dvilj.tar.Z.ok and dante-tex.tar.Z). > > (c) The files make up a source code distribution of a TeX system which > can be generated and installed on UNIX workstations. Starting from > the sources only few commands are needed to create a ready to use > TeX system including the most essential input files, fonts and > MakeIndex. > > (d) The files replace the currently distributed files within the > directory > pub/tex/systems/unix/dante-src > > Thanks for putting the files onto the server. > > Sincerly yours > Klaus Braune > > > ******************************************************************************** > > Klaus Braune DANTE Site Coordinator for UNIX > > Universitaet Karlsruhe Zirkel 2 * D-76128 Karlsruhe > Rechenzentrum Phone: +49 721 608-4031 > EMAIL: Braune@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de > unix@dante.de The files have been put on the server. Thanks -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 14 18:09:57 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:36:51 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: C.Walshaw@greenwich.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Chris Walshaw writes: > I have just uploaded version 1.5 of abc2mtex to ftp.tex.ac.uk in > /incoming/abc2mtex. The files are: > README > README.MAC > MacABC.cpt.hqx > README.PC > abc2mtex.zip > README.UNIX > abc2mtex1.5.tar.gz > INTRO.html > INTRO.txt > PaddyORafferty.gif > usrguide.ps > abc.txt > Changes > > and I think they should live in /tex-archive/support/abc2mtex of CTAN. > The tar, hqx and zip files duplicate each other to a certain extent > and do not need unpacking. I have installed them as suggested, replacing the 1.4 distribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 14 23:55:07 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:00:38 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: Re: TeXEd11.zip hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes: > now I've uploaded TeXEd11.zip and TeXEd.txt. > Whould you please be so kindly to install TeXEd11.zip and TeXEd.txt > in the directory systems/os2 and to remove TeXEd10c.zip and TeXEd.txt. I installed the new version i systems/os2/texed -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Nov 18 02:05:54 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:04:30 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, Michael Piefel Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Piefel writes: > (a) I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de. > > (b) The files are in the directory 'lgrind' > > (c) This is the new update of the LGrind pretty-printer > > (d) The proposed place is /support/lgrind, where it resides today. Thanks, I installed the new version. > BTW: The (very) old version of this program, tgrind, which does > all the same for TeX, not LaTeX, should _not_ reside under > /systems/msdos/tgrind, for it is (a) in no way a special MS-DOS > version and it (b) is also available under /support/tgrind. Thanks for the hint, I removed the subtree systems/msdos/tgrind. > > Bye, MPi > > |=| Michael Piefel | > |=| Technische Universitaet Berlin (Germany) | > |=| | > |=| e-Mail: piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de | > |=| URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~piefel | > -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Nov 14 14:06:41 1995 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:06:08 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN upload: 00bugs.txt KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE writes: > I have uploaded the file 00bugs.txt to the german ctan site ftp.dante.de. > It contains the list of known bugs to the dc-fonts (1.2) and should be > placed in directory > > tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf/ > > No other files need to be changed or deleted. Thanks, I installed the file. Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 15 11:00:53 1995 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:30:09 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: scf@liverpool.ac.uk Subject: booktabs -- table macros for production quality typesetting I have installed Simon Fear's booktabs macros at ftp.tex.ac.uk in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/booktabs They should propagate to the other CTANs overnight (they're not terribly large). The readme file says (inter alia): Package provides publication quality tables for LaTeX (can be used in 2.09 with a minor change to booktabs.sty documented therein). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Nov 15 11:04:15 1995 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 15:41:43 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: basmith@prometheus.chem.umn.edu Subject: Re: Updated fnpara.sty Bradley A. Smith writes: > I have updated the fnpara package to make it compatible with new LaTeX > base files, and to add paragraph footnotes in minipages. The updated > fnpara.sty file has been uploaded to /incoming. > > Please consider adding this to the archives. I have considered ... and acted. I have installed fnpara.sty at ftp.tex.ac.uk as tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/fnpara.sty It should propagate to the other archives over night. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Nov 20 04:13:26 1995 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:59:14 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Santiago Vila Doncel Subject: Re: Submission: DPInnn for emTeX Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > Dear CTAN mantainers: > > I have put in ftp.dante.de/incoming/DPInnn the following two files: > > dpinnn.zip > README > > Extract from the README file: > @----------------------------------------------------------------------------@ > This is just a set of configuration files to make emTeX look for PK fonts > in DPInnn directories instead of the traditional nnnDPI. > You might have several reasons to want this behaviour: > > * It is what the TDS standard propose. > * First character of a directory name in a CD-ROM must be a letter. > * It will be easier to share your PK fonts with other TeX installations > (for example, teTeX). > @----------------------------------------------------------------------------@ > > I would like this to be moved from incoming/DPInnn to a new directory > called systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/DPInnn It is already installed in systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/dpinnn -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 21 08:50:09 1995 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:31:45 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: holin@mathp7.jussieu.fr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Hubert Holin writes: > le 20/11/1995 > > I have uploaded this day to the site > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > the (tar-gziped) file > > holin.tar.gz > > This is a collection of parameter files for the bbm and rsfs fonts, designeg > to work within the sauter distribution, as well as a README file. > > These files should be placed (with the agreement of the Mr J"org Knappen, > which I have) in the directory > > tex-archive/fonts/sauter23/holin I have duly installed the directory obtained by expanding the .tar.gz file as fonts/cm/sauter23/holin -- I presume that was what Hubert ^^^ really meant... The files should propagate overnight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 24 14:11:01 1995 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 18:04:47 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Ramon Garcia Fernandez Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Some time ago, Ramon Garcia Fernandez wrote: > I have uploaded Spanish hyphenation tables for TeX. > The uploaded files are spanish.c and hyphen.spanish > > The first file is the source code that generates > the second file. > > Acording to someone who knows more that me about CTAN, > this files should be in /tex-archive/language I apologise for the delay in installing these files -- something had caused me to miss your announcement of them. I have installed both in language/spanish (a directory that didn't previously exist). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Nov 29 03:02:29 1995 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 08:51:06 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Volker Kuhlmann writes: > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file > ieeepes.tar.gz. It contains a package, including documentation, for > writing papers for the IEEE Power Engineering Society. > > Please unpack into > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ > I have not used the docstrip format (things are faster for me without > for the time being), but there is a complete documentation, and I am > willing to suppor the package. Thanks, I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/ieeepes Sorry for the delay, but with only a few people working on the archive at the moment a delay of one week is not surprising. > Thanks for CTAN!!!!!! You're most welcome. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf > > Following is the README file: > > ---- snip ---- > Package ieeepes for LaTeX2e > =========================== > > This package allows typesetting of transactions, as well as discussions > and closures, for the IEEE Power Engineering Society: > IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion > IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery > IEEE Transactions on Power Systems > > > List of Files > ------------- > > README this file > ieeepes.sty macro definiton file > ieeepes.bst style file for bibtex > ieeepes_doc.tex documentation > ieeepes_check.tex test for the ieeepes package (expect 4 errors!) > ieeepes_check.bib needed for ieeepes_check.tex, ieeepes_doc.tex > ieeepes_skel.tex skeleton for a paper > volker.eps sample author image > > > > Installation > ------------ > > Copy *.sty to a directory which is searched by TeX. > > Copy *.bst to a directory where bibtex looks for bibtex style files. > > > Documentation > ------------- > > To obtain a printed version, process ieeepes_doc.tex with LaTeX: > latex ieeepes_doc > bibtex ieeepes_doc > latex ieeepes_doc > latex ieeepes_doc > > A printed version of the test file can be generated with: > latex ieeepes_check > latex ieeepes_check > latex ieeepes_check > > The resulting dvi files can then be converted to the format your > printer understands. > > I know this does not use the docstrip system - I might use it later, > but at the moment I find it more important to get finished at all. > > > Copyright > --------- > > This package is copyright (C) Volker Kuhlmann. Permission is granted to > use this software free of charge, and to distribute it freely provided > no charge is made for distribution. > > Volker Kuhlmann > EEE Dept > University of Canterbury > Private Bag 4800 > Christchurch, New Zealand > > kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz > ---- snip ---- > > Volker From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 2 10:58:17 1995 Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 12:58:02 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Donald Arseneau Subject: Re: CTAN submission Donald Arseneau writes: > SHSU isn't answering... > > I uploaded the new style "placeins.sty" on tex.ac.uk:incoming. > I suppose it should go in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc. > > It keeps floats in their own sections (and solves the stuck- > floats problem in many cases.) I've installed it as suggested; it should propagate to the other CTAN sites fairly soon (always assuming SHSU wakes up...). (I shall be adding it to the UK TUG FAQ, as well, being as how I'm in the middle of an update cycle.) Thanks, Donald. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Dec 4 03:50:50 1995 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:19:26 -0300 (MET) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.0.1 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) I've uploaded version 3.0.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors). It is located in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ========================================================================= Version 3.0.1 new: 20-Nov-1995 hbf2gf config files for CNS added. changed: .vf and .tfm files for Hangul have been removed; will now be part of the Hangul font packages. CNS font definition files modified. `~' if \CJKtilde has been executed will now suppress spaces afterwards. (hopefully) better installation documentation. ttf2pk: improved scripts. the font directories (for web2c) in the various script/config files have been standardized: the source bitmap fonts and its HBF header files are now assumed to be in /usr/local/lib/font/{china,japan,korea,...}/font_name/ the hbf2gf configuration files in /usr/local/lib/hbf2gf/ the TeX font files in /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/{chinese,japanese,korean,...}/font_name/pk/CJK/ /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/{chinese,japanese,korean,...}/font_name/{tfm,vf}/ the NTU TrueType fonts in /usr/local/lib/font/china/truetype . errors: standard.chr redefined the altchar macros erroneously (Patrick Tuttle ). MULEenc.sty failed with german.sty in sectioning commands. mule2cjk didn't work with CNS planes 3-7. From k3079e3@cxmeta.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Dec 4 03:49:15 1995 Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:24:13 -0300 (MET) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Subject: ANNOUNCING Font Packages for LaTeX2e CJK Package I've uploaded font bundles for the CJK package for LaTeX2e to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors). The CNS fonts mentioned in the README should follow soon. They are located in the following directory: tex-archive/fonts/CJK Below you find the README. Happy TeXing Werner ========================================================================== In this directory you find font bundles for the CJK package for LaTeX2e. Installation details can be found in the CJK documentation files and (after unpacking) in /usr/local/lib/doc/package_name/README Here a table of the packages: han Hangul syllables (in KS order) in various fonts taken from the former HLaTeX. han1 Hangul syllables (in KS order) in various fonts taken from the former jhTeX. hanja65 A KS font (taken from the new HLateX package) starting with character 0x4a21. jfs56 GB encoded font. Fangsong style. kanji48 JIS encoded font. Normal style. ntukai48 Big 5 encoded font. Kai style. cns40p1 ... cns40p7 CNS encoded font planes 1-7. Song style. cns40b5 Big 5 encoded CNS font. This package needs cns40p1-cns40p3 for the bitmaps. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 7 05:58:32 1995 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:38:03 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: Re: I've uploaded TeXEd12.zip hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes: > I'he uploaded > > TeXEd12.zip > ReadMe.txt and > LiesMich.txt > > (TeXEd is written by myself and the archive contain an english and a > german version) > > Please install these file into the 'pub/tex/systems/os2/texed' > directory. > > Thanks > Frank Stippich Thanks, I installed the updates in the directory (with all-lowercase names) -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 7 22:23:09 1995 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:39:17 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Ulrik Vieth Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: mflogo update Ulrik Vieth writes: > > I have uploaded a new version of my `mflogo' package to the /incoming > directory at ftp.dante.de. Simply unpack the file mflogo.tar.gz > into the directory latex/macros/contrib/supported/mflogo. > > Version 1.5c of the `mflogo' package contains a minor bug fix repairing > an incompatibility of the |\MF| and |\MP| logos in the LaTeX tabbing > enviroment that was reported by Joerg Knappen. There should be no > user-visible changes otherwise compared to the previous version (1.5b) > that was released in early September 1995. > > Happy TeXing, > > Ulrik Vieth (vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de) -- 1995/12/04 > > > P.S. I've added an installation Makefile this time, which is however > heavily Unix-centristic and totally unsupported. Comments concerning > the Makefile are nevertheless welcome. Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 7 06:47:46 1995 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:42:19 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, john leis Subject: Re: CTAN Submission john leis writes: > I have just uploaded a submission for the CTAN network, to site > "ftp.dante.de", file "latexcad11a.zip" . > It is an update for my latex drawing program latexcad.sty, currently > in systems\msdos\latexcad.zip > > This version (1.1) supercedes version 1.0, which is on CTAN > directory systems\msdos. Version 1.0 (file latexcad.zip) may now > be removed, with latexcad11.zip in place. Thanks, I put the new file into the archive. > It may be useful to put the file README.TXT from the distribution > in the same directory, if you wish. I have done this. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 7 05:56:52 1995 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:44:13 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Subject: Re: CTAN Upload: dc12pl1.zip KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE writes: > I have just uploaded patch level one of dcfonts 1.2 to the german CTAN > site. Please unpack the zip archive in > tex-archive/fonts/dc/mf > it doesn't contain subdirectories. > > The patchlevel 1 contains mainly a fix to the missing > ligature, some more easy-to-fix bugs were also done. Thanks, I updated the archive. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Dec 8 00:18:19 1995 Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 14:25:42 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Gregory Gutt Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Upgrade of LaTeX Launcher Hello Gregory > I have made a recent upgrade of the program LaTeX Launcher to: > ftp.shsu.edu \incoming\llnch131a > > The files are: > > lalaunch.exe > lalaunch.cfg > readme.txt > vbrun300.dll > > This is version 1.3.1 (The current version on CTAN is ver 1.2) > it is installed in: systems/msdos/lalaunch. > > Please delete the old files in systems/msdos/lalaunch and replace them > with my upload. During a failed ftp session I created another directory > /incoming/llnch131... please delete it. I cannot delete anything from /incoming at ftp.shsu.edu, as I've got only normal user rights there. The manager there is not normally reachable. I've copied your files over to the german CTAN site ftp.dante.de and installed them there, from where they will propagate to all CTAN hosts. If it is a possibility for you, I'd like to ask you to do further uploads to one of ftp.tex.ac.uk ftp.dante.de It's very sad that ftp.shsu.edu is running on autopilot. I appended your info to this message which I copy to the CTAN and CTAN announce mailing lists. Thanks a lot Rainer Schoepf > > ************** Below is for historical reference ************************* > The file readme.txt gives a pretty good description of lalaunch, please > read it if you would like more detail. However, here is a brief overview. > > LaTeX Launcher is a nice simple shell utility for (Windows 3.1 or 95) > designed for use with various LaTeX packages and utilities. I have > tested it a great deal with EmTeX. > > Basically LaLaunch manages your LaTeX session, it can pass variables > to programs such as: file names, page numbers and paths. These variables > are set at run time via pop-up menus and or dialog boxes. > > The basic idea is to give an integrated feel to a latex session when > using software written at the four corners of the earth. > > Its function is similar (in function) to the DOS program TeXShell. > ********************************************************************** > From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 14 05:32:41 1995 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:17:16 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: kfkleem@c36.uni-hannover.de, James Fortune , Michal Jaegermann , ahg@eng.cam.ac.uk, Susanne Kaufmann , Paul Covell , Stephan Boettcher Subject: Re: CTAN Submission lineno.sty v2.00 Stephan Boettcher writes: > Shalom all of you, > > `lineno.sty' Version v2.00 is ready for release, I just put it on CTAN > > ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/lineno-v2.00.tar.gz > > and it should replace the older version in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/lineno > > The included README file is appended below. > > Stephan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stephan B"ottcher FAX: +972-3-640-7932 > School of Physics and Astronomy Tel: +972-3-640-7722 > High Energy Physics Department or -8240 > Tel Aviv University Email: stephan@alzt.tau.ac.il > 69978 Tel Aviv or boettcher@desy.de > Israel WWW: http://zow00.desy.de:8000/~stephan/home.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > lineno.sty > > This package provides line numbers on paragraphs. After \TeX\ has > broken a paragraph into lines there will be line numbers attached to > them, with the possibility to make references through the LaTeX \ref, > \pageref cross reference mechanism. > > Take the style-file `lineno.sty', and feed it to a unix shell, this will > produce the documentation. If you have neither UNIX nor AWK, you may need > to download the extracted documentation source as well `lineno.tex' > > csh> source ./lineo.sty > > please ignore the error message at the beginning about the iffalse. > After LaTeX run the document four times, print the resulting > `lineno.dvi'. You will need LaTeX2e. > > The new version v2.00 supports numbering only one in five lines and > switching the linenumbers from left to right side of the page in twoside > mode. > > Please have a look at a similar work of Michal Jaegermann and James > Fortune: > CTAN: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/numline/ I have installed the new release as suggested in macros/latex/contrib/ supported/lineno -- it should propagate to the other CTANs by tomorrow. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Thu Dec 14 15:35:01 1995 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:00:38 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: December LaTeX Release December 1995 LaTeX Release ============================ The LaTeX3 Project is pleased to announce that the December Release is now available from the ctan hosts and will reach mirrors in due course. The following ctan directories are updated tex-archive/macros/latex/base % The core LaTeX sources tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked % The core LaTeX sources, `unpacked' tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools % The `tools' `graphics' and tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics% `mfnfss' collections of tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/mfnfss % Standard LaTeX packages. As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the newsletter ltnews04.tex. Two points deserve special mention here: * Unpacking this release should take significantly less time than has been the case for previous LaTeX releases. This is due to a new implementation of the docstrip utility that has been contributed by Marcin Woli\'nski. * When using Computer Modern Fonts in the `T1' (`Cork') encoding, LaTeX will now assume the font names of release 1.2 of the dc fonts which occurred earlier this year. If you still have the old dc fonts then you must unpack the file olddc.ins to produce suitable fd files using the old font names. This is documented in the installation guide, install.txt, but is mentioned here as it differs from previous releases. The test document ltxcheck.tex will report any problems with dc fonts if the LaTeX format does not appear to match the fonts you have installed at your site. David Carlisle For the LaTeX3 Project From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Dec 15 19:11:15 1995 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 18:54:54 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE, LATEX-2E@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Subject: Re: December LaTeX Release I said > As usual the main features of the new release are documented in the > newsletter ltnews04.tex. If you were very quick to pick up the release then unfortunately the file ltnews04.tex was missing. It was added `this morning' to all the main ctan hosts. (That is `this morning' here: The first two people to report this file missing were in Australia....) Sorry for any confusion that this caused. David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Dec 17 13:53:17 1995 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:48:40 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Alan Hoenig Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: poetica at last Alan Hoenig writes: > I have placed poet.tar.gz in the tex-archive/incoming directory of shsu. > > The file poet.tar.gz should be unpacked and placed in a directory like > fonts/poetica. It contains the vf's, tfm's, and necessary input files > for using the Poetica environment in latex as described in the article > by me on Poetica which will appear in the TUGboat (16)3, the proceedings > of the TUG mmeting held in St Petersburg, FL during the summer of 1995. > Although I believe it is legal to distribute the vf files and the associated > metric files, I know it is illegal to distribute the font files themselves. > Users will need to acquire these fonts from an Adobe distributor, and then > follow the directions in the install file for using these fonts with tex and > latex using this material. > > For those who don't know, the Poetica family of fonts are a series of fonts > modelled after the Chancery letterforms (cursive and italic-like) which first > arose in the Renaissance. The fonts include very many special ligatures, > and glyphs appropriate for word endings and word beginnings. My macros and > virtual fonts present one way of using this material in a semi-automatic > way with tex and latex. I have installed Alan's stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as fonts/poetica; it should propagate to the other CTANs soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 20:31:03 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:17:40 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Bernd@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Bernd Raichle writes: > > (a) site: ftp.dante.de > > (b) file(s): mltex22.tar > > (c) overview: > > This is version 2.2 of the MLTeX changes for TeX.web. > It is the official update of Michael J. Ferguson's > multilingual TeX.web changes called MLTeX. Version 2.2 will > fix some serious bugs in the current version 2.01. > Included is a small test file "mltextst.tex" for MLTeX and > M.J. Ferguson's original set of macros. > > (d) place: > tex-archive/systems/generic/mltex/ > > Please make a new directory "generic" (or choose another name > for it) under the "systems" subdirectory where all system > independent TeX and MF changes can be put in. > This directory is also needed for e-TeX. > > Note: The tar file "mltex22.tar" will create the "mltex/" > subdirectory, therefore unpack this file in > ".../systems/generic/". Thanks a lot installed as requested. Thanks Rainer From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 12:17:20 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:21:27 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Subject: Re: Upload: New configuration files for the Sauter fonts TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes: > The file cfg.zip contains the configuration files for the December 1995 > release of LaTeX2e in conection with the Sauter font setup. > > Pleas unpack the archive in directory > > tex-archive/fonts/cm/sauter23/latex > > >From the same directory, please move dcstdedt.tex to the obsolete directory, > since it is superseded by dcfonts 1.2. Done as requested. Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 16:59:39 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:24:02 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CTAN update for natbib LINPWD::DALY writes: > Greetings, > > I have just placed the following files in incoming/natbib on the DANTE > CTAN server. > > README.v61a to replace README.v61 > natbib.dtx to replace itself > > Could you please place these files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > removing the old README.v61 > > It is not that I was too quick with my earlier update for Release 4 of LaTeX, > but I failed to test it adequately under the new release. It works fine with > the older ones. > > In spite of the accommodations made to keep \G@undefinedreftrue, I have decided > to be as independent of the kernel as possible. Thanks a lot, installed as requested. Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 18:17:45 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:28:19 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Richard Gussmann Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Richard Gussmann writes: > > > Hallo, > > I've put on Thu, 14 Dec 95, the following files in the directory > /incoming/dinbrief > dinbrief.dtx > dinbrief.ins > readme > announce > I resent this mail since I have received a mail that the > package is not yet online. > > This is a LaTeX209 and LaTeX2e class for writing letters > following the rules of the german DIN institute. This version > now should run with the new LaTeX2e release from December 1995 > (not available yet). > This files should replace the old ones in > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief Thanks a lot, installed as requested. > Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. The same to you. Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 13:23:11 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:30:36 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CTAN update for aguplus LINPWD::DALY writes: > Hello, > > I have put the following files into the DANTE CTAN server under > /incoming/aguplus > > agu.bst > aguplus.cls > aguplus.sty > aguplus.tex > changes.v13 > keylist.bst > keylist.tex > readme.pwd > sample.bib > samplus.tex > > Could you please copy them to contrib/supported/aguplus > replacing all files already in that directory. Thanks a lot, installed as requested. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 15:58:34 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:45:32 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Guido Sawade , CTAN@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: psutils for OS2 Guido Sawade writes: > I have just uploaded the psutilities (executables, > manpages and a short README.1ST) for OS2, the exe > files work under 32Bit DOS / Windows PCs as well. > > Please copy the psutils.zip from > incoming/psutils.os2 > whereever you find it usefull. (I personally > would prefer an additional link into > ../msdos/emtex/dvips I installed them as systems/os2/psutils.zip with an additional link from systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/psutils.zip Is this OK? Seasons Greetings Rainer From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Dec 21 15:30:14 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 21:22:19 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, John Leis Subject: Re: CTAN Submission John Leis writes: > > I have once again updated the LaTeX-CAD package to version 1.4 > I have put the files > latexcad14.txt (2676 bytes) > latexcad14.zip (446,226 bytes) > on the site pip.shsu.edu > > Could you copy them to systems/msdos/latexcad and delete the old files. Installed as requested, thanks alot Rainer Schöpf From A7621GAC@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT Tue Jan 2 13:06:20 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 22:20:34 +0000 (MEZ) From: Werner Lemberg Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, ccnet-l <@cunyvm.cuny.edu:ccnet-l@uga.BITNET>, linux-asia@li.org Subject: ANNOUNCING CNS font packages for LaTeX2e's CJK package The ready-to-run font packages for my CJK package for LaTeX2e are now available at CTAN and its mirrors in tex-archive/fonts/CJK. I recently completed the set with CNS fonts (plane 1-7 and plane 1-3 in Big 5 encoding). Happy TeXing! Werner Lemberg From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jan 5 15:45:34 1996 Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 19:55:19 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: Disruption of ftp.tex.ac.uk, next Thursday 1996/01/11 The whole of the central computing facilities in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory will be switched off between 0600 and 0700 GMT next Thursday, for various power supply work, including connection of an UPS. Since the CTAN node is part of those central facilities, it will be unavailable from then. The power will probably be off until 1700, and we hope to have the equipment all running again by 1800. We apologise for this disruption; with a modicum of luck it will enable us to offer a service that is less frequently interrupted by power outages than was the case in 1995... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN/UK team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Jan 8 13:21:24 1996 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 15:45:07 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Martin Schroeder Subject: Re: Please remove PrintTim from CTAN Martin Schroeder writes: > please remove the package PrintTim from CTAN. > It can be found in macros/latex/contrib/supported/PrintTim > > It has become obsolete; its users should use scrtime from the > koma-script bundle. I've just deleted the package. Regards Rainer From kb@cs.umb.edu Mon Jan 8 15:23:26 1996 Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 14:55:22 -0500 From: K. Berry To: tex-folks@cs.umb.edu Subject: modes.mf 3.0 available I have released version 3.0 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf and shortly from ftp.cdrom.com:pub/tex/modes.mf and the ctan sites in /tex-archive/fonts/modes/modes-3.0.mf. finger ctan@ftp.shsu.edu for a list of all the CTAN sites and mirrors. The mailing list tex-archive@math.utah.edu receives most TeX-related announcements; email tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join. You can also get it by email from if you cannot ftp: email fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. News: - most importantly, a new and much cleaner way of doing write/white changes, compatible with the DC fonts as well as CM, etc. This *does* affect the rasterization to some extent, but in the cases I tried, it was no worse, and sometimes better. - a small test file, modetest.tex, included. - new modes for the Amiga ShowDVI previewer, PC previewing, high-resolution fax, LJ 5, Canon BJC, Lexmark Optra 4049 R, Agfa 3400PS. - default localfont now ljfour. - screen_rows, screen_cols interchanged to match plain.mf. - TeX formatting improved, but still not completely working. As always, thanks to the contributors, and further additions and improvements are welcome. Please send bug reports or suggestions to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu (email tex-fonts-request to join the mailing list). General information: modes.mf is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common definitions for write/white printers, `special' information, and landscape mode. It uses up too much memory for the table sizes in the original mf.web, so you either have to increase the sizes (as in Web2c) or rename the file and remove unneeded modes. I can't decipher mf.web well enough to understand how to make the modes use less memory; if some Metafont hacker can tell me, I'd very much like to hear it. If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing ones, please send them to me. Improvements to the exposition, particularly in how to create a new mode_def, are also welcome. kb@cs.umb.edu mode_def agfafzz = % AGFA 400PS mode_def agfatfzz = % AGFA P3400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def apssixhi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 mode_def atariezf = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer mode_def atarinf = % Atari 95dpi previewer mode_def atarins = % Atari 96x96 previewer mode_def atariotf = % Atari ST SM 124 screen mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def bjtenex = % Canon BubbleJet 10ex mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def canonbjc = % Canon BJC-600, 360x360dpi mode_def canonex = % CanonEX in LaserWriter Pro 630 mode_def canonlbp = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def cg = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def cgl = % Compugraphic 8600 landscape mode_def cgnszz = % Compugraphic 9600 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def cx = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX mode_def datadisc = % DataDisc mode_def newdd = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def declarge = % DEC 19-inch, 1280 x 1024 mode_def decsmall = % DEC 17-inch, 1024 x 768 mode_def deskjet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def docutech = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def eighthre = % EightThree (83x83) mode_def epsdrft = % Epson at 120x72dpi mode_def epsdrftl = % Epson at 120x72dpi landscape mode_def epsfast = % Epson at 60x72dpi mode_def epsfastl = % Epson at 60x72dpi landscape mode_def epson = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def epsonl = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family landscape mode_def epsonact = % Epson Action Laser 1500 mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120x216dpi mode_def epsonlol = % Epson at 120x216dpi landscape mode_def epstylus = % Epson Stylus mode_def fourfour = % FourFour (44x44) (really low-res) mode_def gtfax = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax mode_def gtfaxl = % 204 x 196dpi G3fax landscape mode_def gtfaxlo = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax mode_def gtfaxlol = % 204 x 98dpi G3fax landscape mode_def highfax = % 200 x 200dpi G3fax mode_def hprugged = % HP RuggedWriter 480 mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) mode_def ibmd = % IBM 38xx (\#2) mode_def ibmega = % IBM EGA monitor mode_def ibmegal = % IBM EGA monitor landscape mode_def ibmfzon = % IBM 4019 mode_def ibmfztn = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 mode_def ibmpp = % IBM ProPrinter mode_def ibmppl = % IBM ProPrinter landscape mode_def ibmsoff = % IBM 6154 display mode_def sherpa = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) mode_def ibmteot = % IBM 3812 mode_def ibmtetz = % IBM 3820 mode_def ibmtont = % IBM 3193 screen mode_def ibmtosn = % IBM 3179 screen mode_def ibmtosnl = % IBM 3179 screen landscape mode_def ibmvga = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def ibx = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def itoh = % CItoh 8510A mode_def itohl = % CItoh 8510A landscape mode_def itohtoz = % CItoh 310 mode_def itohtozl = % CItoh 310 landscape mode_def iw = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def jetiiisi = % HP Laser Jet IIISi mode_def lasf = % DEC LA75 mode_def lexmarkr = % IBM (Lexmark) Optra R (4049) mode_def linolo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def linolttz = % Linotype Linotronic L-300 with RIP-50 mode_def linoone = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def linotzzh = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def ljfive = % HP LaserJet 5 mode_def ljfour = % 600dpi HP LaserJet 4 mode_def ljlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def lmaster = % 1000dpi LaserMaster mode_def lnzo = % DEC LN01 mode_def lpstz = % DEC lps20 mode_def lqlores = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi mode_def lqmed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi mode_def lqmedl = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi landscape mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def lwpro = % Apple LaserWriterPro 810 mode_def macmag = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def mactrue = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def ncd = % NCD 19-inch mode_def nec = % NEC 180dpi mode_def nechi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi mode_def neclm = % NEC PC-PR406LM 320dpi mode_def nectzo = % NEC PC-PR201 series 160dpi mode_def nexthi = % NeXT 400dpi, Newgen mode_def nextscrn = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def nineone = % NineOne (91x91) mode_def nullmode = % TFM files only mode_def onetz = % OneTwoZero (120/120) mode_def onezz = % OneZeroZero (100x100) mode_def ocessfz = % OCE 6750-PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def okidatal = % Okidata landscape mode_def okifte = % Okidata 410e in 600 DPI mode mode_def pcscreen = % also, e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def pcprevw = % preview on pc screen mode_def phaser = % Tektronix Phaser PXi mode_def prntware = % Printware 720IQ mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) mode_def qmsostf = % QMS 1725 mode_def qmsoszz = % QMS 1700 mode_def ricoh = % e.g., TI Omnilaser mode_def ricoha = % e.g., IBM 4216 mode_def ricohlp = % e.g., DEC LN03 mode_def sparcptr = % Sun SPARCprinter mode_def starnlt = % Star NL-10 mode_def starnltl = % Star NL-10 landscape mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def vs = % VAXstation monitor mode_def vtftzz = % Varityper 4200 B-P mode_def vtftzzhi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi mode_def vtftzzlo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi mode_def vtfzszw = % Varitype 5060W, APS 6 mode_def vtszz = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def xrxesnz = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def xrxfzfz = % Xerox 4050/4075/4090/4700 mode_def xrxnszz = % Xerox 9700 mode_def xrxtszz = % Xerox 3700 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 18:29:45 1996 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:16:33 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: braune@RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Richard Gussmann writes: > > Hello, > > I've put the following files in the directory > /incoming/dinbrief > dinbrief.dtx > dinbrief.ins > readme > announce > This is a LaTeX209 and LaTeX2e class for writing letters > following the rules of the german DIN institute. This version > now should run with the new LaTeX2e release from December 1995. > This files should replace the old ones in > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief Thanks, I made the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 19:36:50 1996 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 18:19:44 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Leon.Zlajpah@ijs.si Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Leon @lajpah writes: > CTAN Submission > > I have uploaded the following file > > sihyph22.tex > > to the site > > ftp.dante.de/incoming > > THe file sihyph22.tex contains hyphenation patterns for the slovene > language. It should be placed to the directory > > /pub/tex/languages/slovene > > > Best regards, > > Leon Zlajpah > > ....................................................................... > dr. Leon Zlajpah > Jozef Stefan Institute tel: +386 61 1773 565 > Jamova 39 fax: +386 61 219 385 > 61000 Ljubljana email: leon.zlajpah@ijs.si > Slovenia URL: http://cathy.ijs.si/~leon/index.html > ....................................................................... Thanks a lot, I installed the file as requested. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 10 14:20:11 1996 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:20:25 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN Submissions (onepagem and time) Mike Piff has submitted one further package that I have added to his directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff; it manifests itself as ams.dtx and ams.ins there He says of it: > This package is a minimal one that allows access to the three > common AMS symbol font families. To use it, you will need the > |amsfonts| package. It defines the common symbols such as Bbb > R (reals) as \R, etc, and allows the user to easily define > any others in a similar fashion. > > The package has largely been superceded by amsfonts, and is > provided for compatibility reasons only. (The original > did the same job in LaTeX2.09, before the AMS supported > LaTeX.) Certainly, the LaTeX2e version is much simpler > than the original LaTeX2.09 one! It, too, should propagate fairly soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN UK team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:54:21 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:51:24 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Umeki Hideo writes: > I have uploaded a LaTeX(209/2e) package `pagesize.sty' (ver.2.50) > to ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/. > > Brief overview: > When you want to change page size and layout, you need to change many > dimensions concerning width, height, and margins, or need to know > several macro packages (style files) that suit you. But it is not easy > task to set these dimensions correctly, for example, when you want to > center the text region in the paper. Of course, there are several > solutions to this, such as Vpage.sty and Vmargin.sty and some other > packages for specifying paper size, but I think user interface of them > is not good. > Thus I have generated pagesize.sty for simple setting of page size. > One of advantages of pagesize.sty is automatic centering of the text > region in any paper size under your specified condition. > > I recommend placing this package in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/. I installed the package in the proposed location. > I think it's OK to place it in /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/ > too, because it works both with LaTeX209 and with LaTeX2e. No, the subtree macros/latex209 Many thanks, For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 19:27:19 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 17:35:42 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Koaunghi Un writes: > > It was a month ago, when I sent this mail to you, describing > submission of package HLaTeX-0.93 in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX. > > At that time, I could not upload all my package because of the lack of > hard space in ftp.dante.de. Today I've tried to finish uploading > missing parts of HLaTeX, with success. > > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung. Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in fonts/korean/HLaTeX For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:52:50 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 18:57:25 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Boris Veytsman Subject: Re: CTAN submission: nomenclature package Boris Veytsman writes: > Dear friends: > > I put the file nomencl.tar to the incoming directory > of CTAN at shsu. It contains the nomenclature package > (the readme file is appended). > > I suggest installing the untarred files at > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/nomencl > > Good luck > > -Boris Thanks a lot, I installed the package as proposed. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf > > ---------readme file for the package----------------- > > Some journals (e. g. AIChE Journal) require the authors to > include lists of the used symbols in their articles. It seems that some > universities require such lists in the theses. > > Of course one can make such lists by hand. However it is tedious and > error-prone. The package nomencl uses the powerful capabilities of the > MakeIndex program to create these lists automatically. It provides > versatile and easily customizable tools for creating nomenclatures in > LaTeX2e documents. > > While the package was written mainly for creating nomenclatures, it can > be also used for creating and customizing glossaries. > > > Before you install... You need TeX, LaTeX2e (June 1995 > release or later) and MakeIndex to use the package nomencl. > > The installation is very simple. Put the file nomencl.sty where > your store TeX-inputs files, and the file nomencl.ist where you > store MakeIndex style files (.ist files). The files nomencl.tex > and nomencl.ps provides the documentation. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jan 10 20:59:22 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:07:49 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Upload: jknappen.zip TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes: > To improve maintanace of the package files supported by me, I decided to > collect them into one directory and update them. > > Please unpack the zip archive jknappen.zip in > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported > it will create a subdirectory jknappen there. Please rename all files > beginning with the letter `u' (lowercase) to begin with a capital `U' > (have I told you before that I hate LaTeX's case sensitiveness at that > place?). > > Please delete the following files and/or directories: > > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/greekctr.sty > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathbbol/* > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathrsfs/* > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/scr.sty > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/bbold.sty > macros/latex209/contrib/nfss-addons/sans.sty > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/young.sty > > Short description of the packages: > > greekctr New counterstyles \greek and \Greek > holtpolt Non-commutative fractions > latin1jk Special variant of latin1 to be used with the inputenc > package which allows verbatim setting of latin1 files. > latin3jk Latin3 input encoding (esperanto) to be used with the > inputenc package > mathbbol `Mengensymbole' (Blackboard bold, using Alan Jeffrey's > bbold fonts) > mathrsfs Mathematical `Script' letters (as traditionally used in > physics for Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, path integral > measures...) > sans Interchanges the roles of sans serif and roman fonts > throughout the document (\sf produces roman) > young Young tableaus > > Yours, J"org Knappen. Thanks a lot, I installed/deleted as proposed From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 11 14:41:49 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:30:08 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released I have just released LaTeX2e 95/12/01 patch level 1 It's already on ftp.dante.de ftp.shsu.edu and should travel to ftp.tex.ac.uk over night. For the LaTeX Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jan 11 14:42:19 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:34:49 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, ryoung@utdallas.edu Subject: Re: gTeX partial improvement upload Young U. Ryu writes: > Dear CTAN Manager(s): > > Uploaded to /incoming/gtex in ftp.shsu.edu (US CTAN Site) are > 4 files: > > latex2e.zip > winbin.zip > winbin.txt > 96jan.txt > > which all should go to /tex-archive/systems/msdos/gtex. > (latex2e.zip replaces the previous one with the same file name.) > > They include (1) LaTeX2e 95/12/01 release for gTeX and (2) some > binaries that run TeX as a Windows application. Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca Thu Jan 11 16:25:17 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:19:34 -0500 From: Peter Galko Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released At 8:30 PM 1/11/96, Rainer Schoepf wrote: >I have just released > > LaTeX2e 95/12/01 patch level 1 > >It's already on > >ftp.dante.de >ftp.shsu.edu > >and should travel to ftp.tex.ac.uk over night. > >For the LaTeX Team > >-- > Rainer Schvpf Hmm. I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all anonymous ftp to it is denied. Anyone know if this is temporary? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Galko Tel: (613)-562-5800 ext. 6204 Room A509, Colonel By Hall FAX: (613)-562-5175 770 King Edward Avenue e-mail: galko@elg.uottawa.ca Department of Electrical Engineering or galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1N 6N5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From swift@bu.edu Thu Jan 11 21:29:43 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:23:08 -0500 From: Matthew Swift Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Peter Galko Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released > Hmm. I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all > anonymous ftp to it is denied. Anyone know if this is temporary? Happens all the time nowadays. 6 months ago I used to be able to get wide connections almost any time of week. Now I use North American mirrors and the UK for timely stuff. From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 04:37:45 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:05:12 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Ken Smith Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Patch level 1 to LaTeX Ken Smith writes: > I've just downloaded ltpatch.ltx from dante.de - the file is dated > 11 January but includes the line > \def\patch@level{0} > and refers to fixing the June 1995 release. > Is there something odd about this file? The link structure at ftp.dante.de was incorrect, so that only the files in macros/latex/base were updated, not their copies in macros/latex/unpacked. I corrected the error. Rainer From swift@bu.edu Fri Jan 12 21:39:18 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 11:17:44 -0500 From: Matthew Swift Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: latex-l@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: ALaTeX for the New Year Dear LaTeX folks, Now at your corner CTAN archive is ALaTeX, a new TeX format which is a small but significant modification of the latest release of LaTeX. It is functionally similar to the format fsfTeX that David Carlisle wrote and included at the end of the most recent cfgguide.tex in the LaTeX distribution, but ALaTeX is more general than fsfTeX. The issues which motivated the creation of ALaTeX have been discussed in detail on the LaTeX3 list in the past, so I am posting only the abstract here and referring the interested reader to the full 3-page paper "A Discussion of ALaTeX and its Standard Metaclass" in the file metaclas.tex in the ALaTeX distribution. \begin{abstract} \ALaTeX{} is a document preparation system that provides the user with all the functionality of \LaTeX{} and a general, legal way to override standard \LaTeX{} behavior without altering source files. An important consequence is that \ALaTeX{} can interpret official \LaTeX{} markup in an abstract way. This discussion builds on the author's paper ``Modularity in \LaTeX'' in the forthcoming TUGboat \textbf{16} (3). \end{abstract} I might add that a second important consequence is that it is easier to keep formatting directives such as font and paper sizes out of sources. Versions of ALaTeX are keyed to versions of LaTeX by adding R1, R2, etc. to the LaTeX release date. The current release is therefore named 95-12-01-R1 and is on CTAN in the directory tex-archive/macros/alatex/alatex-95-12-01-R1 If you happened to have downloaded ALaTeX before today, 12 Jan, the distribution on CTAN was missing a file "amanifst.txt", so you'll need that and should replace "Makefile" also. Regards, Matt Swift From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Fri Jan 12 21:37:11 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:34:37 +0100 (MEZ) From: Koaunghi Un Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Rainer Schoepf Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > > > > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the > > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files > > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung. > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in > > fonts/korean/HLaTeX > > For the CTAN team > Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there. Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz Hangul means Korean native characters and Hanja Korean Chinese characters. The Hanja part are all there but Hangul part for these shapes are missing. Do you have the missing two files still there? If not, I can upload them again. And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. I thank you in advance. Sincerely yours, ========================================================================= Koaunghi Un Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail: Morgenstelle | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) D-72074 T"ubingen | Telefon: +49-7071-296937 Fed. Rep. of Germany | Fax: +49-7071-296936 ========================================================================= From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 20:55:23 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 17:56:54 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Koaunghi Un writes: > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > > > > > > > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the > > > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files > > > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung. > > > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in > > > > fonts/korean/HLaTeX > > > > For the CTAN team > > > > Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there. > > Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz > Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz I don't understand. The files are there. > And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked > in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. I di this in the meantime, but the other two main CTAN hosts have not yet mirrored the change. Thanks -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jan 12 15:46:40 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:34:24 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, sanvila@unex.es Subject: Re: makeinst update Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > I have uploaded makeinst.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming/makeinst directory. > It should replace the old systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/makeinst/makeinst.zip > file. There is no need to announce it in ctan-announce. > It's only a minor update. Thanks, I installed the file. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 16 00:55:21 1996 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:02:26 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: galko@trix.genie.uottawa.ca Subject: Re: LaTeX2e 95/12/01 PL 1 released Peter Galko writes: > Hmm. I just tried an anonymous FTP to shsu and found that all anonymous > ftp to it is denied. Anyone know if this is temporary? This has occasionally happened to me, too (and I hardly ever try SHSU, what with bandwidth problems and the fact that I have a CTAN on site here). It does go away eventually. Unfortunately, since we have no access to the management of SHSU, there's little we can do to help. We continue to seek a new CTAN site in North America, and have one or two potential takers, but nothing firm yet. Sorry you've been inconvenienced. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 21 12:15:03 1996 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:36:06 +0100 (MEZ) From: Koaunghi Un Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Rainer Schoepf Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > Koaunghi Un writes: > > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > > > > > > > > > > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the > > > > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files > > > > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung. > > > > > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in > > > > > > fonts/korean/HLaTeX > > > > > > For the CTAN team > > > > > > > Thank you very much, I've seen today, that 2 files are missing there. > > > > Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz > > Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz > > I don't understand. The files are there. Sorry, there must be a missunderstanding. I see following files in the directory of ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX. ^^^^^ drwxrwxr-x 5 Mr.Ftp server 1024 Jan 12 16:55 . drwxrwxr-x 5 Mr.Ftp server 512 Jan 10 16:24 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 813 Jan 10 15:48 .cache -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 2782 Jan 10 15:48 .cache+ -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 5061 Dec 6 15:03 ChangeLog.ks drwxrw-r-x 2 Mr.Ftp server 512 Nov 24 09:57 Fonts -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 129738 Dec 6 13:34 HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 855227 Dec 6 13:34 Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 3024379 Dec 6 13:35 Hangul-Gungseo-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4746504 Dec 6 13:37 Hangul-Mokgak-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 308922 Dec 6 13:37 Hangul-Symbol-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 2319055 Dec 6 13:38 Hangul-Yetgul-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4499535 Dec 7 12:14 Hanja-Gothic-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 7868594 Jan 4 09:33 Hanja-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 129 Dec 7 12:13 README -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4278 Dec 22 12:51 README.eng -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4214 Dec 22 12:56 README.ks -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 0 Jan 4 09:30 THIS_IS_HLaTeX-0.93 -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11808 Dec 3 13:53 Uhangul.fd -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 9141 Oct 4 21:37 Uhanja.fd -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1285 Nov 23 09:56 Uhsymbol.fd -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11465 Dec 7 12:13 bzrbase.mf drwxrw-r-x 3 Mr.Ftp server 512 Jan 4 09:26 contrib -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 15779 Sep 25 19:19 hangul.sty -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1026 Mar 3 1995 hfont.sty -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 9983 Dec 6 15:12 hfont.tex -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 896 Dec 6 17:19 hlatex-guide.ind -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 936501 Dec 21 17:44 hlatex-guide.ps -rw-rw-r-- 1 Mr.Ftp server 50395 Dec 6 16:29 hlatex-guide.tex drwxrwxr-x 2 Mr.Ftp server 512 Jan 12 16:54 sample There are also the old version of HLaTeX in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. ^^^^^^^^ What I mean is: 1. All the files except *-mf.tar.gz in the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX go to the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. 2. There must be following files in /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX: HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz --- font metric Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz -- <--- missing Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz | <--- missing Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz | Hangul-Gungseo-mf.tar.gz |- Hangul fonts Hangul-Mokgak-mf.tar.gz | Hangul-Symbol-mf.tar.gz | Hangul-Yetgul-mf.tar.gz -- Hanja-Gothic-mf.tar.gz -- Hanja font Hanja-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz -- Hanja font The first two of Hangul fonts are missing: Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz Hangul-Graphic-mf.tar.gz I thought, the labels for the language of far east country are not easy to distinguish among them for European people. So I've tried to emphasize the difference between Hangul and Hanja in the previous mail. But you can forget it, I can upload the missing two files again. > > And as previously said, the file HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz is to be unpacked > > in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. > > I di this in the meantime, but the other two main CTAN hosts have not > yet mirrored the change. I see the unpacked files in the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX. Not in the directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX. Could you please try to go into the /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX directory per ftp to see the files there? With regards, ========================================================================= Koaunghi Un Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail: Morgenstelle | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) D-72074 T"ubingen | Telefon: +49-7071-296937 Fed. Rep. of Germany | Fax: +49-7071-296936 ========================================================================= From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 18 07:29:28 1996 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:09:21 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Donald Arseneau Subject: CTAN upload: citation macros Donald Arseneau has provided us with updated versions of his citation macros, and I have installed them as he requested at macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite The old versions (which were, in contradictory fashion, in macros/ latex/contrib/other/misc) have all been deleted. > Here is the readme file > > This directory contains four .sty files that are mutually compatible, > but actually independent: > > cite.sty Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16] > > overcite.sty Compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations: > "word [12,16,11,13,14,15]." --> "word.$^{11-16}$" > > drftcite.sty Print the tags instead of the numbers for \cite and \bibitem. > > chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies--one for each \include file. > > Each package works with LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09. The documentation is in > plain text in each of the files after all the definitions and \endinput. > It can be read online or printed directly, but don't try to typeset it > with LaTeX! > > Since the instructions follow \endinput, they are not read by TeX and > should not slow down the file loading. If, however, you see that the > instructions slow down the loading on your system, you may split the > file into, for example, cite.sty and cite.doc. Just do not redistribute > these split files. These changes should propagate to the other CTANs within 24 hours. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN UK team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 18 18:17:49 1996 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 22:34:47 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: tim@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Timothy Murphy writes: > (a) I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > > (b) the file lgreek.tar.gz > > (c) This package implements Silvio Levy's LaTeX209 greek package > as a LaTeX2e package "lgreek". > It uses (and requires) the fonts in Levy's package > (/tex-archive/fonts/greek/levy/mf). > > Usage of the package is described in "lgreekuse.tex". > Basically, if you \usepackage{lgreek} then you can say > > \begin{greek} > ... > \end{greek} > > In addition, if you \usepackage[delims]{greek} > then you can include greek inside $...$. > > For further details see "lgreekuse.tex". > > Please send any bug-reports, suggestions or complaints to > tim@maths.tcd.ie > > 18 Jan 1996 > > (d) I suggest that this package should be placed > in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/lgreek . I have installed the files here as Timothy suggested. They should propagate before the night is out. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN UK team From koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Sun Jan 21 04:50:06 1996 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:06:45 +0100 (MEZ) From: Koaunghi Un Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Rainer Schoepf Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Rainer Schoepf wrote: > Koaunghi Un writes: > > > > It was a month ago, when I sent this mail to you, describing > > submission of package HLaTeX-0.93 in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX. > > > > At that time, I could not upload all my package because of the lack of > > hard space in ftp.dante.de. Today I've tried to finish uploading > > missing parts of HLaTeX, with success. > > > > For the remembrance, HLaTeX-0.93.tar.gz will be unpacked in the > > directory of /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and all other files > > go to the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX/wansung. > > Thanks a lot, your update has been installed in > > fonts/korean/HLaTeX > > For the CTAN team > In the previous mail, I've informed you about two missing files in the directory of /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX, Hangul-Myoungjo-mf.tar.gz and Hangul-Gothic-mf.tar.gz. Meanwhile, I'm getting mails from the users to inform me about the same content as said above. But I've got no reply from you, so that I couldn't say any answer to the HLaTeX users. I'd like to try, that you remember this problem again, if you probably forgot it. With regards, ========================================================================= Koaunghi Un Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail: Morgenstelle | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) D-72074 T"ubingen | Telefon: +49-7071-296937 Fed. Rep. of Germany | Fax: +49-7071-296936 ========================================================================= From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 23 18:10:09 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:02:13 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu Subject: Re: epslatex.ps Version 1.6 Keith Reckdahl writes: > I've uploaded version 1.6 of epslatex.ps into the shsu /incoming > directory. This replaces version 1.5 which is currently in > the /tex-archive/info directory. > > Version 1.6 fixes a few typos from version 1.5, adds the new > /includegraphics options from the 12/95 LaTeX release, and > also adds a section on boxed figures. Thanks for that; I've installed it here, so it'll no doubt wend its way back to SHSU in the fullness of time (and will be at dante as soon as their mirroring starts up for this evening). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 02:26:14 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:08:09 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Anders Svensson Subject: Re: CTAN submission Anders Svensson writes: > I've just uploaded the file kuvio-p213.tar.gz, containing an update to > my diagram package residing in macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio, to the > /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. It'll unpack into a directory > named kuvio and contains a complete replacement for the files > currently residing on CTAN: The old kuvio directory should be blown > away. > > This update fixes a few LaTeX related problems and introduces a > kuvio.sty. I've also removed the PostScript versions of the > documentation in favour of a pointer to a local site where these can > be obtained if necessary. (It seems unnecessary to take up extra space > on CTAN when the source for the documentation is included in my > distribution.) Thanks. I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Jan 25 07:24:41 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:45:48 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Frank_Busse@AC3.Maus.De Subject: Re: CTAN submission: ftp.dante.de:/incoming/epmtx31a.zip Frank Busse writes: > I just uploaded the file 'epmtx31a.zip' to the '/incoming'-directory of > 'ftp.dante.de'. Please *add* the file to the directory > '/pub/tex/systems/os2/epmtex' as well as the following five lines > ('epmtx31a.readme') > > *PATCH UPDATE* EPMTeX Standard Version 3.1a and EPMTeX Pro Version 3.1a > - November 1995 - This is an update for the EPMTeX v3.1 package to correct > two minor defects in the original release. > upload: Frank_Busse@AC3.Maus.De, Jan 22, 1996 > origin: IBM BBS Ehningen (Germany) +49-7034-63250 Thanks, I made the changes. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 01:18:10 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:59:35 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, kloecker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Jens Kloecker writes: > I uploaded the new version of the syntax diagram generator SYNGEN on > > host: ftp.dante.de > directory: /incoming > files: syngen.tar.gz syngen.readme > > The new files should completely replace the old version in > > tex-archive/support/syngen > > Thanks. > > - Jens > > -------------------------- _/_/_/_/ _/ ------------------------------------ > Jens Kloecker _/ _/ > Grombuehlstrasse 24 _/_/_/ kloecker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de > 97080 Wuerzburg _/ _/ _/ > ----------------------- _/ _/ _/ ---------------------------------------- > _/_/ _/ Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 21:31:51 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 15:20:34 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, QElis@aol.com Subject: Re: CTAN Submission QElis@aol.com writes: > (a): > > I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b): > > I've uploaded the file tmv9601.tgz, which is a tar-ed and gnuzip-ed > archive. > > (c): > > tmv9601.tgz contains the source and precompiled binaries of the > dvipreviewer tmview, version v96.01. > It is ment as an update of version v95.10, which I've uploaded last > year. > > In detail: > ./tmview/README Manual > ./tmview/INSTALL Installation-guide > ./tmview/CHANGES History of Changes > ./tmview/MAILME my e-mail adress > ./tmview/VER9601 empty file, make people see the current version > ./tmview/Make* Makefiles for linux and OS2 > ./tmview/dvisvga binary for linux/svgalib > ./tmview/dvilbfpm.exe binary for OS2/PM > ./tmview/src common sourcefiles > ./tmview/linux linux only sources > ./tmview/OS2 os2 only sources > > > (d): > > I suggest to remove the old dviware/tmview/* (including subdirectories), > and place the new tmview v96.01 again in dviware/tmview. > (It should need less disk-space now, since all the svgalib-workarounds > became obsolete) I have installed the update in dviware/tmview as proposed For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Jan 26 04:27:15 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:05:07 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission Jens Kloecker writes: > Hello, > > I uploaded a debugged manual and manpage for SYNGEN on > > host: ftp.dante.de > dir: incoming/syngen > > The files are > > manual.(ps|dvi) > > and > > syngen.m > > and should be installed in > > tex-archive/support/syngen/doc > > and > > tex-archive/support/syngen/src, > > respectively. > > - Jens Kloecker Thanks, I installed the update Rainer Schöpf From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Fri Jan 26 20:41:34 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:50:06 +0100 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.02 released This announces version 1.02 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz'). This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.02 * Read the .tfm file before writing the .mf file destructively. This should allow a transparent two pass processing if MakeTeXTFM is enabled. Thanks to Thomas Esser for the suggestion. NEWS for Version 1.01 * new decoration shapes for vertices by popular demand: `cross' (also `triacross', `pentacross' and `hexacross'). * fixed a rounding bug in cut-off ends (noticeable as a spurious thin diagonal line at the left end of double lines). * The maximum size for shaded and hatched areas has been doubled by removing an obsolete speedup hack that was not used anymore. * In an unrelated move, shading and hatching has been reimplemented in a much more general fashion. Now arbitray tilings can be specified as argument to `decoration.filled='. The old style numerical arguments continue to work, but should be replaced by `empty', `full', `shaded', and `hatched' in new documents. -- Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7 http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B From noack@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de Fri Jan 26 16:56:46 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:46:39 +0100 (NFT) From: Cornelius C. Noack Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN upload ============================================================================== _|_ / | \ \_|_/ Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: _|_ ___ Inst. f. Theoret. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 | | | \ Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2965 |___| |___/ Kufsteiner Strasse Fax : -4869 | | | \ D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 | | |___/ PhyHB ============================================================================== X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 283 I noticed that /pbu/tex/info contains a fully antiquitated and misleading file (dating from 1993!) installing-emtex.txt There is now a new completely reorganized new version of EmTeX, with new installation procedures. So please have the above file deleted. ccn. From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Sat Jan 27 06:29:53 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 17:26:37 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: `mylatex.ltx' mylatex.ltx on ctan has been updated and moved. It is now in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle This has been installed at UK ctan, will reach others in due course. Here are the comments from the file %%% %%% mylatex.ltx %%% %%% Use this file to make a format based on the preamble of the %%% LaTeX file abc.tex %%% %%% Use initex as follows: %%% %%% initex &latex mylatex.ltx abc (Generic TeX) %%% initex \&latex mylatex.ltx abc (unix and other TeX's) %%% tex /i &latex mylatex.ltx abc (emtex) %%% %%% This should make a format file mylatex.fmt which you can then use %%% as follows %%% %%% tex &mylatex abc (generic TeX) %%% virtex \&mylatex abc (Unix TeX) %%% %%% This will process your document, abc.tex, just as LaTeX does, but %%% quicker as the contents of the preamble will be stored in the %%% format file and will not need to be run each time. %%% %%% If (vir)tex fails to find your mylatex.fmt then it is not searching %%% in the current directory, either modify your TEXFORMATS (or equivalent) %%% path to search `.' or (on unix/dos) use ./ as in: %%% virtex \&./mylatex abc %%% %%% %%% The file abc.tex must contain a line *just* with %%% \begin{document} %%% (In particular no comments on that line.) %%% Everything up to (but not including) the \begin{document} will %%% be saved in the format and not executed in subsequent runs. %%% %%% David Carlisle %%% 1994/09/27 %%% %%% Modified 1994/10/21 after comments by %%% Volker Kunert %%% Modified 1996/01/26 To fix printout of preloaded files (which %%% hasnt worked since December 94 release, and to fix %%% incompatibility with \makeindex command. %%% From michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca Sat Jan 27 14:57:54 1996 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:48:32 -0700 (MST) From: Michal Jaegermann Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: `mylatex.ltx' > %%% This should make a format file mylatex.fmt which you can then use > %%% as follows > %%% > %%% tex &mylatex abc (generic TeX) > %%% virtex \&mylatex abc (Unix TeX) I have to see yet a Unix installation on which 'mylatex abc' would not work after you did (once): ln -s `which virtex` mylatex and 'mylatex' link is in your PATH. 'mylatex.fmt' has to be in some directory listed in TEXFORMATS, which most likely does NOT include your current directory (but can be modified that way if you **really** want to). --mj From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Jan 29 03:42:45 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:32:07 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: fss@eworld.com, ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: TeXEd121.zip fss@eworld.com writes: > I've uploaded TeXEd121.zip last week into the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de > > Until now it is still there. (Perhaps you didn't got my mail, that's > the reason > why I write this one) No, I did not see any mail from you. > Please install (move) TeXEd121.zip into the systems/os2/texed > directory. > > This programm is written by myself and I have uploaded the almost > newest version > to dante since half a year. I installed the program in the indicated location. Thanks, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 30 00:48:16 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:12:45 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: David Carlisle Subject: Re: LaTeX graphics for plain users: upload to Cambridge David Carlisle writes: > Graphics code for non-LaTeX users. > ================================== > > This directory provides a small wrapper file such that users of > formats based on plain TeX may make use of some of the parts of the > standard LaTeX distribution. > > These files are *NOT* supported by the LaTeX3 project, and any > problems with them should *NOT* be reported to the LaTeX bugs system. > > Currently problems may be reported to me, carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk > although as I only ever use LaTeX for documents, these files have not > been extensively tested. If some plain TeX user wants to `adopt' them > and take over their support then they are welcome to it:-) I have installed the directory as macros/plain/graphics, with a link to macros/generic/graphics Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 29 21:10:06 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:16:45 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: "Wagner, Zdenek" Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- wetex Zdenek Wagner writes: > I have just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk to /incoming `wetex.zip' -- > WPS and EPM > support for emTeX under OS/2. I suggest to put it into directory > CTAN:/systems/os2/wetex -- do not put there wetex.zip but unpack it. > (It was compressed with Info-zip.) You get three files which should > be distributed: > > 00readme.txt > install.txt > wetex10a.txt > > Please let me know the exact location where you put it. I have installed the files in systems/os2/wetex, as suggested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 29 21:11:52 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:59:03 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: drucbert@onecert.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: minitoc package: confusing versions deleted There has recently been some discussion on comp.text.tex of duplicate copies of the minitoc package. I have now had some correspondence with Jean-Pierre Drucbert, who maintains the package, and at his request have deleted both macros/latex209/contrib/minitoc and macros/latex/contrib/other/minitoc Please note that we do not currently delete the 2.09 versions of packages except at the author's explicit request; however, authors are welcome at any time to request that an old version be deleted... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Wed Jan 31 06:40:20 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:23:42 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de Subject: Re: CTAN update: custom-bib LINPWD::DALY writes: > Hello, > > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > german.mbs > merlin.mbs > README.v36 > > Please copy these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing README.v35 and replacing the existing merlin.mbs and german.mbs > > Thanks, Patrick W. Daly > 1996 Jan 30 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 > Postfach 20 SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY > D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de > Germany > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 30 08:02:11 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:42:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Umeki Hideo writes: > I have uploaded a new version of LaTeX package PAGESIZE (ver.2.51) > to ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/ as `pagesize.sty-2.51'. > > Several bugs concerning paper size specification have been fixed. > Please replace /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/pagesize.sty > with the new one. I have installed the new version at the requested place, at ftp.tex.ac.uk It should propagate to other CTANs soon enough. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 1 04:13:26 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 15:58:25 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN submission: achemso update matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > Friends, > > a moment ago I uploaded to the DANTE CTAN node in > /incoming/achemso > the files > 00readme.acs > achemso.dtx > achemso.ins > which are to replace the files currently in the > .../latex/contrib/supported/achemso/ > directory. These files are an update of my `achemso' package for > LaTeX 2e which makes the package work with the December 1995 > release of LaTeX 2e. Also, the *.bst files have been incorporated > into the file achemso.dtx. > > >From the file 00readme.acs: > > >This is the file `00readme.acs', which accompanies the `achemso' > >package distribution. The package formats BibTeX output in > >accordance with the requirements of most journals of The American > >Chemical Society. It also provides a convenient LaTeX interface to > >be used with the BibTeX style file(s). To use the package, run LaTeX on > >`achemso.ins', this produces the files `achemso.sty', which contains > >the LaTeX macro definitions, the file `acslist.tex', which is a > >template file to produce a complete listing of a BibTeX data base, > >`achemso.bst' which is the main BibTeX style file of the package, > >and `achemsol.bst' which is a BibTeX style file to be used when > >producing complete BibTeX data base listings. To obtain the userguide > >and documentation, run LaTeX on `achemso.dtx' twice. > > > >The 'achemso' package consists of two files: > > achemso.ins - the installation driver > > achemso.dtx - the macro code, instructions on how to use > > the package, the listing template, and the > > BibTeX style files `achemso.bst' and > > `achemsol.bst' in `docstrip'-able format. > > Please feel free to re-distribute this message as you find > convenient. > > yours, > mats d. > > mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * > Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd Thanks, I installed the files as proposed. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 1 09:16:19 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:34:17 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de Subject: Re: Bug in custom-bib; another update LINPWD::DALY writes: > The updated version of merlin.mbs that was put onto CTAN 2 days ago > contains a bug, immediately reported by avid users. > > I have therefore put the corrected version onto /incoming/custom-bib > along with an updated README.v36a file. > > Please copy these two files to /latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing the file README.v36. > > Sorry about that. > > Patrick W Daly > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 > Postfach 20 SPAN: NSP::LINMPI::DALY > D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de > Germany > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks, I Installed the files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 1 23:50:27 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:36:40 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, turtle@diku.dk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Peter M|ller Neergaard writes: > Five minutes ago I uploaded a new package in the file semantic.zip for LaTeX2e > at ftp.dante.de. The zip-file quite ordinary contains a packagefile > (semantic.dtx) and a installation file (semantic.ins). > > The package should help typesetting notation used when describing the semantics > of programming Language. This includes macros for describing denotational > semantics, drawing inference rules and making translation charts. > > My suggestion would be to place it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/semantic. > > Hope this qualifies. > > Regards > > Peter > -- > __ _ > Peter Møller Neergaard / \-' ) ,,, No sin > Dept. of Computer Science | | ()|||||||[:::) No salvation > University of Copenhagen \__,-._) ''' - Calvin > E-mail: turtle@diku.dk WWW: http://www.diku.dk/students/turtle/ Thanks, I installed the files in the indicated location For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb 2 01:54:25 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:45:29 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Koaunghi Un writes: > Dear CTAN manager, > > After I've released Korean LaTeX package, I had to make new version as > many users request. Korean language is not simple one as English, we > need some more free storage places for our programme. Main problem was > the free spaces the user has. I've made old fonts available in this > version, which require small amount free space. I've made also > PostScript fonts available. > Following files are in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/HLaTeX > > HLaTeX-0.94.tar.gz > Johab-Hangul-pk300.tar.gz > Johab-Hangul-pk600.tar.gz > Johab-Hangul-tfm.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-afm.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-pfb.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz > > I want the file HLaTeX-0.94.tar.gz to be unpacked in the directory of > > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX > > and the other files to be moved to the directory of > > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX > > I thank you very much. > > With regards, > > ========================================================================= > Koaunghi Un > Zentrum f"ur Datenverarbeitung > Universit"at T"ubingen | E-mail: > Morgenstelle | Internet (zraun01@sunaps.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) > | Alternative (koaunghi.un@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de) > D-72074 T"ubingen | Telefon: +49-7071-296937 > Fed. Rep. of Germany | Fax: +49-7071-296936 > ========================================================================= > Thanks, I installed the files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb 2 02:41:30 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:50:08 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission: mpt, mp2.mft Ulrik Vieth writes: > > I've uploaded the file "mp2mft.tar" to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > This file unpacks into three files: > > * "mp2.mft" -- a MFT style file suitable for pretty-printing > MetaPost sources. It knows about the syntactic properties > of MetaPost primitives and the macros defined in "plain.mp" > and standard MetaPost packages like "graph.mp" or "boxes.mp". > > Since it also knows about the macros defined in "mfplain.mp", > the Metafont-compatible base file, it should be suitable > for pretty-printing plain METAFONT sources as well, perhaps > even better than the standard MFT style file "plain.mft". > > As an extra bonus, this style file also includes some TeX code > to modify the formatting of comment lines in MFT listings. > Comments are now formatted flush left/ragged right by default > unless a special character follows the comment sign to change > this behaviour. This seems to be a more suitable default for > block comments than the standard setup in MFT, but it is still > possible to produce flush right comments as well. > > This file is partly based on an earlier "mp.mft" written by > Andreas Scherer , > but largely rewritten and reorganized. > > * "mp2mft.sed" -- a script for "sed", the Unix stream editor, > to pre-process MetaPost sources containing verbatim TeX code > embedded between |btex ... etex| or |verbatimtex ... etex|. > In the MFT listing, TeX code will be presented as comments > at the end of lines containing |btex ... etex| since it might > otherwise mess up the MFT formatting of the MetaPost code. > > This file is based on an idea proposed by Andreas Scherer > , incorporating > minor corrections and improvements. > > * "mpt" -- a Unix shell script that may serve as a front end to > the standard "mft" program. It automatically checks whether > preprocessing with "sed" may be needed and does the conversion > using "mp2mft.sed" before invoking "mft". This shell script > isn't bullet-proof and doesn't try to catch all possible > problems. For the normal case, however, it should be more > convenient than doing it by hand. > > Since this script only requires "sed" and "grep" besides MFT, > it should be possible to come up with equivalent solutions > for other platforms, provided "sed" and "grep" are available. > However, I have no interest in working on that. > > On CTAN, all these files should be installed in the directory > graphics/metapost/contrib/misc, where "mp.mft" already resides. > > In a TDS-compatible installation, the file "mp2.mft" should be > installed in the directory $TEXMF/mft/, where the "mft" program > should be able to find it, if properly installed. > > The shell script "mpt" can be installed anywhere in your search > path, but you'll have to edit the file to specify the location > where you're going to install the file "mp2mft.sed". Due to > lack of any more suitable location, I'd recommend to put that > file in the $TEXMF/mft/ directory as well. > > Happy MetaPost'ing! > > Ulrik Vieth -- 1995/01/29 Thanks, I installed the files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 1 09:22:20 1996 Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 13:52:48 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Jens Toivo Berger Thielemann Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Jens Toivo Berger Thielemann writes: > Hi! I just uploaded ChkTeX to the CTAN network - here's the info you need: > > Site: ftp.dante.de > Files: chktex.tar.gz chktex.readme > Description: Finds typographic errors in LaTeX files. See also included=20 > readme. > Position: tex-archive/support/chktex > > Thanks. > > }\ /{ Troppsleder Ulven Speidergruppe/NSF // Amiga 1200/2MB/120MB > {o~o} Rover 2vr & 1r/V=E5lerenga Sp.gr./NSF \X/ PGP: 889FEE5F4481AE55 > (") ICBM address: N59=B056.25'. E10=B043.37' 418685BD14C02604 > U Phone: +47 22720333 BBS: +47 22733385 #include Thanks, I installed the file as proposed -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Feb 2 03:36:08 1996 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 09:24:21 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, turtle@diku.dk Subject: Re: CTAN submission Peter M|ller Neergaard writes: > Som minutes ago I uploaded a LaTeX2e-package "bbding.zip" (consisting of a > ".dtx"-file and a ".ins"-file) to the "\incoming" directory at fpt.dante.de. > It is addition to bbding-symbolfont set, which is already found at CTAN. By > naming all the symbols in the font it provides an easier interface. > > It is my impression, that style files for using a specific font is normally > placed together with the font, so my suggestion would be to place it in > tex-archive/fonts/bbding Thansk, I added the files to fonts/bbding -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Sysmgr@banyan.rmc.ca Sat Feb 3 06:30:38 1996 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 10:19:47 -0500 (EST) From: Sysmgr Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: schoepf@uni-mainz.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission: mpt, mp2.mft We are getting a lot of undelivered mail from you, but cannot identify the intended recipients. We have recently made changes to our account/addressing scheme, explaining why mail is intercepted by our gateway. Could you please send me a list of addresses, in your Mailing List, that belong to the rmc.ca domain and I will return the list of proper addresses. Thank you. Sgt Dan LaMalice Banyan Network Administrator Royal Military College of Canada E-Mail: lamalice-d@rmc.ca Ext. 6215 ------------- Original Text >From Rainer Schoepf , on 2/1/96 1:50 PM: ERROR: iSMTP COULD NOT FIND ANY RECIPIENT! PLEASE FORWARD THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE. ---------------------- Original Message Follows ---------------------- Ulrik Vieth writes: > > I've uploaded the file "mp2mft.tar" to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > This file unpacks into three files: > > * "mp2.mft" -- a MFT style file suitable for pretty-printing > MetaPost sources. It knows about the syntactic properties > of MetaPost primitives and the macros defined in "plain.mp" > and standard MetaPost packages like "graph.mp" or "boxes.mp". > > Since it also knows about the macros defined in "mfplain.mp", > the Metafont-compatible base file, it should be suitable > for pretty-printing plain METAFONT sources as well, perhaps > even better than the standard MFT style file "plain.mft". > > As an extra bonus, this style file also includes some TeX code > to modify the formatting of comment lines in MFT listings. > Comments are now formatted flush left/ragged right by default > unless a special character follows the comment sign to change > this behaviour. This seems to be a more suitable default for > block comments than the standard setup in MFT, but it is still > possible to produce flush right comments as well. > > This file is partly based on an earlier "mp.mft" written by > Andreas Scherer , > but largely rewritten and reorganized. > > * "mp2mft.sed" -- a script for "sed", the Unix stream editor, > to pre-process MetaPost sources containing verbatim TeX code > embedded between |btex ... etex| or |verbatimtex ... etex|. > In the MFT listing, TeX code will be presented as comments > at the end of lines containing |btex ... etex| since it might > otherwise mess up the MFT formatting of the MetaPost code. > > This file is based on an idea proposed by Andreas Scherer > , incorporating > minor corrections and improvements. > > * "mpt" -- a Unix shell script that may serve as a front end to > the standard "mft" program. It automatically checks whether > preprocessing with "sed" may be needed and does the conversion > using "mp2mft.sed" before invoking "mft". This shell script > isn't bullet-proof and doesn't try to catch all possible > problems. For the normal case, however, it should be more > convenient than doing it by hand. > > Since this script only requires "sed" and "grep" besides MFT, > it should be possible to come up with equivalent solutions > for other platforms, provided "sed" and "grep" are available. > However, I have no interest in working on that. > > On CTAN, all these files should be installed in the directory > graphics/metapost/contrib/misc, where "mp.mft" already resides. > > In a TDS-compatible installation, the file "mp2.mft" should be > installed in the directory $TEXMF/mft/, where the "mft" program > should be able to find it, if properly installed. > > The shell script "mpt" can be installed anywhere in your search > path, but you'll have to edit the file to specify the location > where you're going to install the file "mp2mft.sed". Due to > lack of any more suitable location, I'd recommend to put that > file in the $TEXMF/mft/ directory as well. > > Happy MetaPost'ing! > > Ulrik Vieth -- 1995/01/29 Thanks, I installed the files. -- Rainer Sch Zentrum f der Universit Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From g.tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au Fri Feb 9 02:14:37 1996 Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 17:39:54 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Tobin Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: G.Tobin@ee.latrobe.edu.au Subject: setspace package (update) for LaTeX (2e) Dear fellow members of the LaTeX users' community, CTAN has received a LaTeX (2e) version of setspace.sty, a package file for setting the line spacing for the whole or portions of a document. In this release, the global line spacing does not affect text in floats (tables and figures) or footnotes; these are normally single-spaced, as good typography usually requires. However, line spacing can be set locally, inside a float or a footnote, or in containers (localising groups and environments) such as captions, parboxes or minipages. CTAN location: macros/latex/contrib/supported/setspace/setspace.sty NOTE: This version deliberately does _NOT_ work in LaTeX 2.09. This version is intended to make obsolete (for users of the official LaTeX) all older setspace versions, and similar styles such as doublespace. Users of LaTeX 2.09 are urged to upgrade to the official LaTeX (2e). CAVEAT: setspace.sty hacks internals of LaTeX so it conceivably may break in future LaTeX releases. (Hint: This is due to lack of appropriate hooks in LaTeX's low-level float, footnote and mp-footnote code). REASON for update: The previous setspace had incompatibilities with the float and footnote code in LaTeX since at least the January 1992 release of LaTeX 2.09. The previous setspace was usable for _main body text only_ (not in documents containing tables, figures or footnotes) in LaTeX 2.09, LaTeX 2.09 plus NFSS1, and LaTeX (2e). Those who still wish to use and/or hack the previous setspace may find it renamed at CTAN as: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/gdgspace.sty The `gdg' prefix is in honour of contributions to setspace by George Greenwade (former maintainer of the USA's CTAN site). Best wishes! Geoffrey Tobin From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Feb 12 21:19:55 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:43:52 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Subject: Re: ftp.dante.de//incoming/jknappen TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes: > I have corrected a minor bug in the two files > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/latin1jk.def > latin3jk.def > concerning the handling of the cedilla. The new versions supercede > the old ones. I've just installed the files Rainer From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 09:04:04 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:46:29 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN submission: vrsion package update at dante node matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > Friends, > > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/vrsion an updated > version of my LaTeX package `vrsion'. The package (and upload) > consists of three files: 00readme.vrs (a "readme file") > vrsion.dtx (the package etc.) > vrsion.ins (installation driver) > The files submitted today are meant to replace the files > currently in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/vrsion > > The update fixes two bugs: Issuing of extra blank pages when the > `vrsion' package and the command `\maketitle' are used is > eliminated for article, report and book classes (at least); the > package is (again) compatible with the `babel' package. > > The `vrsion' package defines a command which produces > a version number in the .dvi-file when LaTeX is run. The version > number can be incremented at the unit, the tenths and the > hundredth level, and also kept constant when desired. > > happy TeXing! > mats d. > > > mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * > Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 03:59:29 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:46:45 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN submission: update of `chemsym' package matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > > Friends, > > Just a minute ago, I uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/chemsym > an update of the `chemsym' package. The upload and package > consistes of the files: 00readme.chs (a "read me" file) > chemsym.dtx (the package file) > chemsym.ins (installation driver) > These are meant to replace the files currently in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/chemsym > > The `chemsym' package facilitates writing chemical formulas > (consisting of chemical symbols) in LaTeX in a way the user never > need to worry about being in math mode or not -- the symbols are > always set upright. > > Todays upload contains a few extensions of the package and the > inclusion of a few warnings in the documentation. > > yours, > mats d. > > > mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * > Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 13 05:50:08 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:49:27 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, leis@usq.edu.au Subject: Re: CTAN Submission John W Leis writes: > > Hi (Rainer I think), > > I have submitted to site ftp.dante.de the following files: > > latexcad.txt - 2913 bytes, MS-DOS text > latexcad15.zip - 449,050 bytes, pkzip format archive > > These are replacements for the LATEXCAD package (LaTeX drawing), > currently on CTAN sites in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/latexcad > All files currently in that directory should be deleted. > > Thanks & regards, > john leis > > leis@usq.edu.au > Thanks, I installed the new files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Feb 24 03:28:33 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:49:27 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, leis@usq.edu.au Subject: Re: CTAN Submission John W Leis writes: > > Hi (Rainer I think), > > I have submitted to site ftp.dante.de the following files: > > latexcad.txt - 2913 bytes, MS-DOS text > latexcad15.zip - 449,050 bytes, pkzip format archive > > These are replacements for the LATEXCAD package (LaTeX drawing), > currently on CTAN sites in directory /tex-archive/systems/msdos/latexcad > All files currently in that directory should be deleted. > > Thanks & regards, > john leis > > leis@usq.edu.au > Thanks, I installed the new files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 02:11:15 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:47:55 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Tobias.Spribille@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Tobias Spribille writes: > Hello, > > I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de the file adrlist.tar. > It contains two files representing a macro package for use with LaTeX. > The Makro helps you in using address lists with LaTeX, e.g. in letters to > several recipients. It could be placed under > tex/macros/latex/contrib/other, either in a directory of its own, or into > the subdirectory misc. > > Greetings, > > Tobias > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | Tobias.Spribille@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de | > |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added | > | to it, there was trouble - for with it came syntax. (John Simon) | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks, I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/other/adrlist -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Feb 13 02:34:44 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:50:10 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Michael Mehlich Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Mehlich writes: > Hello, > > I just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz > It replaces the old version at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper > The new version is an adaption to the current versions > of latex and cweb. > > Greetings from Munich > Michael Mehlich > > Thanks, I installed the update -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Feb 17 14:54:25 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:50:10 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Michael Mehlich Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Mehlich writes: > Hello, > > I just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/hyper.tar.gz > It replaces the old version at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper > The new version is an adaption to the current versions > of latex and cweb. > > Greetings from Munich > Michael Mehlich > > Thanks, I installed the update -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 15 01:25:31 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:56:51 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission: aux-renum.el Ulrik Vieth writes: > > I've uploaded the file "aux-renum.el" on ftp.dante.de/incoming. > > This file provides some GNU Emacs macros for renumbering equation > labels and references in (multi-file) LaTeX documents, so that > they match their representation in the printed document. > > In the CTAN directory structure, this file probably belongs into > support/emacs-modes, but as that directory isn't particularly well > organized, I wouldn't mind if it were placed in a package-level > subdirectory somewhere below support/emacs-modes. I put the file into support/emacs-modes/aux-renum.el I agree with your sentiments about the contents of this directory, but I don't have the time right now to do a proper reorganization. Rainer Schöpf > Appended below is a descripition taken from the file itself. > This is all the documentation there is about it. > > Since this is my first attempt at programming in Emacs lisp, > I would appreciate bug-reports, comments and other feedback. > However, I don't really promise to support it. Be careful, > when using it! It could mess up your document sources when > something goes really wrong! > > Ulrik Vieth -- 1995/01/29 > > > ;;; aux-renum.el --- renumber labels in LaTeX documents > > ;; Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 Ulrik Vieth. > > ;; Author: Ulrik Vieth > ;; Keywords: tex, maint > ;; Version: 0.5 > > ;;; Commentary: > > ;; Description: > ;; > ;; This package provides two functions `aux-renumber-single' and > ;; `aux-renumber-multi' to renumber equation labels and references > ;; in LaTeX documents so that they match their representation in > ;; the ".aux" file(s) and the formatted document. > ;; > ;; Why would you want to do that? Well, consider a manuscript of > ;; a book containing several hundreds of equations spread across > ;; a dozen or more files. Since it is impossible to give reasonable > ;; names to so many equations, they may have been given some ad-hoc > ;; labels when the manuscript was typed. After completing some > ;; intermediate or final version that will be printed and possibly > ;; distributed, it may be convenient to renumber the labels so that > ;; you can directly refer to the equation numbers in the printed > ;; version without having to figure out what cryptic label to type > ;; to produce the desired equation number in subsequent edits. > ;; > ;; Another appilcation might be a manuscript of a paper that will > ;; be submitted electronically to a journal. To avoid confusion > ;; in subsequent correspondence with the journal editor, it might > ;; be advantageous if the labels match their representation in the > ;; paper copy submitted to the publisher. > ;; > > ;; Usage: > ;; > ;; 1. Load or autoload this file: > ;; > ;; (load-library "aux-renum") > ;; > ;; or > ;; (autoload 'aux-renumber-single "aux-renum" > ;; "Renumber labels in a single-file LaTeX document." t) > ;; (autoload 'aux-renumber-multi "aux-renum" > ;; "Renumber labels in a multi-file LaTeX document." t) > ;; > ;; 2. Run it interactively: > ;; > ;; M-x aux-renumber-single > ;; M-x aux-renumber-multi > ;; > > ;; Known Problems: > ;; > ;; - Operation is restricted to files in the current directory. > ;; This isn't easy to fix because the list of include files is > ;; constructed from the information in the master ".aux" file > ;; which doesn't include any directory information. > ;; > ;; - There are no checks to ensure that the replacement strings > ;; are unique. This shouldn't be a problem if the ".aux" files > ;; are correct and up-to-date, but it could mess up your files > ;; if several (presumably incorrectly placed) labels have the > ;; same representation, e.g. if they refer to a section number > ;; instead of an equation number. Check your ".aux" files or > ;; take your chances! > ;; > ;; - It is silently assumed that the labels in your ".aux" file > ;; follow certain conventions. This means that every label is > ;; considered an equation label unless it starts with a known > ;; prefix. The list of prefixes of labels that should be left > ;; unchaged is specified by the regexp `aux-exclude-regexp'. > ;; > ;; - The replacement function in `aux-process-tex-file' uses the > ;; high-level functions `find-file-noselect' and `save-buffer' > ;; to load and save ".tex" files, which perform all sorts of > ;; checks. This might lead to some unexpected user interaction > ;; if some safety checks need to be answered. This might be > ;; somewhat irritating, but it's only to be on the safe side. > ;; From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 23:54:53 1996 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:49:07 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: MS@Dream.HB.North.DE Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: prelim2e 1.10 Martin Schroeder writes: > I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have > Usenet access) to the incoming of > ftp.dante.de > the file > prelim2e.zip > containing the version 1.10 of prelim2e. > > Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name > ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- > 0 Stored 0 0% 13-02-96 20:57 00000000 prelim2e/ > 16631 Defl:X 4981 70% 13-02-96 20:53 5cb41bf9 prelim2e/prelim2e.dtx > 23724 Defl:X 7381 69% 13-02-96 20:55 ae3cbfe6 prelim2e/prelim2e.dvi > 2843 Defl:X 1086 62% 13-02-96 20:54 afc69af0 prelim2e/prelim2e.ins > ------ ------ --- ------- > 43198 13448 69% 4 > > It's contents should be stored in macros\latex\contrib\supported\prelim2e > > >From prelim2e.dtx: > %% =================================================================== > %% @LaTeX-package-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "1.10", > %% date = "1 January 1996", > %% filename = "prelim2e.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > %% D-28759 Bremen}, > %% telephone = "++49-421-628813", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions", > %% dependences = "everyshi, scrtime", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of > %% preliminary versions of a document" > %% . > %% } > %% =================================================================== > > Is there any way to send submission to CTAN via E-Mail? > > Thanks in advance > Martin > > -- > Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE > Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (Oscar Wilde) Thanks, the update has been installed as proposed. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Feb 14 22:39:32 1996 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 16:51:14 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, Andreas Tille Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Andreas Tille writes: > NEW VERSION OF CIRC > > I have upload in > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/circ/ circ.dtx, circ.ins, readme > > the package CIRC. > > NEW VERSION OF CIRC > > This is CIRC version 1.0[b]. > > The package \CIRC is a tool for typesetting circuit diagrams. It > defines several electrical symbols such as resistors, capacitors, > transistors etc. These symbols can be connected with wires in a > very easy way. > > For using \CIRC you only need \METAFONT and \LaTeX{}. You do not > need PostScript or any drawing tool. You can expand \CIRC easily > with your own symbols, written in \METAFONT. > > CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an > optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use > the macros and expand the package. > > It runs with LaTeX2e. > > To install \CIRC first run TeX on "circ.ins". > > Changes to CIRC 1.0[a] > ---------------------- > 1. circ.ins corrected to avoid errormessages while unpacking circ.dtx > 2. slightly improved documentation > 3. nothing else The update has been installed, thanks. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 19:10:40 1996 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:45:56 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: sojka@daeron.fi.muni.cz Subject: cp852.def Petr Sojka has submitted a file cp852.def, for use with the inputenc package (it relates to his bug report latex/2081). Speaking from pure ignorance, I presume that it deals with typing using a Czech-oriented keyboard... At David Carlisle's suggestion, I have installed it in a new directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/inputenc on ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate to the other CTANs shortly. Robin Fairbairns From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 19:22:31 1996 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:58:07 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: reckdahl@leland.Stanford.EDU Subject: Re: CTAN upload Keith Reckdahl writes: > I've loaded a new version of epslatex.ps into the > shsu \incoming directory. This should replace > the current version in the /tex-archive/info directory. > > The new version now documents the caption2 package. I've now (finally) installed this new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk: my apologies for the delay (which I've already explained to Keith). The updated version should propagate to the other CTANs soon. Robin Fairbairns From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 22 07:04:21 1996 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:20:53 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, John W Leis Subject: Re: CTAN Submission John W Leis writes: > I have just placed the files latexcad.txt (3 242 bytes) and latexcad16.zip > (449 266 bytes) on the CTAN mirror ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming > > These files are for the latex-cad package, version 1.6. They replace all > files currently in /systems/msdos/latexcad on CTAN mirrors. Thanks a lot, I installed the update. Rainer Schöpf From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Thu Feb 22 23:23:59 1996 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:47:50 +0100 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: feynmf-announce@MATH.AMS.ORG, feynmf-bugs@MATH.AMS.ORG, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.04 released This announces version 1.04 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz'). It is provided to wet your appetite with numerous examples. For WWW junkies, there are the first two parts of a three part tutorial available from CERN: http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/221/node63.html This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.04 * Finally, \fmffixed{(dx,whatever)}{v1,v2} and \fmffixed{(whatever,dy)}{v1,v2} do what you would expect them to. \fmffixedx and \fmffixedy are new synonyms for those. NEWS for Version 1.03 * It is no longer necessary to protect TeX command sequences with \noexpand. Old files using \noexpand will continue to work. -- Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7 http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 05:50:07 1996 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:25:28 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: akgoel@uwaterloo.ca Subject: CTAN upload: ltablex.sty Some very long time ago, Anil K Goel uploaded a file ltablex.sty to SHSU, and asked that it be installed. In the general chaos that has surrounded the operation of SHSU for some time, the request got lost, and then the file disappeared. Anil has now supplied us with a new copy, and I have installed it at ftp.tex.ac.uk as macros/latex/contrib/supported/ltablex/ltablex.sty (It's a pretty small file, so ought to propagate without too many problems.) My apologies on behalf of the whole team that it's taken this long; and thanks to Anil for the file, and for his patience... The file says of itself: %% The file modifies the tabularx environment to %% combine the features of the tabularx package %% (auto-sized columns in a fixed width table) %% with those of the longtable package %% (multi-page tables). %% %% The tables are typeset using the tabularx environment %% and the longtable environment is used internally to %% handle multi-page tables. The \setlongtables feature %% is used, and, therefore, the document should be %% run through latex twice. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 2 21:23:28 1996 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:38:37 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Miguel.Alabau@labri.u-bordeaux.fr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- progkeys Miguel Alabau writes: > I have updated a set of LaTeX style files that I submitted last > year. Robin Fairbairns indicated some enhancements that I have > included. > > The submitted files are contained in an archive called > 'progkeys.tar.gz'. Its contents are given below: > > progkeys/ > progkeys/demo/ --------- demo program > progkeys/demo/prog2.tex > progkeys/demo/prog3.tex > progkeys/demo/demo.tex > progkeys/demo/prog1.tex > progkeys/latex2e/ --------- LaTeX2e files > progkeys/latex2e/keywords.dtx > progkeys/latex2e/keywords.ins > progkeys/latex2e/programs.dtx > progkeys/latex2e/programs.ins > progkeys/README --------- ASCII documentation > progkeys/latex/ --------- LaTeX2.09 files > progkeys/latex/keywords.doc > progkeys/latex/keywords.ins > progkeys/latex/programs.doc > progkeys/latex/programs.ins > > The files are intended for typesetting programs (programs.sty) and > keywords (keywords.sty) in a very easy and convenient manner. The > files are self-documented; however I have included a README file for a > fast use. I have rearranged the files somewhat, since Miguel's layout doesn't match that of the archive, and installed them all at ftp.tex.ac.uk The version for LaTeX is on macros/latex/contrib/supported/progkeys, and the demo directory is a subdirectory of it. The version for LaTeX 2.09 is on macros/latex209/contrib/progkeys, which also has a demo subdirectory. I also edited the README file somewhat to make a version for each of the directories. Thanks, Miguel, for taking on my suggestions; I hope the rearrangement is satisfactory for you! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 2 06:21:51 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 13:55:59 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Philip Hirschhorn Subject: Re: CTAN upload: exam.sty In _November_ (we, or more likely SHSU's mailer, lost his mail) Philip Hirschhorn wrote: > I've just uploaded the files exam.sty, examdoc.tex, and examdoc.dvi to > ftp.shsu.edu, intending this as a contribution to CTAN. I created the > directory /incoming/exam, and placed the files into this new > directory. Incidentally, Philip had noticed that his /incoming/exam had become /incoming/.exam, without anything else happening to it. This is because (a) we can't delete directories on /incoming, due to a witty part of SHSU's configuration, and (b) it helps us, when telnetted to SHSU, not to see directories we don't understand (or have already dealt with... If the same has happened to one of *your* directories, with no intervening installation, feel free to let the CTAN team know, via ctan@shsu.edu; sooner or later the message will get through to one of us, and your stuff will get installed (SHSU's /incoming is mirrored in Europe). > exam.sty is the documentstyle that I wrote for creating exams, and > examdoc.tex is the documentation for it. exam.sty was written as a > documentstyle for LaTeX 2.09, but it also works well under LaTeX2e. > I would recommend creating the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/exam and placing the files into > that directory. > > exam.sty is a documentstyle that makes it easy to prepare exams. It > provides for easy customization of headers, footers, text width and > height, different treatment for the first page and for the last page, > and a number of other features. Most of what this style provides can > be obtained using other style files, but what distinguishes this one > is that it was written specifically to be easy to use for > non-technically oriented LaTeX users. (It also provides a few > features that I haven't seen anywhere else.) It comes with a > documentation file (examdoc.tex) that (I hope) clearly explains to the > novice how to use the features of exam.sty. > > Among its features: > > The style will automatically format and number the questions, > parts of questions, and subparts of questions, while making it easy > to refer to specific questions by number in any special directions > you need to print on the exam. > > You can include the point value of each question (or part, or > subpart), with your choice of having the point values either at the > beginning of the text of the question or in the left margin. > > You can specify the header in three parts: The left head, the > center head, and the right head. The left head is left justified, > the center head is centered, and the right head is right justified, > and one or all of these can be omitted. > > The footer is also specified in three parts: Left justified, > centered, and right justified. > > The header and footer for the first page can be different from > the ones used on other pages. > > Both headers and footers can contain more than one line. To > accommodate headers and footers with many lines, simple commands are > provided to increase the parts of the page devoted to the header > and/or the footer, and these commands can give one amount of space > on the first page and a different amount of space on all other > pages. > > You can have a horizontal rule at the base of the header and/or > at the top of the footer. > > Macros are defined to allow you to state the total number of > pages in the exam and to change the header and/or footer that > appears on the last page of the exam. Now, many moons later, I've finally installed the stuff here at ftp.tex.ac.uk, in the place suggested. Paul has already had profuse apologies from me... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 29 13:01:41 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:04:01 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Philip Hirschhorn Subject: Re: CTAN upload: exam.sty I wrote: > Paul has already had profuse apologies from me... Whereas I (of course) meant Philip. My brain is plainly not entirely in working order just now. Robin Fairbairns From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 23:50:50 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:37:15 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se Subject: Re: CTAN upload at Dante: floatflt update matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > > Friends, > > a short while ago, i uploaded to the dante node in > /incoming/floatflt > a few files which are an update of the `floatflt' package. the > files submitted are to replace the files currently in the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/floatflt > > >This is the file `00readme.flt', which accompanies the `floatflt' > >package distribution. The package defines environments for figures > >and tables which do not span the full width of a page. The 'floatflt' > >package is is an extension of Thomas Kneser's style option 'floatfig.sty' > >for LaTeX 2.09, on which it is based. To use the package, run LaTeX on > >`floatflt.ins', this produces the files `floatflt.sty', which contains > >the macro definitions, and the file `delex.tex', which is an example > >of the use of the package. To obtain the userguide and documentation, > >run LaTeX on `floatflt.dtx' twice. To obtain the example, run LaTeX > >on `floatexm.tex' twice. > > mats d. > > mats dahlgren * "..skillnaden var bara den, att hennes * > Royal Institute of Technology * kunskaper var nyttiga och oordnade, * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * medan professorns var onyttiga och * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * ordnade." - Karin Boye i _Kris_ * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Mar 1 00:26:09 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:41:40 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.5 Juergen Vollmer writes: > Dear CTAN maintainers, > > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.5 > the following files > THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.5 > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > Makefile > README.draftcopy > > which replace former revisions of this package. > > Here's a short description: > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file > `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > Changes since 2.3: > - - Thanks to a volunteers, I got many new translations of the word DRAFT, but > still > not all languages have correct translations. > > - - The package should now work also with the `dvipsone' graphics driver. Here I > also > need volunteeres to test other drivers. (dvips worked before) > > These files should be placed in the `latex2e/contrib/supported' hierarchy. > > With best regards > > Juergen Vollmer > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2i > Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. > > iQCVAwUBMTQ05Ih48drK23N9AQFWEwQAtwUYA5w4eZFB3VbkUF4UbSpPshFkeBJQ > LrqJEDFIow8b1JRo6wSuXFUSm47Mdz3bpjmizn0DGsfiRX0j6pK29cm1n3bvZiaT > 3r/D8Yk4GOIg5ktYT4fFAHhJmBtltRKOSyRn5deQBcouHxW27lwwzJMYcBrd9Gqm > XCL6fpz7aV4= > =1mv2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thanks a lot, I installed the update For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 21:52:11 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:53:31 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: asnd@reg.triumf.ca Subject: Re: CTAN submissions: titleref.sty (new) url.sty (bug fix) Donald Arseneau writes: > I just uploaded files to the Dante:incoming directory. > > There is an erroneous "url.sty", the correct "URL.sty", and "titleref.sty". > > url.sty: error--old version-- please delete > URL.sty: new version, please move to macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/url.sty > (note lowercase of destination name) > titleref.sty New sty file, please move to > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty > > What they do: > > === url.sty: === > > % url.sty ver 1.1 6-Feb-1996 Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca > % A form of \verb that allows linebreaks at certain characters ... > changed: > % Fix hyphens that wouldn't break and ligatures that weren't suppressed. > > > === titleref.sty: === > > % TITLEREF.STY ver 1.0 1996-02-16 Donald Arseneau > % Define a "\titleref" command to cross-reference the titles of sections. > % Use "\titleref" just like "\ref" and "\pageref". > I installed the files. > I notice some pre-release copies of url.sty in the tds directories. > They could probably be replaced with links to the official version, > or just left alone. Hmm, the tds directories are mirror copies of the stuff at ftp.th-darmstadt.de. > Hey, I get as fast response to Dante as I get to SHSU! Glad to hear it. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Feb 29 15:51:56 1996 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 17:58:21 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: cschenk@berlin.snafu.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Christian Schenk writes: > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/miktex: > > cx103.zip Packed font files for 300dpi laser printers > dvips103.zip dvips input files > fonts1For the CTAN team 04.zip Font source files (CM & DC) > latex104.zip LaTeX2e base distribution and format file > mfin103.zip METAFONT input files > mkind103.zip MakeIndex input files > mktx103b.zip METAFONT base file > mktx104f.zip TeX plain format file > mktx104i.zip Executable files (intel) > mktx104s.zip Sources > texin103.zip TeX input files > tfm103.zip Font metric files > vf103.zip Virtual font files > > MiKTeX 1.04 is an implementation of TeX, METAFONT and DVIPS for > Windows NT and Windows 95. > > I recommend placing the files in /tex-archive/systems/win32. > > Regard, > Christian > > -- > Christian Schenk > I installed the package as systems/win32/miktex -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 2 02:39:37 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 11:16:40 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- bengali Muhammad Masroor Ali writes: > [...] > (c) Overview: Sgaon font was developed by Anisur > Rahman for Bengali language and perhaps > it was the first and only Bengali > font in public domain. This font has > found application in various packages > including itrans. But the sgaon font lacks > some essential characters. The submitted arosgn > package contains tfm and pk font files > for the missing characters, one style > file for LaTeX interface, an > introductory document and last but > not the least the README file. > > (d) Placement: In the directory /language under the > tex-archive. Creation of a new directory > tex-archive/language/bengali is requested. > and > (b) File: bngtoday.sty. This file is of zero size. > As a matter of fact, while transferring this > file, the connection broke, and later on > I failed to remove zero size one. Now > the actual contents can be found in > REALbngtoday.sty. I am sorry for this > unwanted trouble. > > (c) Overview: Style file for printing western dates in > Bangla/Bengali in LaTeX. I've installed both of these in language/bengali, as suggested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar 1 22:57:52 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 12:51:29 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: dr. H. van der Meer Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Hans van der Meer writes: > I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming directory two files: > > 1. exams.tar.gz = an update on the exams package currently residing in > macros/latex/..supported; for maintaining and production of student's > exams. > 2. slidenotes.tar.gz = a cls intended for placement in the same directory; > for production of amply annotated slides. I have installed the files from both archives (after renaming the readmes as exam.readme and slidenotes.readme) at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/latex/contrib/supported/exams (which is what I understood Hans wanted). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar 2 03:02:52 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:46:53 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Jens T. Berger Thielemann Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- ChkTeX Jens T. Berger Thielemann writes: > > Site: ftp.dante.de > Files uploaded: chktex.tar.gz chktex.readme > Short: v1.3. Finds typographic errors in LaTeX > Long: > This program was written in frustration of that some constructs in > LaTeX are sometimes non-intuitive, and easy to forget. It is *not* a > replacement for the built-in checker in LaTeX; however, it catches > some typographic errors LaTeX oversees. In other words, it is Lint > for LaTeX. Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of > CWEB documents. > > Directory: support/chktex > > Please also rename the old files in that directory to chktex12.tar.gz and > chktex12.readme. This way, chktex.tar.gz and chktex.readme will always > contain the latest version. > > }\ /{ Troppsleder Ulven Speidergruppe/NSF // Amiga 1200/2MB/120MB > {o~o} Rover 2vr & 1r/Vålerenga Sp.gr./NSF \X/ PGP: 889FEE5F4481AE55 > (") ICBM address: N59°56.25'. E10°43.37' 418685BD14C02604 > U Phone: +47 22720333 BBS: +47 22733385 #include > I replaced the whole directory with the new version. Thanks a lot For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar 2 02:58:35 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:56:36 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Tomas Bautista Subject: Re: Una Descripci'on de LaTeX2e Tomas Bautista writes: > Dear Sirs, > > In I have uploaded the source > files of the document "Una Descripcion de LaTeX2e", which is a tutorial > of LaTeX2e in Spanish language, originally translated from Mr. Tobias > Oetiker, Dr. Hubert Partl, Ms. Irene Hyna and Ms. Elizabeth Schlegel's > "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e." > > I would suggest to install it under . > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Greetings from the Canaries, > > Tomas. > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Tomas Bautista E-mail: bautista@cma.ulpgc.es > Phone: +34 28 451275 -- Fax: +34 28 451243 > WWW Home Page: > Division de CAD del Centro de Microelectronica Aplicada > Campus Univ. de Tafira, pab. A. E-35017 Las Palmas, Canary Islands > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot, I installed your contribution as proposed For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Sat Mar 2 02:57:49 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:59:46 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de, Roland Schmehl Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.6 Juergen Vollmer writes: > Dear CTAN maintainers, > > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.6 > the following files > THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.6 > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > Makefile > README.draftcopy > > which replace former revisions of this package. > > Here's a short description: > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file > `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > Changes since 2.5 > - - now it works also for the old release 5.472 of dvips. > > I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various > languages. Simply send me an email with translations. > > With best regards > > Juergen Vollmer Thanks a lot, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Sat Mar 2 04:27:10 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 14:46:29 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX2e <1995/12/01> patch level 2 A very small update to LaTeX has been placed on the dante server and will reach other ctan hosts and mirrors in due course. This updates some files in the base tools and mfnfss distributions as described in below, and in patches.txt in the distribution. At the same time the graphics files have had some updates, primarily to fix some problems in the Textures support, and also to fix the preformated documentation, grfguide.ps, which had unfortunately been produced with a badly configured dvips that `forced' A4 paper size and made the file unprintable in North America. The main details from patches.txt are reproduced here: ======================================================================= Changes to the kernel in LaTeX2e <1995/12/01> patch level 2 ----------------------------------------------------------- (1996/02/29) %%% %%% None %%% Changes to non-kernel files in LaTeX <1995/12/01> -------------------------------------------------- This section details files that have changed in the `base', `tools' and `mfnfss' distributions. Updates to the `babel' `psnfss', `amslatex' and `graphics' distributions will be announced separately, if necessary. Patch Level 2 ============== base/slides.dtx Fix \cline in slides class latex/2067 base/inputenc.dtx Fixes to \c{}, cp850, latin2 latex/2077/2079/2080 base/yandytex.txt Updated instructions supplied by Y & Y base/multitex.txt Updated supplied by Markus Kohm, latex/2051 unpacked/slides.def unpacked/ansinew.def unpacked/applemac.def unpacked/cp437.def unpacked/cp437de.def unpacked/cp850.def unpacked/latin1.def unpacked/latin2.def unpacked/next.def tools/longtable.dtx Fix \hline in tabular inside longtable. tools/2068 mfnfss/oldgerm.dtx Added <10.95> size for mfnfss/2076 ======================================================================= David Carlisle LaTeX3 project From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 2 06:57:21 1996 Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 11:47:08 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: dr. H. van der Meer Subject: Re: CTAN Submission > Hans van der Meer writes: > > > I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming directory two files: > > > > 1. exams.tar.gz = an update on the exams package currently residing in > > macros/latex/..supported; for maintaining and production of student's > > exams. > > 2. slidenotes.tar.gz = a cls intended for placement in the same directory; > > for production of amply annotated slides. > > I have installed the files from both archives (after renaming the > readmes as exam.readme and slidenotes.readme) at ftp.tex.ac.uk in > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/exams > > (which is what I understood Hans wanted). But it turned out that it wasn't what Hans wanted... I've moved the slidenotes stuff into macros/latex/contrib/supported/slidenotes (which is a new directory) Sorry for the confusion Robin Fairbairns From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sun Mar 10 03:00:11 1996 Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 23:48:02 -0300 (MET) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors). It will be soon available in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Additionally a JIS X 0212 bitmap font (jisksp40.tar.gz) is now available in the directory tex-archive/fonts/CJK-fonts . Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ======================================================================== Version 3.1.0: new: 20-Feb-1996 MakeTeXPK now supports DC (and TC) 1.2 fonts. JIS supplement character set (JIS X 0212-1990) implemented. hbf2gf config file j2so12.cfg (for a JIS X 0212 font) added. New parameter for hbf2gf: slant. Note that slanted fonts are not common for CJK languages and should be used only in special situations. Documentation about Japanese TeX systems and how to handle Japanese with CJK contributed by TANAKA Shinichiro . An introduction into the CJK package in Chinese contributed by Lee Chun-Yu . Consequently the outdated README.bg5 together with bg5_test.tex has been removed. ntu2cjk version 1.3 . CEF example added. changed: MULEenc.sty, mule2cjk: \textcdot dropped; replaced with \textperiodcentered. MULEenc.sty: definition of \textregistered dropped since it is defined for all encodings in the latest LaTeX2e release. CJK.sty: \nbs is now defined as a shorthand for \nobreakspace. \space's added to font size functions analogously to the latest LaTeX release. mule2cjk: \nbs replaced with \nobreakspace. maketexp.btm: small enhancements. f_name.bat: slightly modified to make it run under 4DOS too. hbf2gf: hbf.c updated to latest hbf version (17-Oct-1995). errors: maketexp.btm: the ttfdir environment variable in the created fonts.btm file was not set. Oh, oh, font creation with hbf2gf also didn't work... at one place two `%%' used instead of one. UJISwn.fd should now search for the right fonts. *.cap: erroneously contained \@undefined instead of \undefined. JIS.cap: completely broken (sigh). Unbalanced \if... statements caused unrecoverable errors. From masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp Sat Mar 9 03:00:58 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 12:28:04 +0900 From: Muhammad Masroor Ali Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN Submission -- bengali > > (d) Placement: In the directory /language under the > > tex-archive. Creation of a new directory > > tex-archive/language/bengali is requested. > > > > and > > > (b) File: bngtoday.sty. This file is of zero size. > > As a matter of fact, while transferring this > > > > (c) Overview: Style file for printing western dates in > > Bangla/Bengali in LaTeX. > > I've installed both of these in language/bengali, as suggested, at > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > Robin Fairbairns > > For the CTAN team Thanks a lot for your effort and time. I am sorry to bother you but I think that there was a slight misunderstanding. I wanted arosgn package to be installed under tex-archive/language/bengali. What I failed to mention was, if the tar file, arosgn2.0.tar.gz is uploaded as it is, it is okay to keep it under tex-archive/language/bengali. But if the tar file is unpacked, a subdirectory called arosgn2.0 under tex-archive/language/bengali should be created and the untarred files should be placed under this directory. (May be it was a mistake in my part not to explicitly mention it. I was under the impression that arosgn2.0.tar.gz will be uploaded as it is. If it is okay with you, please upload arosgn2.0.tar.gz as it is.) Placement of bngtoday.sty is okay. Thanks a lot for your earliest attention, Regards, Masroor From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Mar 9 05:24:46 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 07:31:29 -0300 (MET) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l@omega.fr Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and its mirrors). It will be soon available in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Additionally a JIS X 0212 bitmap font (jisksp40.tar.gz) is now available in the directory tex-archive/fonts/CJK-fonts . Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ======================================================================== Version 3.1.0: new: 20-Feb-1996 MakeTeXPK now supports DC (and TC) 1.2 fonts. JIS supplement character set (JIS X 0212-1990) implemented. hbf2gf config file j2so12.cfg (for a JIS X 0212 font) added. New parameter for hbf2gf: slant. Note that slanted fonts are not common for CJK languages and should be used only in special situations. Documentation about Japanese TeX systems and how to handle Japanese with CJK contributed by TANAKA Shinichiro . An introduction into the CJK package in Chinese contributed by Lee Chun-Yu . Consequently the outdated README.bg5 together with bg5_test.tex has been removed. ntu2cjk version 1.3 . CEF example added. changed: MULEenc.sty, mule2cjk: \textcdot dropped; replaced with \textperiodcentered. MULEenc.sty: definition of \textregistered dropped since it is defined for all encodings in the latest LaTeX2e release. CJK.sty: \nbs is now defined as a shorthand for \nobreakspace. \space's added to font size functions analogously to the latest LaTeX release. mule2cjk: \nbs replaced with \nobreakspace. maketexp.btm: small enhancements. f_name.bat: slightly modified to make it run under 4DOS too. hbf2gf: hbf.c updated to latest hbf version (17-Oct-1995). errors: maketexp.btm: the ttfdir environment variable in the created fonts.btm file was not set. Oh, oh, font creation with hbf2gf also didn't work... at one place two `%%' used instead of one. UJISwn.fd should now search for the right fonts. *.cap: erroneously contained \@undefined instead of \undefined. JIS.cap: completely broken (sigh). Unbalanced \if... statements caused unrecoverable errors. From berwin@alphasun.anu.edu.au Mon Mar 4 19:36:48 1996 Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 10:36:21 +1100 From: Berwin A. Turlach Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] >>>>> "Lemberg" == Lemberg Werner writes: Lemberg> I've uploaded version 3.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN Lemberg> hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu and Lemberg> its mirrors). Your bloody mail-tool :) inserts a wrong Content-Length line into your mail. This can screw up other mail-tools as for example mine. All messages in my mailbox following yours were merged together into one single big mail and I had a hell of a time to sort them out again. Please fix your mail-tool. Best wishes, Berwin =============================== Full address ================================ Berwin A. Turlach Statistics Tel.: +61 (6) 249 0706 (Secr.) Centre for Mathematics and its Applications +61 (6) 249 0731 (direct) The Australian National University FAX : +61 (6) 249 5549 Canberra ACT 0200 e-mail: berwin@alphasun.anu.edu.au Australia From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Tue Mar 5 09:14:17 1996 Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 14:26:44 -0300 (MET) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK 3.1.0 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] Sorry for any inconvenience! I've no idea about the inner workings of elm on the Convex 210 here in Linz, but it seems that only you have this problem - from which mailing list did you receive the message? Werner From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 6 23:11:57 1996 Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 16:47:07 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: dave@dogwood.com Subject: Dave Cornejo: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror This is very good news indeed for North American users of CTAN, and those who rely on CTAN further afield. We are most grateful to Dave for the effort he has put in to get this mirror running, and to Walnut Creek for offering the resources. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:26:16 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Cornejo Message-Id: <199603061526.HAA09332@white.dogwood.com> To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror Organization: Dogwood Media The CTAN mirror at Walnut Creek CDROM is now in sync with the CTAN UK site. WC CDROMs ftp site is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and has excellent connectivity throughout North America (via multiple T3s) and currently allows 1250 FTP connections (no waiting!). You can get to the mirror at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/ or http://www.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/ All sites outside the UK and Germany are invited (and encouraged) to use this mirror. Please feel free to redistribute this announcement. - -- Dave Cornejo There is nothing so subtle Dogwood Media as the obvious Fremont, California ------- End of Forwarded Message From hkennedy@ncat.edu Thu Mar 7 17:10:12 1996 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:32:41 -0500 (EST) From: Helen A. Kennedy Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Dave Cornejo: Announcing a North American CTAN mirror I don't know if this is good news. I can never get on this site. Looks like europe is still my closest connection. Helen hkennedy@ncat.edu > > This is very good news indeed for North American users of CTAN, and > those who rely on CTAN further afield. We are most grateful to Dave > for the effort he has put in to get this mirror running, and to Walnut > Creek for offering the resources. > > Robin Fairbairns From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 9 07:11:02 1996 Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 12:04:12 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk, dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission > have just sent Version 1.0q of the Camel citation manager to > CTAN. This is an experimental set of LaTeX style files and a > BibTeX style which enhance bibliography handling in various > ways. It includes a helpful user guide. This is a bugfix > upgrade in which ... a few bugs have been fixed. > > The release has been copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming, > to the file camel.tar.gz. This file also contains the index.dtx > and index.ins files for a prerelease version of David M. Jones' > LaTeX2e-ified index.sty, which is necessary for Camel to run. > It is included because I can't find the release version of > David's package anywhere public. I've included it in the installation. David, would you like to make a disclaimer announcement, or would you like to submit your present state? > The files in the camel.tar.gz archive should be copied to > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel. Installed as suggested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From rajeev@netcom.com Sun Mar 10 23:13:38 1996 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 20:10:10 -0800 From: Rajeev Karunakaran Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ctan@shsu.edu Subject: PageDraw 2.0 uploaded I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the following files -- incoming/pagedraw/pgdraw20.zip incoming/pagedraw/pgdraw20.txt This is the latest version of PageDraw drawing program. This should replace PageDraw 1.7 (pgdraw17.zip and pgdraw17.txt). Please e-mail me if there are any questions. Rajeev Rajeev Karunakaran e-mail: rajeev@netcom.com From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 04:53:07 1996 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:33:40 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: tex-archive@math.utah.edu, schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de, piet@cs.ruu.nl Subject: Re: New release of filehdr package Nelson H. F. Beebe writes: > I've just installed these new files on ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib: > > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 793 Mar 6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.tar-lst > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 150067 Mar 6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.tar.z > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 113394 Mar 6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zip > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 975 Mar 6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zip-lst > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 166351 Jan 29 07:40 filehdr-1.28.zoo > -rw-rw-r-- 2 beebe 767 Mar 6 13:39 filehdr-1.28.zoo-lst > -rw-r--r-- 1 beebe 68969 Mar 5 19:04 filehdr.el > > This is a major update of the file header package, the first > released outside my local site since October 1993. It includes > support for several dozen new file classes and extensions, and > adds a URL field in the file header. > > Thanks to Ulrik Vieth for the gentle prodding that an update was > due. I've installed a copy of this stuff on CTAN at tools/filehdr; that directory contains an expanded copy of the .tar.z archive, with one exception (see below). Users who want one of the archive formats can obtain it using the usual CTAN auto-archiving facilities (which will offer .tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, .zip or .zoo). Nelson's archives offered an rcs.sty, which prompted me to find that there were _three_ (supposedly distinct) rcs.sty files on CTAN. After consultation with the owners (Nelson, Piet van Oostrum and Joachim Schrod), the following changes have occurred: tools/filehdr has a link to Joachim's macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcs, rather than the rcs.sty file it originally had macros/latex209/contrib/misc/rcs.sty has been deleted Joachim's rcs.sty offers a superset of what the other two .sty files offered. My thanks to all concerned for a speedy resolution to that issue, and everyone's thanks are owed to Nelson for the update to his stuff. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 06:02:51 1996 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:51:50 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN submission Frank Bennet writes: > I have placed the file "camelNEW.tar.gz" on CTAN. This is a > fresh, bugfixed copy of the Camel citation management package, > at version 1.0r. This is a bugfix release that ... fixes a > couple of nasty bugs. This release is also the first to > call on David Carlisle's "keyval" package --- note that the > size of the Camel archive has dropped just a little; that is > the result of ditching the built-in parsing code. > > The archive generates no subdirectories. It should be unpacked > in: > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/camel > > Unless I find other problems, the only changes that will be > made to Camel between now and the release of BibTeX 1.0 will > be code-cleanup releases in which commentary is improved > and further savings on space are made. I have installed this new version to replace the installation I made on Friday (just before I had to leave work early). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@cs.man.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 06:35:53 1996 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:22:52 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: LaTeX package to typeset HTML Robin has just installed my html package at the UK ctan. macros/latex/contrib/supported/html.ins macros/latex/contrib/supported/html.dtx the 00readme.txt file in that directory says ... html.dtx html.ins Typeset HTML (ie World Wide web documents) directly from LaTeX. Process the file html.ins to produce the html.sty package file. Process the file html.dtx to produce examples, documentation and code listings. Currently this package can handle almost all of HTML2, and most of the math fragment of the draft HTML3. I just wrote this in the last few days in answer to a comp.text.tex question, but it seems to work so I thought I may as well let it out. David From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Mon Mar 11 13:33:11 1996 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:54:24 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: typehtml package (was html package) The html package that I announced this morning has just undergone a name change to avoid a clash with the existing package in the latex2html distribution (which I knew about but managed to forget:-) So it is now `typehtml' for typesetting html, to be found at ctan:macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/* David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 13 08:19:19 1996 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:09:47 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: G.Tobin@latrobe.edu.au, David Carlisle , Donald Arseneau Subject: LaTeX 2.09 files removed/corrected At David Carlisle's request, I have removed from CTAN the files: info/elm.tex macros/latex209/contrib/misc/elm.tex here.sty numdef.sty In the course of doing this, I noticed that the links from that directory for Donald Arseneau's cite.sty, drftcite.sty, overcite.sty and chapterbib.sty were incorrect: I've corrected them. Furthermore, the link for setspace.sty pointed to the old (unsupported) version, which has been deleted. The new version (by Geoffrey Tobin) requires current LaTeX, and the link has therefore been removed. The file companion.ctan was also still pointing to the wrong version, so I've installed a new version of that too. Note that none of the links would have turned up in quote site index. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 14 09:45:16 1996 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:36:49 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: heilmayr@math.berkeley.edu, mprogers@math.ilstu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Some long time ago, Stepha Heilmayr wrote: > Hi. I've just uploaded a bunch of files to the directory > bakoma_mac_bitmap_fonts in the Incoming directory. There's a README file > that explains what's in there. What it is is bitmap fonts that allow the > BaKoMa postscript versions of the AMS fonts to be used on a Macintosh. The > suggested location for these files is: ... Something not `current' (due to the strange state of SHSU) In response to me, he later wrote: > Well, I looked around the UK archive, and the bakoma fonts (both CM and > AMS) are at: > > fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma > > so my suggestion would be: > > fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/mac/bitmap > > All the files in the tar archive I uploaded (except for the text files) are > stuffed and binhexed (the standard macintosh archiving format). I've duly installed the stuff as now requested. It will no doubt take ages to get to SHSU -- if nothing happens in a reasonable time, mail me and I'll try to be more dynamic in respect of it. The stuff should make it to ftp.cdrom.com tonight, though. I didn't get the README you mentioned in your first message. If you'd care to resend it (direct to me would be best), I'll stick it in the directory. My apologies for the delay, Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Fri Mar 15 03:27:19 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:11:55 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.7 Juergen Vollmer writes: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incomming/draftcopy-2.7 > the following files > THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.7 > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > Makefile > README.draftcopy > > which replace former revisions of this package. Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf > Here's a short description: > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file > `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > Changes since 2.6 > - - added textures graphics driver > - - The get the right graphics driver, reads the file `graphics.cfg' > automatically > > I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various > languages. Simply send me an email with translations. > > I'm looking for people using different graphic drivers to check the package. > > With best regards > > Juergen Vollmer > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2i > Comment: Requires PGP version 2.6 or later. > > iQCVAwUBMUhRtYh48drK23N9AQH0VAP/Q+5JQR8mAtUWaL0cUfX3Y5mIYQ9oZk0E > KZDJrKYvezCNK6FqePhDXF7tDsp/cLYreE06jFhFn+AEUWPWlD+Ou/gFXOc300LB > ilI58rAa5XiKSKwwLGwSGNiCSJzMXzFxY1aeqONMl8zkbGVYcSkZdeQ2cYsO7Ucc > FNljzhWg2cQ= > =m5Na > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Mar 16 13:54:54 1996 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:14:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: sad@utkux.utcc.utk.edu Subject: Re: Upload of nuweb087.zip (OS/2 port) Stefan A Deutscher writes: > I have uploaded nuweb087.zip including sources by Preson Briggs and > the os/2 binary to : > > hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu), > now: /incoming > suggested: /os2/unix/tex > > cdrom (ftp-os2.cdrom.com), > now: /os2/incoming > suggested: /os2/tex > > and CTAN (ftp.shsu.edu): > now: /incoming > suggested: tex-archive/web/nuweb/os2/ (needs to be created). > > Replaces: Nothing really, except hopefully DOS versions of nuweb, > running on some OS/2 machines. > > Brief description: > > I was looking in news groups for a tool for literate programming (web) > that'd allow me to use Fortran. (Extended) Pascal, and C and was portable > to or available for OS/2. I came accross an interesting FAQ for the > comp.literate.programming, and I got his personal reply: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Preston Briggs (preston@cs.rice.edu) wrote: > : >Also, my desire to have a version that (i) runs on OS/2 and (ii) > : >possibly incorporates Extended ANSI Pasal, while (iii) being based on > : >fweb to allow also g77 and gcc codes, made me think the -- for me very > : >unusual -- cross posting would enlarge my cross section and hence the > : >chance for an event ... > > : Lots of us have given up on the idea of pretty printing all our code, > : and use language-independent tools. For OS/2, you might check out > : nuweb and funnelweb. I wrote nuweb and unsurprisingly prefer it. I > : use it with C, C++, Fortran, Scheme, and Makefiles. Others have used > : it with Perl and such, but since it's language independent, you won't > : have any trouble with any flavor of Pascal, etc. > > : You can grab a copy via anonymous ftp from cs.rice.edu, in the > : directory public/preston. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To make it short: here is the working OS/2 version, with executable, > sources, and docs. > > All you need to use it is: > a) LaTeX installed on your system (2.09 or 2e are fine) > b) print the nuwebman.dvi or nuwebman.ps files, read them > c) an editor > d) the emx runtime system (emxrt.zip, from ftp-os2.cdrom.com, or > ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, for instance), version 0.9a fix pack 06 or > later installed. If you don't have it already installed > fetch the index of one of these sites, and search (grep) for > the pattern "emxrt.zip", or, if you can use regular expressions, > "^emxrt.zip". Then download and istall it. It contains the runtime > system in a dynamic link library which is shared by many other > programmes (say, gnu file utils, vi, emacs, less, probably even > emTeX programmes). This allows the executables to stay small and lean > but they won't run without it. > e) put nuweb.exe in your path. > > It seems that this is the right tool for cs people who don't crave nice, > mathematical pretty print stuff (like some physicists prefer), and for > projects that involve mixing of languages, or involve languages that > other webs don't know about. (I like fweb, too, but fweb can't do > Extended Pascal, as an example, and so nuweb seems to be it for that > case.) I have duly installed the files at ftp.tex.ac.uk, in web/nuweb/os2 as Stefan suggested. Stefan has also recently uploaded an fweb for os/2, but it's not reached Cambridge through my backdoor mirror, yet. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Mar 22 06:39:46 1996 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:34:36 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: typehtml package update The typehtml package that typesets HTML files has just been updated at the UK ctan, and so will reach other sites before long. As before, it is in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle Main changes, typehtml package now supports : * html3 math array element. * Anchor links converted to hypertext specials of the hypertex group (eg xhdvi) or Y&Y's dviwindo \specials, or (via hyperref package) pdfmark operators for adobe acrobat/distiller. * Netscape option added to support some of the tags such as center that have an effect in that application, even though they are not part of HTML. Grumble. David From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 05:11:27 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:51:11 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, dan@graphics.cornell.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Daniel Kartch writes: > > I have placed in dante/incoming the file siggraph.tar.gz. > This package provides a document class for typesetting > papers for the annual ACM Siggraph conference. > It should be installed as macros/latex/contrib/supported/siggraph/. Thanks for your submission. I installed it as proposed. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 10:20:19 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:04:21 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Lothar Meyer-Lerbs , George Craig Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes: > I just put a directory full of new OzTeX (for the Mac) for > german users into the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de. > The directory "oztex-german" is supposed to replace the > existing pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory in its > entirety. I've just installed the new files at ftp.dante.de, from where they will eventually propagte to the other CTAN hosts. Thanks, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Mon Mar 25 12:59:48 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:04:21 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Lothar Meyer-Lerbs , George Craig Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes: > I just put a directory full of new OzTeX (for the Mac) for > german users into the incoming directory at ftp.dante.de. > The directory "oztex-german" is supposed to replace the > existing pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory in its > entirety. I've just installed the new files at ftp.dante.de, from where they will eventually propagte to the other CTAN hosts. Thanks, -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 25 15:01:11 1996 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:23:47 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: New organisation of TUGboat macros, new (current) LaTeX macros I have reorganised the TUGboat macros on CTAN, so that they reside where they're needed, rather than all dotted about in directory digests/tugboat; thus there are new directories macros/latex209/contrib/tugboat macros/plain/contrib/tugboat In addition I have installed new TUGboat macros for use with current LaTeX in directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/tugboat A new subdirectory digests/tugboat/macros has links to these three new directories. The README file in the LaTeX directory says: LaTeX macros for use in TUGboat =============================== This is the first public distribution of a set of macros I have been working on for some time. The macros are still `work in progress', and I hope to deliver new versions fairly regularly. These macros *are* supported; please do *not* bother the TUGboat editor with queries about the macros (or the TUGboat proceedings editor, if you're preparing an article for submission to a TUG conference). Bother me, instead (the editors do, in any case, so you might as well short-circuit them ;-) These macros represent work in progress. Contributions are gratefully received; as I say, I should be the one to clear up misunderstandings and/or problems. The packages are still short of documentation; I am engaged in writing that... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN and TUGboat teams From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 26 11:09:48 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:53:35 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: weissert@sju.edu, rtollert@mail.coin.missouri.edu Subject: mla.{bst,sty} Tom Weissert has provided these files, which do citations according to the "MLA style sheet". I've installed them on CTAN in directory biblio/bibtex/contrib/mla which seems the most appropriate in the circumstances. There's no knowing if they'll ever get to SHSU, but they're at ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will be at ftp.dante.de soon. Also, ftp.cdrom.com mirrors ftp.tex.ac.uk directly, so they should arrive there fairly soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Mar 28 11:21:40 1996 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:07:06 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, JLBraams@cistron.nl Subject: Re: Update of ntgclass bundle Johannes L. Braams writes: > I have just transferred ntgclass.zip to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. > The contents of that zip file can replace the contents of the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntgclass. > > Please not that the ntgclass bundle also contains a4.dtx which was > distributed seperately some time ago. > > Could you please so to it that this update propagates to the proper > places? Thanks, Johannes, I installed it in the proper place. Rainer From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 28 12:54:57 1996 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 15:06:03 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: rcb5@win.tue.nl Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Richard Verhoeven writes: > I have sent this message 2 weeks ago and since the files are not installed > yet, I suppose the previous message got lost (I'm sorry for this extra message > if it didn't). Don't know what happened. I've been overloaded, and Sebastian's always overloaded, but I _thought_ I hadn't got much of a backlog of what's uploaded here... Sorry. > I have uploaded the following package: > > Uploaded on: > ftp.tex.ac.uk > Files: > /incoming/mathspad/README > /incoming/mathspad/mathpad-0.60.tar.gz > Description: > README: > A description of the program and how to install it > mathpad-0.60.tar.gz: > The source distribution of the program (for Unix/X11): > > MathSpad is a document preparation system particularly oriented to the > production of articles involving large amounts of (non-standard) > mathematical material. It is an interactive system designed to make > on-screen mathematical calculation a pleasure rather than a chore. > MathSpad generates LaTeX output. Existing LaTeX documents can be > incorporated directly into a MathSpad document, no special conversion > being required (or performed). > The distribution includes online help for the system itself and a > ``stencil'' file for LaTeX2e editing which is fully documented. > > Preferred location: > /tex-archive/support/mathspad > > the files in /incoming/mathspad replace those in > /tex-archive/support/mathspad I've now done that installation. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 07:02:08 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 10:57:23 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: typehtml package The typehtml (HTML formatter) package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle was updated yeterday so should have reached most mirrors by now. Mainly just small changes (like running the documentation through a spell checker:-) One or two small fixes and creaping features added. David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 13:53:08 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 16:22:40 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: guoniu@math.u-strasbg.fr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission `Han' (guoniu@math.u-strasbg.fr) writes: > (a) state which site you have uploaded to: > "ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/" > > (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded: > (1) Tex2Html.sit.hqx > (2) Tex8to7.sit.hqx > > (c) include a brief overview of what the file(s) is/are intended to do: > (1) TeX8->TeX7 SelfReplace: > This text conversion utility converts TeX 8 bits file to TeX 7 bits file. > To use it for conversion, just drag and drop your text files onto the > application icon. > > (2) TeX->Html SelfReplace > This text conversion utility converts TeX 7 bits file to Html format for > accented letters. To use it for conversion, just drag and drop your text > files onto the application icon. > > > (d) where you recommend placing your submission within the CTAN directory > hierarchy. > ctan/tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/utilities/ I've corresponded about with Han about this, explaining the reason for delay -- I was attempting to establish a mirror of Bluesky's own archive site, at their request. I have still not succeeded in that attempt, so I have installed Han's submissions anyway, but not where he suggested. The two files are in a new directory systems/mac/textures/contrib (It should not be too difficult to avoid clashes between that directory name and the stuff on Bluesky's site.) The files should propagate to other CTANs and mirrors (except possibly for SHSU and its mirrors) in the fullness of time. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 1 05:06:33 1996 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 10:59:32 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: ragged.sty for CTAN Laurent Siebenmann writes: > *** ragged.sty for CTAN > > > --- brief overview : ragged.sty is a new package that provides any TeX > format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and "raggedcenter" formatting of > paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF > RAGGEDNESS. I have installed this file at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/generic, as Larry requests. It should propagate to the other CTANs in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Tue Apr 2 02:07:46 1996 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 08:53:38 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, JLBraams@cistron.nl Subject: Re: Update to NTG classes Johannes L. Braams writes: > After I sent the update to Ctan i found yet another mistake in the ntg > classes. So I uploaded a second file, this time called ntgupdat.zip. > It replaces ntgupdate.zip. Thanks, I've just installed the new files on ftp.dante.de. Propagation should proceed during the day. Rainer From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 2 05:44:00 1996 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:42:59 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: tex@fys.ku.dk Subject: Re: unsubscribe To find about unsubscribing from CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu, you should mail to listserv@shsu.edu with a message body containing (only) help; this will return you the information that you received when you subscribed to CTAN-ann and have obviously forgotten to retain. PLEASE, people, DO NOT send messages to the list about subscription. It doesn't gain you anything, and it annoys those of us who will remain on the list. We hope to do away with this mailing list at SHSU soon, since there's no-one there to manage it, or to pick up messages about unsubscribing, etc. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From sawade@physik.tu-berlin.de Wed Apr 3 04:11:06 1996 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 10:42:25 +0000 From: Guido Sawade Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ragged.sty for CTAN > Coudl you please remove me from the mailing list ?! > I have changed jobs and now can not sign off from > the old address . > > Old address : smiley@ecrc.de Unsubscribe yourself with a 'trick': You have to set the reply-to field to your address you'd like to unsubscribe. --- Guido Sawade From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Apr 4 09:13:33 1996 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 16:07:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Volker Kuhlmann Subject: Re: Package ieeepes update Volker Kuhlmann writes: > This is an update to my ieeepes package. There is one more option to the > package, noieeebox, which suppresses the empty space at the bottom of the > left column on the title page. Minor improvements to the documentation. > > Please unpack over the existing version in macros/latex/contrib/supported. Thansk a lot, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Thu Apr 4 10:37:49 1996 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 16:20:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, Koaunghi Un Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Koaunghi Un writes: > I've just uploaded my HLaTeX package to ftp.dante.de. > In the directory of /incoming/HLaTeX, there are 4 files: > > HLaTeX-0.95.tar.gz > HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz > PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz > > With this package, Korean documents written in Korean standard KSC > codes can be processed by latex2e. My previous packages are in > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX and > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX. > > I want HLaTeX-0.95.tar.gz to be unpacked in the directory of > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX, after the contents of target > directory are cleaned. All other 3 files HLaTeX-tfms.tar.gz, > PS-HLaTeX-vf.tar.gz and PS-HLaTeX-tfm.tar.gz can be moved to > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX. Thank you very much, the update has been installed as you specified. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 4 11:53:01 1996 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 17:48:16 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: rajeev@netcom.com Subject: Re: PageDraw 2.0 uploaded rajeev@netcom.com writes: > I have uploaded PageDraw 2.0 to ftp.shsu.edu in the > directory incoming/pagedraw > > PageDraw is a free vector-graphics program capable of > creating EPS files suitable for inclusion in TeX documents. > > The new version replaces Version 1.7, which is currently > in the graphics/pagedraw subdirectory of the CTAN archives. > > -- Rajeev I have (finally) installed pagedraw as requested in graphics/pagedraw Sorry about the delay... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Apr 5 10:08:13 1996 Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 15:40:05 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Matthew Swift Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (UK) `monster' Matt Swift writes: > I recently uploaded monster.tgz to the UK site. > > The files unpack into "./monster/*". > > Please do this in "macros/latex/contrib/supported". > > Please delete the entire contents of the directory > "macros/latex/contrib/supported/frankenstein". I want to use the > directory "monster" now because it is TDS-compliant whereas > "frankenstein" was not. > > In the archive I uploaded were three symlinks to other files in the > "contrib/other/misc" directory. I want a CTAN user to get these files > when they request the entire monster directory. Since I am not sure > whether the links will work without your intervention, could you check > them for me? The links are: > > relsize.sty --> ../../other/misc/relsize.sty > moreverb.sty --> ../../other/misc/moreverb.sty > url.sty --> ../../other/misc/url.sty I have installed the stuff as requested, and deleted poor ol' Frankenstein (a victim of standardisation, itself a victim of Bill Gates, I suppose ;-). The links, needless to say, _did_ need attention. > The text below is the README; please go ahead with the customary > forward to ctan-ann. > > Thanks! > Matt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > FRANKENSTEIN > > A Collection of Packages for LaTeX > > available at > > $CTAN/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > abbrevs > abbreviation macros > (Frankenstein's briefs) > > "Abbreviation macros" expand to text and insert the proper following > space depending on context. These macros can be abbreviations in a > second sense also, expanding to one thing the first time they are used > and another thing on subsequent invocations. This facilitates the > automatic spelling-out of abbreviations or acronyms at their first > use. The initial and subsequent expansions of an abbreviation macro > are available at any time via explicit commands. Abbreviation macros > are grouped into categories; there are hooks applicable to each > category. Categories can be reset so that subsequent abbreviation > macros in that category behave as if used for the first time again. > > A generic facility is also provided for suffixes like 1900\BC and > 6:00\PM, which correctly handles following periods. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > compsci > macros for writing about macros > (Frankenstein's conscience) > > Most often this package will be used to supplement the "ltxdoc" > class, but it can be used with other classes. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > titles > title macros > (Frankenstein's references) > > Various macros for handling the titles of books, journals, etc. that > handle following spacing and punctuation intelligently. Especially useful > for bibliographic databases. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > lips > text ellipses > (Frankenstein's lips) > > \lips is better for text ellipses than \dots, by the standard > of the _Chicago Manual of Style_. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > moredefs > more defining commands > (Frankenstein's brain) > > A delightful collection of defining, expansion, and debugging commands > that make elegant programming in LaTeX fun and easy. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > slemph > slanted emphasis > (Frankenstein's gait) > > This package provides the commands \itswitch, \slswitch, > \textitswitch, and \textslswitch. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > DISTRIBUTION > > All files are released under the conditions of the GNU General Public > License. I am willing to specially license this code; please simply > contact me with your proposal. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Matt Swift > From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr 9 04:46:04 1996 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:39:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, bullestock@dk-online.dk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Torsten Martinsen writes: > I have just uploaded an update of the LaTeX2e Texinfo files to ftp.dante.de. > > The files are > > README > latex2e.texi > ltx-help.el > > and are intended to replace the old files in > tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/ (ltx-help.el is a new file). Thanks a lot, I installed the update. Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Apr 9 04:48:32 1996 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:42:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: CTAN@shsu.edu, "Williams, Peter" Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Williams, Peter writes: > > I have just uploaded a set of files to /incoming on ftp.dante.edu > I have created a subdirectory /incoming/algorithms and placed the files > > algorithmic.sty > algorithm.sty > algorithms.tex > algorithms.ps > > in that directory. > The first two files are updated versions of the files of the same name that > appear > in the directory macros/latex/contrib/other/williams on CTAN sites. > The second two are the source and a postscript version of documentation for > the > use of the other two. > > I suggest that the files that I have just uploaded be moved to a directory > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms on CTAN sites > > The new versions just uploaded include hooks for customizing them for > use with languages other than english and I suggest that a subdirectory be > created > under macros/latex/contrib/supported/algorithms where files customizing this > package can be placed if (when) people contribute them. > > The package algorithmic has a minor incompatibility with the previous > version > which was introduced during the addition of a feature for (optionally) > numbering > the lines of an algorithm. The incompatibility is explained in the > documentation. > > I would appreciate it if you could announce the availibility of these files > once they > have been moved to a place accessible to users. > > I suggest that the older versions of the first two files be deleted from > CTAN once > the new ones are available > > Yours sincerely > Peter Williams > > Reply-To: Peter.Williams@dsto.defence.gov.au Thanks a lot, I installed the files as proposed, For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Apr 10 06:32:19 1996 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:28:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: CTAN@SHSU.edu, migor@student.math.hr Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Igor Marinovic writes: > site: ftp.dante.de > > filename: hrhyph.tex > > Short description: > > % Hyphenation patterns for Croatian language words for use with > % T1 encoding, which is supported in DC fonts. > % These can also be used with OT1 encoding. > % > % The first version was realized in late 1994. > % Second, much more improved version was realized in the beginning of 1996. > % Date of the last change: 19.03.1996. > > Recommended directory: language/hyphenation > > % Marinovi\'c Igor > % migor@student.math.hr Thanks a lot for your submission. I installed it at ftp.dante.de from where it will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 12 08:51:07 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:37:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Piefel writes: > (a) I've uploaded to ftp.dante.de > (b) everything is in incoming/LGrind > (c) It is the current update for the LGrind-program > (d) where it was before: support/lgrind (since I do support it) Thanks a lot, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 15 21:46:43 1996 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:11:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, "LINPWD::DALY" Subject: Re: Update of natbib package LINPWD::DALY writes: > I have just placed the following files in incoming/natbib on the DANTE > CTAN server. > > readme.v62 > natbib.dtx > > Could you please place these files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > > removing the file README.v61, > renaming the readme.v62 to README.v62 > replacing natbib.dtx with its update I did the update, thanks a lot. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Apr 18 10:56:25 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:49:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, boercher@theo.physik.uni-bremen.de Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Volker Boerchers writes: > We have written a package for typesetting Young-Tableaux, mathematical > symbols for the representations of groups. There exists already one > package for Young-Tableaux on CTAN: `young.sty' > (exactly: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/young.sty) > > Our package `youngtab.dtx' provides two TeX macros, `\yng(#1)' and > `\young(#1)' to generate whole Young-Tableaux instead of using a LaTeX > environment as with `young.sty'. Our macros should be easier to use. > > The package was originally written for LaTeX2e but works also with > plain TeX (tested) and hopefully with LaTeX 2.09 (not tested). > For plain TeX one has to `\input' the file `youngtab.tex' instead of > using the `.sty'. > > Now the information on the uploaded file (following `README.uploads'): > (a) uploaded at ftp-site: ftp.dante.de > (b) file: youngtab.tar.gz > (c) for a brief overview of the files submitted see the copy of README > below. > (d) We recommend the following path(es): > directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab > a link: /pub/tex/macros/plain/contrib/youngtab -> > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/youngtab > > Best wishes, > Volker B"orchers & Stefan Gieseke > Institut f"ur Theoretische Physik, > University of Bremen, Germany > > e-mail: boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de > gieseke@physik.uni-bremen.de Thanks a lot, the package has been installed in the indicated locations. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf > > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > The following is a copy of the README file which is included in > `youngtab.tar.gz': > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > YOUNGTAB-Package > ================ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Authors: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Volker B"orchers (email: boercher@physik.uni-bremen.de) > and Stefan Gieseke (email: gieseke@physik.uni-bremen.de) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > FILES: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > README > ---------------- the file you're reading now > > youngtab.dtx > ---------------- a documentated version of the package. From it you can > generate both a documentation and the .sty file without most comments > using the docstrip utility. > > youngtab.ins > ---------------- run TeX on it to generate the youngtab.sty in your > actual directory (from the .dtx file) > > makeydoc > ---------------- this (unix-) script generates youngtab.dvi, the > documentation for the package. > > makeydoc.bat > ---------------- same as makeydoc but for MSDOS. (We are not sure that > it works.) > > gind.ist > ---------------- You need it to generate the index for the > documentation. (gind.ist is a official part of doc/docstrip package) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > INSTALL: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1) `tex youngtab.ins' (alternatively: `latex youngtab.ins') > 2) `makeydoc' > * if you don't want any macrocode listings, uncomment the line > containing ``\OnlyDescription'' (remove the `#') > 3) put `youngtab.sty' to a path where LaTeX can find it. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > For TeX-users: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > follow the instructions in the documentation. (You must have > LaTeX2e to produce a .dvi file from youngtab.dtx -- Try to read the > .dtx file instead if you don't have!) > However there is a file already prepared for use with TeX: > `youngtab.tex' - try this. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 25/3/96 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Version: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.0 > > From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 17 09:21:01 1996 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:20:54 +0100 From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: longtable package test release On the UK ctan site (and other ctan sites in due course) there is a **test** version of the LaTeX longtable package for multi page tables. tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.txt tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.ins tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/longtable.dtx This is a pre-release of version 4.02. The current supported version is still version 3.17 which is part of the Standard LaTeX tools distribution tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools/longtable.dtx The most notable feature of the new version is that it uses a new algorithm, due to David Kastrup, that aligns the parts of the table without having to use \setlongtables command to distinguish between `draft' and `final' runs. It also obtains better table widths in certain cases of overlapping \multicolumn entries. It can require more `passes' ie LaTeX runs before all the table is aligned correctly, although our tests show that on `normal' files this does not usually happen. Any problems with the test release should be sent to me at carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk not to the LaTeX bugs address. Of particular interest are any documents that process correctly with longtable version 3 but have problems with this version 4. If all goes well this version will be moved from the /contrib/supported/carlisle/ directory into the Standard LaTeX tools distribution in the June LaTeX release. David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 18 14:16:47 1996 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 18:13:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Jean Pierre LeJacq , Angus Duggan Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote (ages ago, and I misfiled his message): > I have uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu in the /incoming directory one > file: > > psutils.tar.gz > > This is the latest version, release 1 patchlevel 16, of Angus > Duggan's PostScript utilities. Here is a short description from > the README file: > > This archive contains some utilities for manipulating > PostScript documents. Page selection and rearrangement are > supported, including arrangement into signatures for booklet > printing, and page merging for n-up printing. > > psbook rearranges pages into signatures > psselect selects pages and page ranges > pstops performs general page rearrangement and selection > psnup put multiple pages per physical sheet of paper > psresize alter document paper size > epsffit fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box > > This file should replace the current file in the /support > subdirectory. I have (now, finally) done this. I'm sorry about the delay -- the fact that the uploads happen where I can't easily get at them (they get mirrored back here, at SHSU's leisure) is a mild excuse-generator, but not really powerful enough a one for this situation... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team > ____ __ __ ____/\_\ ____ Quoin Inc > / __ \/\ \/\ \ / __ \/\ \ / _ \ 124 Mount Auburn Street > /\ \_\ \ \ \_\ \/\ \_\ \ \ \/\ \/\ \ Cambridge, MA 02138-5700 > \ \___ \ \____/\ \____/\ \_\ \_\ \_\ USA > \/___/\ \/___/ \/___/ \/_/\/_/\/_/ > \ \_\ voice: +1.617.576.5885 > \/_/ OBJECT CONSULTANTS fax: +1.617.576.5876 > Whew. From aasmundo@math.uio.no Thu Apr 18 18:48:36 1996 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:43:25 +0200 From: aasmundo@math.uio.no Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: longtable package test release From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Apr 22 17:44:18 1996 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:32:25 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: New version of UK TUG FAQ installed on CTAN I've just installed, on ftp.tex.ac.uk, the latest state of the UK TUG FAQ. This FAQ is *not* the official one for comp.text.tex, but as far as I can tell it's the only one in English that's regularly updated. (I believe there's a German one, maintained by Dante, but it doesn't make it to the archives, that I'm aware of.) Our FAQ is produced as a service to the members of UK TUG, and is made available to the world as a whole in a spirit of openness. The sources, macros, and supporting stuff are all to be found on CTAN in usergrps/uktug/faq Included in that directory are files newfaq.ps Generated for a Laserjet 4, Times for body text newfaq.300ps Generated for a CanonCX engine newfaq.dvi Using cm fonts throughout letterfaq.ps As for N American paper letterfaq.300ps ditto letterfaq.dvi ditto The brave are welcome to try and compile it for themselves. Read 00readme, which tries hard to dissuade such rash action ... this stuff is not intended for readers of the source ;-) No support is likely to be forthcoming for people who get in a mess. An `animated' version of the FAQ may be seen at http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes (which is admittedly not the world's fastest Web site...) Robin Fairbairns Chair, UK TUG From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Apr 24 06:25:45 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:08:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu, ctan@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: DPInnn for emTeX Santiago Vila Doncel writes: > I have uploaded the following file: > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/dpinnn/dpinnn.zip > > It should be moved to > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/dpinnn > > and mirrors, overwriting the old dpinnn.zip. > README file has no changes. > > DPInnn.zip is a tiny package containing everything needed to make emTeX to > look for PK files in DPInnn directories (as TDS standard says), instead of > nnnDPI directories (as emTeX normally do). > > Now there is an updated set of patches (matching dvidrv 1.6 f) for > the documentation files. > > [ I would like to see this package to be "embedded" into emTeX itself, but > this is another story ]. > > Thanks, > > @bye (regards) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3i > Charset: latin1 > Comment: Firmado con PGP y PineSign 2.2 es > > iQCVAgUBMX0kTSqK7IlOjMLFAQHHnAQAhaiXzfxae4gSIxZz2fYSh8CdwIQuesV6 > fOKm6UUhOqIorwzKe+kc916NyLmpj5vdGKfk/YoUJjBJKH40DmkPRVWZHz9FYhq3 > 6zHXwj/0Y/wQy+d7BQL9xrgaO8UHDD6WuBxEfuHQ4196RnFE1GTrMoGIXpX9ItQ1 > Z9LYjNr6Kqo= > =yAUX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Santiago Vila Thanks a lot, I installed your update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Wed Apr 24 08:01:33 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:46:15 +0100 From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG Subject: plain.sty update I have just uploaded a new plain.sty to the UK ctan. It will reach other ctan archives in due course. plain.sty allows plain TeX commands in LaTeX, between \begin{plain} \end{plain} The new version ensures that commands such as \over and \matrix that are disabled or changed by the AMS LaTeX packages *may* be used with their original plain TeX (or TeX primitive) definition within the plain environment. The package is in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle two old versions of the package that were in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/plain.sty macros/latex209/contrib/misc/plain.sty have been deleted. David From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Apr 25 21:12:03 1996 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:51:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Torsten Martinsen Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Torsten Martinsen writes: > I have uploaded version 1.6 of the LaTeX2e Texinfo files to ftp.dante.de. > > The files are > > latex2e.texi > ltx-help.el > README > > TThey are now in incoming/latex2e-help-texinfo, and should be moved to > tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/. > > (I hope this will be the last update for a while :-) Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Apr 26 09:49:08 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:57:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Andreas Tille Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Andreas Tille writes: > NEW VERSION OF Wp2LaTeX > > I have upload in > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/wp2latex-5_1 > > the package Wp2LaTeX. > > This version includes some additions and bugfixes to the earlier > version of M. Covington in > > /pup/tex/support/wp2latex-5_1. > > I've told him, that I suppose to override his version and he accepted it. > Please put the package at this destination. In > > /pub/tex/support/wp2latex > > is another version of wp2latex. Please don't mix them. The executable in > this directory is based on sources, which are completely new written from > scratch, but they aren't available by ftp. I tried hardly to contact the > author but failed. He wanted to support the program but I'm not sure if > he do. The sources in the subdirectories of /pub/tex/support/wp2latex > are very old. My version is based on them including of improvements of > other authors (see readme). > > I've included some remarks about this bad (in my opinion) situation, because > I don't want to mix-up somebody with several versions. > > Andreas Tille Thanks a lot, I installed the update. The readme is appended. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy --------------------- /****************************************************************************** * program: wp2latex * * function: convert WordPerfect 5.0 or 5.1 files into LaTeX * * modul: readme * ******************************************************************************/ Attention: ---------- There is another version of Wp2LaTeX written from scratch by the original author R. C. Houtepen at TUE-Eindhoven. This version differs completely from the pakage in your hand. Please check it on your nearest CTAN host at tex-archive/support/wp2latex/* . The version there has the disadvantage, that there isn't any source code available. The source code in the subdirectories is very old. I tried hardly to contact the author but failed. So I took the latest available sources (which based on these in the subdirectories mentioned above) and corrected some errors. I never checked the other version. I apologize everybody to compare both versions and tell me the conclusion. The program: ------------ Wp2LaTeX was originally designed to translate WordPerfect 5.0 documents into LaTeX 2.09. Later some code was added to translate also WordPerfect 5.1 documents. Now the preambel is designed for LaTeX 2e (by changing the preambel by hand it runs also under LaTeX 2.09 of course). This version was compiled with EMX 0.9b (gcc 2.7.1) to run under both DOS and OS/2 on 386 or higher. Some general remarks: --------------------- 1. Don't expect a better looking result only caused by converting text from WordPerfect to LaTeX. You HAVE TO edit the resulting LaTeX files. The reason is, that wordprocessors didn't give the structur of the text (sections, itemizations, labels, ...) but only the formatting (boldface, underline (uurgh), italic, ...). 2. Tables are not converted. Only the text in tables is inserted line by line. Hint for tables: Call WordPerfect. Mark table as block. Save the block as DOS file. Now manual editing is easier. 3. In this version formulas are translated. The code for translating formulas was done by Dirk Lellinger (see below): I detected that there are problems when translating anything containig "over". So: CHECK ALL FORMULAS CAREFULLY! 4. Don't expect any miracles from this program. In which case is Wp2LaTeX really useful? ---------------------------------------- I have translated a huge WP file (about 1MB text) with a lot of footnotes but no tables and formulas. To get a nice LaTeX format I wrote about 5 C-programs and about 40 sed-lines to convert some ugly formattings. After this I spend some time with manual editing. At last I wrote a LaTeX-style for a nice looking document. The whole procedure took me three days. How to handle bugs? ------------------- 1. Correct the bug, send it to CTAN and send the latest author a remark about your bugfix. If the bug is only a "unknown character" (special WordPerfect character) look at the ent of the file wp2linit.c. It is very simple to add further special charcters. 2. If you are not able to correct the bug ask the latest author, whether he can do anything for you. 3. Remember that the reason of all the bugs is, that anybody wrote a text in WordPerfect. So the mistake was to use WordPerfect not to use Wp2LaTeX. Bugfix: Delete all WordPerfect stuff and enforce all people to use LaTeX. Compiling the source -------------------- There is a makefile for use with dmake 3.8 and EMX 0.9b (gcc 2.7.1) to run under both DOS and OS/2 on 386 or higher. There are no special dmake statements and I think, every make could handle it. The C source contains some #pragma-statements for Borland-C compiler. I think it should also be possible to compile the source with Borland-C (I beleave, the #pragma statements in wp2latex.c are necessary in all files if needed at all. The changes according to the string sizes could make them unneccessary.) Perhaps there are memory problems caused by allocating space for reading one whole paragraph of the strip file. If this is the case decrease MaxParLength in wp2latex.h. In former releases it was 256 but it is NOT enought. A more save choice may be 4096. Also the code was compiled in former versions using gcc v. 2.6.3 in a SunOS environment. I tried to ensure, that it wouldn't fail in this case. Try the makefile or type gcc -o wp2latex *.c When compiling in Linux environment you have to link the math libraries as well (uncomment the appropriate line in the makefile) or try gcc -o wp2latex -lm *.c I splitted the source, which originally was only one file, to make it easier to correct bugs. I hope that it was a good decison. Authorship history: ------------------- wp2latex was written in Turbo Pascal by R. C. Houtepen at TUE-Eindhoven. It was converted into C using p2c, and modified, by Glenn Geers (Sydney U). It was further modified by Michael Covington (U of Georgia). Modified to be used in unix/linux environment by Claudio Porfiri. The parsing of formulas was added by Dirk Lellinger (U Halle/Germany). The splitting of code into several files and the documentation was done by Andreas Tille. Remarks of the authors: ----------------------- Michael Covington: MC KNOWN BUGS: Needs to put \hfill before \\ when in justified mode, so user doesn't get "underfull hbox" messages. Modifications by Michael A. Covington 1992, 1993, mostly marked "MC". This is Borland C, but should be fairly portable. Claudio Porfiri: Notes on the Unix version: the code was compiled using gcc v. 2.6.3 in a SunOS environment without any problem, simply type "gcc wp2latex.c -o wp2latex", when compiling in Linux environment you have to link the math libraries as well, so give the command "gcc wp2latex.c -lm -o wp2latex" instead. 1995-12-13 patch 2.3.1 Claudio Porfiri Since the SEEK_SET etc. constants are not defined into stdio.h but in unistd.h, and since I want the code to be portable, I added the defines into the source code. Dirk Lellinger: Equation-parsing for WordPerfect 5.1 (C) by Dirk Lellinger (Germany), May 1994, currently available under: dirk@sunny.dki.th-darmstadt.de known bugs and incompabilities ****************************** HORZ n, VERT n, SCALESYM n c are not implemented. WordPerfect allows "lazy" bracketing, for instance 1 over 2 over 3 is interpreted in WordPerfect as {1 over 2} over 3 this is not allowed in WP2LATEX and results in a bad translation the title of WP-equations is not translated currently only the charset 6 is supported for special characters all other chars are implemented by their full names, for instance alpha, bigsqcap ... differences to WordPerfect and implementation details ***************************************************** the author commonly writes equation arrays in WordPerfect using stackalign{...&...#...&...} therefore I interpreted this structure, which must be at the very beginning of the formula, as equation array. I decided not to use the eqnarray-environment in LATEX, because I entered problems with the numbering of formulas I rather use \displaystyle in connection with the array environment to get the right style of the formulas I have to make a decision wheter a formula is displayed using begin{equation} or using $ (text style). This is realized as follows if there are chars before the formula in the current line or the previous line is ended by a soft return and the WP-option "formula is treated as char" (this translation may be wrong) is on, then the text style mode is used, in the other cases the equation-environment is used. Note: Lazy bracketing causes error messages. Check the formula with the number given in the message carefully! Andreas Tille : 1) some rudiments of p2c substituted (Static -> static, Local -> static, Void -> void, Char -> char) 2) simplification of the mechanism to add further special WP-charcters (#define WP_CHAR ...) 3) some special WP-charcters added (Marked with AT) 4) included unistd.h if not __BORLANDC__ 5) LaTeX2e - preambel: \documentclass{...} \usepackage{...} 6) auxillary files (*.str and *.tbl) are really deleted (fclose() is necessary before unlink()) 7) If a '-' in the WP-text occured at the end of a line (the character in this case is represented as 0xaa instead of 0xa9) Wp2LaTeX leaved it out. Now 0xa9 and 0xaa both are handled correct. 8) Some code-optimizations a) file opening b) Rd_word, Wr_word substituted for EMX (runs on all machines with Intel-byte order c) substitute some Pascal-fashioned string[256] stuff by allocating the really needed memory (sometimes more than 256!!!) d) substitute some constant strings, which only store other constant strings, to pointers, which point to constant strings (open_com, close_com, LOC_Convert_first_pass.lat, LOC_Convert_first_pass.ext_lat) e) substitute Jump_in_file by fseek(..., SEEK_CUR) f) reading of the split-file in second pass changed 9) Split the code into several files to have a better overview when looking for bugs. 10) Substitute some (only some, because I'm lazy ;-() functions from a(i, s) int i; char *s; { } to a(int i, char *s) { } style. Give the compiler a chance to detect wrong arguments! 11) Prevent the formula parser from crashing with SIGSEGV (Note: These chrashes were caused by an internal error in formpars.c. I didn't correct the error but only check whether it occured and don't do anything which could cause a SIGSEGV. The resulting LaTeX file is the same in any case. Dirk Lellinger told me, that lazy bracketing causes the error.) 12) Wrote this documentation. 13) Warning if the file to convert seems to be a WordPerfect 6.0 document If somebody needs any sed scripts or little C-programs to do some further modifications automatically ask me. If there are a lot of users who need conversions like \"{a} -> ~D, "..." -> "`..."' and other stuff I will include some little utilities into the Wp2LaTeX package. TODO LIST: ---------- - Improve the translation quality - Add various makefiles to allow an easier compilation under various environment, like VMS, Win and so on. - Write a log-file of the ignored sequences - Add command-line options . use german.sty (\"{a} -> "a, ...) . use EmTeX (\"{a} -> ~D, ...) . include further packages (\usepackage{t1enc,...}) . leave out optional arguments of \footnote - Optional LaTeX filename given in commandline (I hate so much questions while running a program). - Complete part 10) from Andreas Tilles changes - Handling of tables could be done so far, that columns are separated by '&' and lines separated by "\\\n". This would simplify manual editing - Correct errors within formula parser . "over" are not translated correctly . See the error messages while running - Handling of WordPerfect 6.0 documents. - Prevent anybody from using WordPerfect to decrease the probability of failures of this program ;-). From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sun Apr 28 15:13:44 1996 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 19:10:21 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Richard W.D.Nickalls <100115.1010@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- year planner I have now (finally) installed Dick Nickalls' small bit of year planner macro code. The stuff is installed as macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan96 (3 files) The .doc file says: These files will print a vertical-type daily planner (ie months along the top, days downwards), with each 6-month period fitting onto a single A4 sheet. They will also fit onto USA standard size paper. Thanks, Dick, and sorry for the delay... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Apr 29 10:28:03 1996 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:08:37 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Frank Jensen Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (Hyphenation patterns for Danish) Frank Jensen writes: > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' a set of hyphenation patterns for > Danish to be used with LaTeX (2e) and Babel. It has direct support > for T1 and OT1 encodings. > > The name of the file is `dkhyphen.tar.gz', and it should be unpacked > in the `languages/hyphenation' directory. Thanks a lot, I installed your files. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 30 07:45:21 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:09:14 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk Subject: Re: CTAN submission: new 8-bit implementation of BibTeX 0.99 Niel Kempson writes: > I've uploaded a complete kit for a new fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX > 0.99 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk. There are five files: > > bt370.doc - `README' file describing the implementation > *** PLEASE rename this to 00readme.txt *** > > bt370csf.zip - example code page and sorting order definition files > bt370dos.zip - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users > bt370os2.zip - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users > bt370src.zip - complete source code kit for all supported platforms > > I propose creating a new directory > > tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit > > for these files because this new implementation is not tied to a > particular platform. > > I also suggest deleting "tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/ms-dos/kempson/8bit-beta" > because that version is now thoroughly out of date. I have installed the stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as requested, and deleted the beta-release version. It will propagate to ftp.dante.de and to mirrors of ftp.tex.ac.uk overnight. When/if it will make it to ftp.shsu.edu and sites that mirror it is anyone's guess. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team > The key features of this implementation are summarised below. > > Large (32-bit) capacity, selectable at run time > ----------------------------------------------- > > - rewritten to use 32-bit data types wherever possible > > - capacity of key internal arrays can be set on the command line > (specifically hash_prime, hash_size, max_cites, max_ent_ints, > max_ent_strs, max_fields, max_strings, pool_size, wiz_fn_space) > > - predefined capacities of "default", "big" and "huge" for convenience > > > Full 8-bit support for non-English languages > -------------------------------------------- > > - accepts 8-bit characters in its input files and writes 8-bit > characters to its output files. > > - works with LaTeX2e and its "inputenc" package to provide a robust > means of handling 8-bit character sets > > - an external file used to define the code page *and* sorting order > to be used by BibTeX ("CS" file) > > - a number of example CS files are provided with the initial kit: > > character set sorting order > ----------------------------------------- > US ASCII English > IBM codepage 437 Latin > IBM codepage 850 Latin > IBM codepage 850 Scandinavean > ISO 8859-1 Latin > ISO 8859-1 Scandinavean > > plus instructions for creating and testing new CS files. > > > Other Features > -------------- > > - backwards compatible with the official BibTeX 0.99 (--traditional option) > > - translation of the original Web source to portable C > > - source should compile on just about any system supporting a 32-bit > ANSI C compiler > > - executable versions provided for OS/2 and MS-DOS, courtesy of > Eberhard Mattes' wonderful emx development environment > > - plenty of command line options for flexibility > > - free with source under GNU / original BibTeX conditions > > > Authors > ------- > > Niel Kempson > Snowy Owl Systems Limited, Cheltenham, England > E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk > > and > > Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra > Centro de Ciencias de la Atm\'osfera, > Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico > E-mail: asierra@servidor.unam.mx > > The original BibTeX was written by Oren Patashnik using Donald > Knuth's WEB system. This format produces a PASCAL program for > execution and a TeX documented version of the source code. > > Niel Kempson did the original manual translation from WEB to C, > conversion to "big" (32-bit) capacity, addition of run-time selectable > capacity and part of the 8-bit support extensions. He intermittently > maintains the master version of the C source code. > > Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra should take the credit for most of the 8-bit > function provided by this version of BibTeX. > > Note > ---- > > Oren Patashnik, the creator of BibTeX, is working on a new BibTeX 1.0 > that will be a modern implementation supporting large capacities and > non-English languages (see TUGboat, pages 269--274, volume 15, number > 3, September 1994). He is content for this version to be released, > but hopes that people will eventually migrate to BibTeX 1.0 when it > is released. Its release date is uncertain at the moment. From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 1 04:36:59 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:01:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: german@dante.de Subject: german.sty 2.5c installed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bernd Raichle wrote: > I have put the following file(s) in CTAN's incoming directory > > a) site: ftp.dante.de > > b) files: incoming/german-25c.tar > > c) description: > tar file includes the newest version 2.5c of > "german.sty" and its documentation > > d) place: > language/german/ I have installed the files at ftp.dante.de as requested and deleted the old diff files. The new version will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and to mirrors of ftp.dante.de overnight and with a lot of luck to ftp.shsu.edu too. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 == Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMYYPF0bfUueFIgaNAQH0fAQAnjpPEYM0UwP4BoEZM7wMJWkk1JkT+9/W LPJef7zIMNrJhw9TdIaj8No8yk59+1IEjEQwnLEeRIEdw+NgK/sVY86retxzuJUM Zs3u/wfiVSsRpPVlE/4Oleoi7/oRa99cL8drtYByM6Vzc3+ouIPMgpXEFlGBuiWo TgSmb/q+tZQ= =5zSc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 1 04:18:05 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:05:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Gerhard Frech: I have uploaded texed122.zip -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > I've uploaded TeXEd122.zip into the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de > > Please install (move) TeXEd122.zip into the systems/os2/texed > directory. > > This programm is written by myself and I have uploaded the almost > newest version to ftp.dante.de since half a year. The file has been installed as requested (systems/os2/texed/texed122.zip) and will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the mirrors of ftp.dante.de in due time. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 == Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMYYQCUbfUueFIgaNAQFfuwP9GDaZ+sn8q7LY8+pwLa3OA3JRsSuJYG4N KfcimY6GkjWN89uUnEDIj/2y++A5Q40s2Be2c9xnG92T1g+6w61DfD2rYWmSrRyz ew5JoapsXdx318+GHO78HU+iPw277S/SsxDC/7+rUBgg2Bkt1OXyp7Jd9yrsktw4 RdK6Hn/dAc0= =ylSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 1 05:48:58 1996 Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:47:23 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: Niel Kempson Subject: Re: CTAN submission: new 8-bit implementation of BibTeX 0.99 Niel Kempson writes: > [...] I've already had a couple > of messages pointing out that I forgot to include a vital source file :-( > > I've just uploaded a new bt370src.zip file to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming so > I'd be grateful if you'd replace the existing one-day old version in > tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit. That's now done. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 3 12:27:13 1996 Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 16:22:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: DVI previewer tmview 96.05 installed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have installed the new version 96.05 of the DVI previewer tmview (replacing 96.01) on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/dviware/tmview. It will propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and to mirrors of ftp.dante.de overnight and maybe to ftp.shsu.edu too. A short description from the package (file IAFA-PACKAGE): Title: tmview Version: 96.05 Description: SVGA-lib based DVI-previewer. Fast, offers xdvi-like anti-aliasing, text-string searching, arbitrary-zooming, bookmarks, some of the hypertex features. Author: Thomas Moor, qelis@aol.com Maintained-by: Thomas Moor, qelis@aol.com Maintained-at: sunsite.unc.edu, ftp.dante.de Platforms: linux, gcc, SVGA-lib 1.28 or up, programming language C Copying-Policy: "Freely Redistributable" Keywords: dvi previewer tex svgalib For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 == Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMYoWiEbfUueFIgaNAQHK6gP/Q/NcUQbgy/ItbRMPz/p9fVY7lLdRntHd R0twQLsM6BYg4pxUl4VsEKQCvpxgvfJpWhCqRw0g5R/uQolbZDh2UsVEp8jetzPv XiP4TcLQuNG3jEo2QBt0lmj5sUXUT0Xi5LcXcHJemXsRe9fuFx3C0ZzG9ZuvzlyO bIGJ1DgOomU= =l2to -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From piet@cs.ruu.nl Fri May 3 12:25:45 1996 Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 17:16:40 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN@SHSU.edu, ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: CTAN upload I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming a new version of fancyheadings.sty. To be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings/ This is the last release of version 1. I have version 2 almost ready, but I will give it another name. It will still be backwards compatible, but it also has a new user interface, that is much easier to use. The new name will be fancyhdr.sty (8+3), but I want the file under the old name to be as much up to date as possible. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 3 19:36:54 1996 Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 23:34:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Volker Kuhlmann Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission: makefonts 1.2 Volker Kuhlmann (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote: > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming > makefonts1.2.tar.gz > please replace with it fonts/utilities/makefonts. > > This is a bundle of UNIX shell scripts which generate various fonts > calling metafont. It is useful for people who prefer not to use automatic > font generation. Some minor problems have been fixed, and running metafont > is a little more flexible. I have installed the files as requested. They should soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Cheers, Reinhard -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ftpmaint@dante.de From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat May 4 08:30:32 1996 Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 13:28:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Dvips, HP/LJ4, two sided printing -- how? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Volker, In message <199604302137.JAA10076@andromeda.elec.canterbury.ac.nz>, kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Volker Kuhlmann) writes: > > Our HP lasterjet 4 printer has been upgraded and can now print double sided. > > What do I need to put in the dvips config file to turn two sided printing on > > (or off)? > > I have put together some config files which control two/one-sided printing, and > a few other things as well. It sounded like Karl Berry wanted to include them > with dvips (what has happened to that?), but in the mean time I could put them > on CTAN (and send you a copy if you are desperate, 3240 bytes gzipped tar). These files are now on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/dviware/dvipsconfig and will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Cheers, Reinhard - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ftpmaint@dante.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMYs/SUbfUueFIgaNAQEjXQP/f5PcJfR8V72TCA1juhTjTY+lI8yBoWK3 XSr2Mik7MEjAmtt7sddCtuqWpIJJs/+YbscEvWa/zq2go5lI0m7rPK/TYyr94tqo iLBnMG9zJq3BHQmYPLP50eo9sigqcxniZcPvm8u3kCOndwcHQfG7XcpociELVqll jqHjV2FkhJw= =mHT4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 4 12:37:52 1996 Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 16:35:25 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: protopap@bekas.cog.brown.edu Subject: Re: APA format package for LaTeX2e Thanassi Protopapaswrites: > I have uploaded to ftp.shsu.edu/incoming/apa the files apa.cls, apa.bst, > apa.doc, and theapa.doc. They can be used to format text according to > the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (4th ed.) > specifications for manuscripts or, with an option to the package, > in an APA journal style format or as a regular document. > > I suppose they should be installed at > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa > > Let me know if there are any problems or if more information is needed. > > Thanassi Protopapas > Dept. of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences > Brown University I have installed his apa directory here at ftp.tex.ac.uk It should make it back to SHSU some day; a copy should be on ftp.cdrom.com fairly soon Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 7 01:14:57 1996 Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 21:38:51 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Peter Schmitt Subject: Re: Submission : backgrnd.tex & shade.sty Peter Schmitt writes (ages ago): > I have just put to small files into the /incoming directory at SHSU. > > shade.sty is the union of several small files including > grey.mf to produce a small font used to shade rectangles, > a file with macros for using it > backgrnd.tex provides a possibility to vertically mark material > by changebars (using TeX's \rule command only), > or - alternatively - putting it on grey background > (using the font of shade.sty) > (therefore: both tools do not require PostScript or driver specials) > > Both files should be considered as test versions. > > If you would like to rename the files to more appropriate names > I would, of course, not object. I finally got around to installing these packages at ftp.tex.ac.uk They will propagate to dante in due course, and thence (eventually) to SHSU. After a certain amount of discussion with Peter, I went away to think about where they should go, forgot about them, noticed a posting of his mentioning them, printed them out, and finally (on a public holiday, today) had time to evaluate them. In the event, I've decided to install them both in macros/generic, rather than to create a new macros/generic/test. There's no distinction in the macros/generic tree as to the status of the macros, and a separate directory didn't seem appropriate. Peter was not able to recommend a place, but I have to admit that I don't really have the structure of that part of the tree at my fingertips either... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 7 01:06:21 1996 Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 21:44:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Frank Bennett Subject: Re: CTAN submission `printmagic' Nearly a month ago, Frank Bennett wrote: > I've just put two files, printmagic.tar and CONTACT, > on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. > > The tar file contains a terse README and three other files (printcap, > a magic filter script, and a bash script. Together with other > utilities, mentioned in comments to the printcap, these show > how to set up a Linux print queue to which vanilla PC users > on a Novell LAN can submit print jobs to LaTeX without having > any access to LaTeX itself. Log files for failed jobs are returned > to the user via email. Almost as good as being there... > > The CONTACT file is an afterthought; I forgot to include my > email address in the tar file. > > Although this is a fairly trivial set of stuff, perhaps it > should be announced to the list --- even if the programming > is more or less trivial, this particular combination of > utilities might not have occurred to folks. The tar file turned out not to contain all it claimed to contain, and (as is my wont with things that aren't entirely trivial) the upload fell off the back of my mind. The stuff is now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk as support/printmagic Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 7 01:05:54 1996 Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 22:03:26 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: bts@unx.sas.com Subject: Portmanteau footnote package I have just installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk a new package which offers a variety of footnote facilities - paragraph footnotes (i.e., all the footnotes on a page are run together as a single paragraph - footnotes numbered `per page' (using code by Brian Schellenberger, not as far as I know related to the footnpag package) - footnotes forced to the bottom of the page when the page otherwise ends short (though `bottom' floats still appear below the footnotes) plus one or two other related minor facilities. The package requires David Kastrup's patch package, available as macros/generic/patch.doc Though it is supported, the package is only tested under current LaTeX (1994/12/01); I've been working (on and off) on this package since that halcyon Christmas holiday in 1993 when the first Alpha release of LaTeX2e kept us all busy... When I came to need it for a private project recently, it didn't work; substantial changes were necessary, and I can't say for sure which version necessitated those changes. The installation took place (of course) at ftp.tex.ac.uk Who knows when it will make its way across the pond...? Robin Fairbairns From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Tue May 7 21:29:15 1996 Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:03:04 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.05 released This announces version 1.05 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial: HTML: http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html [Part 1] http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/221/node63.html [Part 2] http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/222/node38.html [Part 3] PostScript: ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/220/textproc.ps.gz [Part 1] ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/221/textproc.ps.gz [Part 2] ftp://asisftp.cern.ch/cnl/222/textproc.ps.gz [Part 3] The software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.05 * FeynMF now coexists with french.sty and other packages that change the \catcode of ``:''. * Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.03, which could cause problems with font loading. Unfortunately, the fix has to give up some compatibility with earlier versions. Sources for version 1.02 and earlier which used \noexpand in labels have to upgraded or the option `pre-1.03' has to be used. Sorry. -- Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7 http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B From piet@cs.ruu.nl Tue May 7 08:18:55 1996 Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 13:07:12 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: New fancyheadings.sty Sorry about that, but there was a % missing in the fancyheadings.sty that I uploaded. I have uploaded the new version on ftp.dante.de:/incoming/. And the file should be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 7 15:01:21 1996 Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 14:20:19 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu I have taken control of this mailing list, thanks to help from the Postmaster at SHSU. I was somewhat depressed to come to work on my first day of `ownership' to find that there were 9 addresses on the list that bounce. I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list. I won't (for obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action. If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off all the mailing lists you're using. You can sign off ctan-ann by sending a message saying nothing but "signoff" to ctan-ann-request@shsu.edu From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 7 22:37:13 1996 Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 17:58:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: uploaded: Ukrainian hyphenation patterns -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Yannis Haralambous > I have just placed two files (test_ukr_hyphenation.mac > and test_ukr_hyphenation.win) on the /incoming directory > of ftp.loria.fr > > There are the same files, in Macintosh Cyrillic and Windows Cyrillic > encodings. They contain about 11,700 hyphenated Ukrainian words, and > I would like people speaking Ukrainian to read them and send me > feedback, so that I can rectify my Ukrainian hyphenation patterns. > > I will make the necssary publicity, please just put these files > in languages/ukrainian. Later on, when I'll have rectified the patterns > and the results are satisfactory I'll replace them by the real patterns. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/languages/ukrainian as requested. They will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors in due time. NOTE: Please upload files in the /incoming directories of ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de. Don't do it anywhere else. We do *not* have access to other server's /incoming directories and it is a major hassle to bother the FTP admins of this servers to copy the files onto a CTAN host. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMY9zKEbfUueFIgaNAQGjBAQAqbQR8GkN46ovMBkV4Qc+2rqg3TgBPeqG EDMolOCB1kQ2eorbPCKwaB+GdAaxuB9tsbY6rmbsct+0z4lCXzAAJVkII4vUKBd4 qjCP8OtMwAVP5yc+z3nLJqec0P1rezdIfF/5gyPmLPvXSFhhVrdhHB3D6+xR6Pea thZXItCZKUo= =cN5h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From gdearc@econ.lsa.umich.edu Tue May 7 19:48:26 1996 Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 16:21:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Giuseppe De Arcangelis Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu On Tue, 7 May 1996, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > I have taken control of this mailing list, thanks to help from the > Postmaster at SHSU. > > I was somewhat depressed to come to work on my first day of `ownership' > to find that there were 9 addresses on the list that bounce. > > I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I > get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list. I won't (for > obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action. > > If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off > all the mailing lists you're using. You can sign off ctan-ann by > sending a message saying nothing but "signoff" to > ctan-ann-request@shsu.edu > Robin, I think that this policy is a little too strict. Just two weeks ago our cluster had a hacker attack and mail account in Rome have been bouncing back messages for about a week. Maybe 4/5 bounces would be a more proper policy. Giuseppe *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Giuseppe De Arcangelis fax (313) 764 2769 The University of Michigan e-mail: gdearc@umich.edu Dept. of Economics gdearc@serifos.caspur.it Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 URL: http://www.econ.lsa.umich.edu/~gdearc/ From R.A.Reese@ucc.hull.ac.uk Wed May 8 05:18:58 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 09:13:07 +0100 (BST) From: R. Allan Reese Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu On Tue, 7 May 1996, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > If you leave your present address, it is common courtesy to sign off > all the mailing lists you're using. If only life were so simple. I have "left my current address" several times thanks to our "policy of continuous improvement" among email providers. It's not lack of courtesy, Robin, it's those s.o.b. programs that don't have the nous to recognise "fred, now at xyz but previously at abc." Yours, the artist formerly known as, R. Allan Reese Email: r.a.reese@ucc.hull.ac.uk Head of Applications, Computer Centre Direct voice: +44 1482 465296 Hull University Voice messages: +44 1482 465685 Hull HU6 7RX, U.K. Fax: +44 1482 466441 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 8 06:30:01 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:12:13 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: James.Ashton@keating.anu.edu.au Subject: Re: CTAN Submission James Ashton writes: > I've just uploaded two files for the CTAN archive to pip.shsu.edu. It's not safe to rely on the machine name ... the advertised name is ftp.shsu.edu... Anyway, by the magic of mirroring, the files appeared here. > I've placed them in /incoming/indxcite and the files names are: > > indxcite.dtx.gz > indxcite.ins.gz > > The files comprise a LaTeX2e package which allows the authors of papers > cited via BibTeX to be automatically indexed. I think the files should > go in an indxcite directory within either of: > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported > > I'm not sure if `supported' means, `supported by the LaTeX3 group' or > just `supported in some sense by someone'. I am willing to provide a > limited level of support for the software within the restrictions of my > time. It means `supported in some sense by someone'. The stuff in latex/packages is what's `supported by the LaTeX3 group'. I've gunzipped the files, and duly installed them as macros/latex/contrib/supported/indxcite You should note that it doesn't unpack cleanly with current LaTeX (though it does with LaTeX of 1995/06/01, and presumably with earlier versions...). Thanks for the contribution (it's one of those things people are *always* asking for!). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 8 07:05:40 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:43:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: New fancyheadings.sty (fwd) > From: Piet van Oostrum > > Sorry about that, but there was a % missing in the fancyheadings.sty that I > uploaded. I have uploaded the new version on ftp.dante.de:/incoming/. And > the file should be moved to tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings The corrected file has been installed on ftp.dante.de yesterday and should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors by now. For the CTAN team, Reinhard zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 == Weisst Du, UNIX ist fuer normale Menschen praktisch unbedienbar == F. Gers From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 8 07:29:18 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 11:58:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: mybrief > From: "Alexander Fries" > Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 09:46:40 MEZ > > I've upload a new german letter-class for LaTeX2e on the CTAN-server at > DANTE.DE. There are three files named > > mybrief.cls (the LaTeX2e-class) > mybrief.sty (the LaTeX2e-package of mybrief.cls) > mybrief.tex (a small test-letter which gives an example of the options) > > in the directory MYBRIEF. [ 'brief' is the German word for 'letter' -rz ] > The class is based on letter.cls. I've designed it for german users. There is a > new letter-head with a lot of usefull options like a line for references. The > to-adress is placed for german envelopes with a window for the to-adress. > The option Calli requires the callig15-font. It writes the Name from the > from-adress in calligraphic letters. > > Please put the files into a directory like .../package/german/mybrief I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief for the macros/latex/packages directory is for packages from the LaTeX team only. The files will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 From Axel.Schwarz@post.rwth-aachen.de Wed May 8 22:46:23 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:00:01 +0100 From: Axel Schwarz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: "CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu" Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu On Tue, 07 May 1996 14:20:19 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I >get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list. I won't (for >obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action. Perhaps a less strict idea could be waiting one or two weeks, as the number of bounces depends on the number of posted announcements and sometimes there are two or three a day, sometimes none for 2 weeks. Axel ____________________________________________________ Axel Schwarz Axel.Schwarz@post.RWTH-Aachen.de Schwarz@RWTH-Aachen.de Mitglied im TeamOs/2 Deutschland & International Based on 100 recycled and unbleached electrons ____________________________________________________ From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 9 21:32:08 1996 Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 15:12:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: ChkTeX re-submitted. (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" > > Hi! I'm resending the ChkTeX archive; as I have to change the dir > structure in order to support multiple architectures. > > Please unarchive the .tar.gz archive as usual > (ftp.dante.de:/incoming/chktex/chktex.tar.gz), and put it in support/chktex. The new version of the package is installed on ftp.dante.de in support/chktex and will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk overnight and to the CTAN mirrors in due time. Watch out for the creation date 'May 8' of the directory to be sure that the new version is available. The file ChkTeX.readme is appended below. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Short: v1.4. Finds typographic errors in LaTeX Author: (Jens T. Berger Thielemann) (Bj\o rn Ove Thue) [MSDOS port] Uploader: (Jens T. Berger Thielemann) Type: text/tex Replaces: text/tex/ChkTeX.lha Version: 1.4 ##### ### ### ######## ### ## ### ## ## ## ## ## # @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@ @@ ####### @@ @ @@ @@@ @@ @@ @@ @@ ## # @@ && && && &&&& && @@ & && &&& && && && && && && @@@@ & && %%%%% %%% %%% %%% %%% %% && %%% %%% v1.4 && & %%%%%%% This program was written in frustration of that some constructs in LaTeX are sometimes non-intuitive, and easy to forget. It is *not* a replacement for the built-in checker in LaTeX; however, it catches some typographic errors LaTeX oversees. In other words, it is Lint for LaTeX. Filters are also provided for checking the LaTeX parts of CWEB documents. While written on an Amiga, it is written in ANSI C, so you can use this at your UN*X/MSDOS/whatever site also. Full source included. The program also supports output formats suitable for further processing by editors or other programs, making errors easy to catch. These are also fully customizable. An ARexx script for interfacing with SCMSG (and via that, other editors) is included. A special script for CygnusED and an experimental script for GoldED is included. The program can also produce output suitable for Emacs. The program itself does not have any machine requirements; Amiga, MSDOS and OS/2 binaries are available. Of course, you'll need ARexx and SCMSG to benefit from the ARexx scripts. Feature list ~~~~~~~~~~~~ o Supports over 30 warnings. Warnings include: - Commands terminated with space. Ignores \tt, etc. - Space in front of references instead of ~. - Forgetting to group parenthesis characters when sub-/superscripting. - Italic correction ("\/") mistakes (double, missing, unnecessary). - Parenthesis and environment matching. - Ellipsis detection; also checks whether to use \dots, \cdots or \ldots. - Enforcement of normal space after abbreviation. Detect most abbreviations automagically. - Enforcement of end-of-sentence space when the last sentence ended with capital letter. - Mathmode on/off detection. - Quote checking, both wrong types (") and wrong direction. - Recommends splitting three quotes in a row. - Searching for user patterns. - Displays comments. - Space in front of \label and similar commands. - Use of "x" instead of $\times$ between numbers. - Multiple spaces in input. - Text which may be ignored. - Mathematical operators typeset as variables. o Fully customizable. Intelligent resource format makes it possible to make ChkTeX respect your LaTeX setup. Even command-line options may be specified globally in the ".chktexrc" file. o Supports \input command; both TeX and LaTeX version. Actually includes the files. TEXINPUTS-equivalent search path. o Intelligent warning/error handling. The user may promote/mute warnings to suit his preferences. You may also mute warnings in the header of a file; thus killing much unwanted garbage. o Scripts included for checking CWEB files written in LaTeX. (Requires perl v5). o Supports both LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e. o Flexible output handling. Has some predefined format, but lets the user specify his own format. Uses a "printf()" similar syntax. "lacheck" compatible mode included for interfacing with the AUC TeX Emacs mode. o An ARexx script for interfacing with SCMSG, the SAS/C message browser, is included. Special script included for CygnusED/GoldED, for binding to hotkey. o Amiga Workbench support. Parameters may be passed by shift-clicking the LaTeX files and setting the remaining options in the tooltypes. o Wildcard matching (Amiga only). Matches file patterns internally, thus saving a lot of work. This is, however, platform-specific code - on UNIX boxes this is done by the shell. o Written in ANSI C. configure script included for easy setup and installation on UNIX systems. Still, it is important to realize that the output from ChkTeX is only intended as a *guide* to fixing faults. However, it is by no means always correct. This means that correct LaTeX code may produce errors in ChkTeX, and vice versa: Incorrect LaTeX code may pass silently through. New features ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Modifications and additions since v1.3: o The whole subpart containing the error-checking routines has been restructured. This added the following benefits: - We are now *much* more context-sensitive; warnings are to a much larger degree muted/promoted according to whether we are in math-mode or not. - Detects math and verbatim environment (you may configure which are which), and acts accordingly. o Yet more flexible resource format. UNIX systems may now have a *global* resource file; thus saving the individual users a lot of work installing the program. o You may now customize which dashlengths you allow in different contexts. o Removed that silly twirling baton which no-one used anyway. o A few more warnings: - Checks that quotes are used the right way. - Checks for use of "sin" instead of "\sin" in mathmode and similar. o Compiles happily on MSDOS computers; binary included. o Configure script. o Output formats may now be specified globally in the ".chktexrc" file now, for easy access. o Most other suggestions incorporated. Legal stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~ ChkTeX, documentation, installations scripts, CWEB filters and other materials provided are copyright (c) 1995-96 Jens T. Berger Thielemann, unless explicitly stated otherwise. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ A few words on installation on various platforms: Amiga ===== Use the supplied Installer script. MS-DOS & OS/2 ============= Copy the binary ("ChkTeX.exe") to somewhere in your path, and place the "chktexrc" file in the same directory. UNIX ==== Type "configure", "make" and finally "make install". If you don't have superuser privileges and access to system areas, you should type "configure --help" to help you set up correct paths. Other platforms =============== First of all, you have to copy the "config.h.in" file to a file named "config.h". Then, edit it to reflect your system. Do the same with "ChkTeX.h" (this file has been reduced significantly). If you wish, you may define "DATADIR" to the path you want the global resource file to be put. Now, I would suggest that you also take a peak at the "OpSys.c" file first, and edit it appropiately, for more comfort. This should not be necessary, though, at least not the first time. Finally, you may now compile and link all .c files. Define "HAVE_CONFIG_H" to 1 (on the command-line, for instance). If the "config.h" you wish to use has another name, define "CONFIG_H_NAME" to that (in that case, don't define "HAVE_CONFIG_H"). Put the directory path of the "chktexrc" file in a environment variable named "CHKTEXRC". The files "deweb.in" and "chkweb.in" should be moved to a directory in your path. These files may need further setup, as they haven't got the location of perl and csh initialized. Note: You *must* install the new "chktexrc" file; ChkTeX will fail to function unless! After doing this, you may enhance ChkTeX' behaviour by reading/editing the ".chktexrc" file. Availability ~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program will be uploaded to AmiNet and CTAN; thus it can be found at any mirrors of those. Please note that earlier versions of ChkTeX have been uploaded to Aminet under the same archive name, to keep consistent with Aminet's policy of keeping versions out of filenames. Please read the file "ChkTeX.readme" (which is in the same directory as the archive) to find out the version number. I'm now uploading the archive uncompressed to CTAN; however, most of the ftpservers in that network allow you to retrieve a directory compressed in whatever way you prefer. Aminet will as usual receive a LhArc archive. Mirrors of both networks include (I've tried to list only one/country): Amiga Network (Aminet) ====================== Directory: text/tex/, Name: chktex.lha Site Directory ftp.wustl.edu (USA (MO)) /pub/aminet ftp.livewire.com.au (Australia) /pub/aminet ftp.luth.se (Scandinavia) /pub/aminet ftp.eunet.ch (Switzerland) /pub/aminet ftp.germany.aminet.org (Germany) /pub/aminet aminet.grolier.fr (France) /pub/aminet ftp.giga.or.at (Austria) /pub/aminet ftp.unina.it (Italy) /pub/aminet ftp.ua.pt (Portugal) /pub/aminet ftp.gui.uva.es (Spain) /pub/aminet ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK) /pub/aminet Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) ======================================== Directory: support/chktex/ Site Directory ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive ftp.dante.de (Germany) /pub/tex src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex kadri.ut.ee (Estonia) /pub/tex ftp.funet.fi (Finland) /pub/TeX/CTAN ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan) /CTAN sunsite.icm.edu.pl (Poland) /pub/CTAN ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX ftp.ee.up.ac.za (South Africa) /tex-archive ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX ftp.univie.ac.at (Österreich) /packages/tex dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive Contacting the author ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you wish to contact me for any reason (scout-badges, more tests, bug reports, suggestions, hellos, smiley's, etc.), or would like to participate in the development of ChkTeX, write to: Jens Berger Spektrumvn. 4 N-0666 Oslo Norway E-mail: Any signs of intelligent life is welcomed; that should exclude piracy. Have fun. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZCdvEbfUueFIgaNAQG4bAQAm87JZcRQVkbmXAHFFm11sXVR2BiD6Ezz Kf5dtwVkg6jpDx5RxcVTzzZZZioHF7RAWcTDf4oDMt1bNJqCjCwPyPABAOWZpkiJ AHRiViGtrznsGspa0eKZBpA3a/4S2BrMt9n1oNaBWHYvn2uPXDiQ3gckzOoHW/Kx 1TT4VqX7yjU= =sM4y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 9 03:48:17 1996 Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:35:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: ragged.sty (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Laurent Siebenmann > > Uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 25920 May 9 07:03 ragged.sty > > --- brief overview : ragged.sty is a new package (beta version) > that provides any TeX format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and > "raggedcenter" formatting of paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL > OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF RAGGEDNESS. > > --- proposed destination in the CTAN directory hierarchy. > > ctan/tex-archive/macros/generic/ > > Barbara Beeton has indicated to be that shee did something like this > by another method many years back; see her Plain TeX "Tugboat" style. The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested, replacing the beta version of 01-Apr-96. It will soon be propagated to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZGSM0bfUueFIgaNAQF0RQQAm+Kdm91PHr78t7sxrkkhXhr6+rnPme/g py8JR65HyX7VQde82zB/yVNBjfCR9UolMnev1g4m0Outzi7PNs/PvebcAHkd8yki ArHOXzBjsjyHes2RI7EHxmsgIBjp9yR8A0lo3NOdaxmA5T8wD8R9WL2sVkcu/+i9 xLiJqGvhQZ0= =2zDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 9 17:46:48 1996 Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:35:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: ragged.sty (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Laurent Siebenmann > > Uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 25920 May 9 07:03 ragged.sty > > --- brief overview : ragged.sty is a new package (beta version) > that provides any TeX format including LaTeX with "raggedleft" and > "raggedcenter" formatting of paragraphs while maintaining FULL CONTROL > OF HYPHENATION AND DEGREE OF RAGGEDNESS. > > --- proposed destination in the CTAN directory hierarchy. > > ctan/tex-archive/macros/generic/ > > Barbara Beeton has indicated to be that shee did something like this > by another method many years back; see her Plain TeX "Tugboat" style. The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested, replacing the beta version of 01-Apr-96. It will soon be propagated to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZGSM0bfUueFIgaNAQF0RQQAm+Kdm91PHr78t7sxrkkhXhr6+rnPme/g py8JR65HyX7VQde82zB/yVNBjfCR9UolMnev1g4m0Outzi7PNs/PvebcAHkd8yki ArHOXzBjsjyHes2RI7EHxmsgIBjp9yR8A0lo3NOdaxmA5T8wD8R9WL2sVkcu/+i9 xLiJqGvhQZ0= =2zDM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu May 9 05:28:39 1996 Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:57:54 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Axel Schwarz writes: > >I have decided to behave in a gross fashion: any address for which I > >get two bounce messages will be deleted from the list. I won't (for > >obvious reasons) mail the said addresses to report my action. > > Perhaps a less strict idea could be waiting one or two weeks, as > the number of bounces depends on the number of posted > announcements and sometimes there are two or three a day, > sometimes none for 2 weeks. He wasn't the only one to think I was being excessive. People presumably think I have nothing better to do with my time than to perform analyses of bounce messages; there are masses of them. In fact, I consider that management of the archive has a higher priority, and doing the work I'm paid for has higher priority even than that. If the world at large would like to get a subscription together to pay the University of Cambridge for my time, I would be happy to work out a more `sensitive' scheme. In the mean time, consider my decision `final'. Robin Fairbairns (Not intending to represent the CTAN team in this outburst) From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 9 18:47:47 1996 Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 15:01:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: ChkTeX & CTAN - yet again. :) (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" > > Sorry for being a total bother; but the distribution I released yesterday > was somewhat flawed; the Makefile wasn't 100% correct (one has to type > "make all" instead of just "make"). This is partly due to that IRIX make > doesn't emit error messages when the Makefile isn't correct. > > Anyway, just put the Makefile.in file included in this mail into the > directory as "support/chktex/unix/Makefile.in". This should make me shut > up for a while. :-) The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de as support/chktex/unix/Makefile.in as requested and will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. But please, please don't send files per e-mail; put them on ftp.dante.de or ftp.tex.ac.uk into the /incoming directory. It's a lot more work to decode the base64-encoded mail, transfer the extracte files from my office in Hamburg to the DANTE server in Heidelberg and finally install it there! > Thanks for your work; it's really nice to have such quick and good FTP > admins! :-) Good to hear such encouragement :-) For the CTAN team, Reinhard - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZHstUbfUueFIgaNAQEfgQP+OIvtApvKAZIhMelxpGs1LkA7wsXe68N2 494Nm8MHiMNGuBe96LhZpxXtbocHzvvmwqc4HS/5BGARZKXzKkIB94aeZfl4R2IZ KcQIuJgtKDEgpd7oh4DB/FNSZ5BnA8H7zcM0HE5zptaGlX9BqlffAnBJoi1+yfP8 zLCrHMoxqJE= =Jtzu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From grath@math.duke.edu Thu May 9 11:02:05 1996 Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 08:22:36 -0500 From: Steve Grathwohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Mailing list CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu At 8:57 AM 5/9/96, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > People presumably think I have nothing better to do with my time than > to perform analyses of bounce messages; there are masses of them. > > In fact, I consider that management of the archive has a higher > priority, and doing the work I'm paid for has higher priority even > than that. > > If the world at large would like to get a subscription together to pay > the University of Cambridge for my time, I would be happy to work out > a more `sensitive' scheme. In the mean time, consider my decision > `final'. > > Robin Fairbairns > > (Not intending to represent the CTAN team in this outburst) Robin, Another way to put it would be that if someone thinks he/she is subscribed to the list, but receives no messages from it, then he/she should resubscribe to the list. Otherwise, try the decaf; these folks who responded to your post were not trying to give you a hard time. I and many others find CTAN-Ann useful, but we don't want to ruin anyone's health over it. -- Steve Grathwohl Duke Mathematical Journal * International Mathematics Research Notices grath@math.duke.edu * 919-687-3634 * fax: 919-688-5595 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 10 05:34:05 1996 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:39:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: fix for texed122.zip (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Frank Stippich) > > I`ve uploaded fix122a.zip into the incoming directory. This file > contains a fix for texed122.zip. Please move this file into the > systems/os2/texed directory. [ Note: texed122.zip is version 1.22 of a TeX shell for OS/2 which has been installed on CTAN on 30-Apr-96 -rz ] > Thanks > Frank Stippich I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/texed as requested. It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. for the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZLyu0bfUueFIgaNAQF0+gQAwPe7yhRDDKjQg9OGXT2+VE7eCyRRLALT nHH3G0v4cf3ugnTeDir810AVESkplXMw2aKOHdv6c9YBXdUPxS9sml2U5AGnGdqB A/uDUQkVdWyvtbLQYCZTOSqKIFua4WAgAQVujxLoOCQIHqoEo70qyMOjx+CDCRcE s5x4SMDsdUI= =unPE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 10 05:21:29 1996 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:09:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it (Enrico Bertolazzi) > > I have submitted two packages in one tar file easy.tar.gz > in the site ftp.dante.de/incoming. > This two packages simplify a bit the typing of equations and vectors > or matrices in article. The packages easyeqn introduce some equation > environment that permits to write equations on mutiple line with a > single number. It use a sintax like the array environment to define > column alignment. A package option permits to number only the > equation that have labelled. The easyvector package is a simple > macro package that permit to write vector or matrices with a C-like > sintax. > I suggest to put the packages in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib > in the CTAN directory hierarchy. The files are now on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy and will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZL5k0bfUueFIgaNAQGEOwP/beVFRU6xY5JiMbrhuLlo4ERqrrhExiS4 0f5h4yASWDsKG3cAOkuPWw/HdQG2GLoNqIQTlld3OAZOBYiV/GBLaQr6zaWCWlzT aJeiWOm5C5O48uXuSX4/N2BtnWKHV4knfKIoxvaFgNBCEvdobQZnXkVndMWnHMBa SJHBWai65T0= =0KbP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Fri May 10 07:12:31 1996 Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:09:04 +0100 From: David Carlisle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: `graphics package in plain TeX' update The file miniltx.tex, part of the tex-archive/macros/plain/graphics/ collection which allows the use of LaTeX's graphics, colour, and picture mode commands in plain TeX based formats has just been updated. (At Cambridge, at other ctan sites in due course) Principally this is to add the \setlength command which may be used internally by some arguments to \includegraphics, eg \includegraphics[height=2cm]{file.ps} should now work in plain TeX. See the file 00readme.txt in that directory for more details of these files. David From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun May 12 10:41:34 1996 Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 15:39:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: Upload: MiKTeX 1.05 (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Christian Schenk > Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:10:26 +0200 > > I have uploaded to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex > ... > Please remove all existing files from the directory > > /tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex > > and then move the above files to that directory thus replacing > MiKTeX 1.04 with MiKTeX 1.05. Thanks for the contribution. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in systems/win32/miktex as requested. They will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirror. Oh, and I should better supply part of the MiKTeX readme: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is it? *********** MiKTeX 1.05 is an implementation of TeX, METAFONT, dvips and other TeX related utilities for Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95. The whole package includes the following programs: * TeX 3.14159 * LaTeX2e (November 1995) * METAFONT 2.718 * dvips 5.58 * MakeIndex 2.12 * BibTeX 0.99c * YAP (Yet Another Previewer) 0.90 * TeXware (dvitype, ...) * METFONTware (gftopk, ...) MiKTeX features - --------------- * Support of long filenames. * On the fly generation of TFM files (via TeX). * On the fly generation of PK files (via dvips and/or YAP). * Free software. Source code included. What is it not? *************** Most of the programs that come with MiKTeX are command line oriented, i.e., you will miss a graphical user interface. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZXp80bfUueFIgaNAQGm5wP/SdZcTmEqYE3cLwGsbNlMRTs1FsNus6Lh Y1Gn0yBoKtPpBmCpL4qGcwDpbDvn8dRN40g2TdCRoDVNv23HKqcFGSr9JlqVj/2/ 9dzYclKw2BteDN4pYYlbY3u7/shtZhmJzViHf/qUdv+3Mnjvcr9DpT9TY1vn0W45 k+nixBSkWzQ= =xlxC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 05:49:27 1996 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:29:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: language/hebrew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The directory language/hebrew has been replaced by a new version compiled by Rama Porrat (rama@cc.huji.ac.il) on ftp.dante.de. The new files will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. The readme file for this directory is: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.1 -- Contents of the directory hebrew - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The currect directory holds a collection of files pertaining to usage of Hebrew and other right-to-left languages in TeX. Included are modified versions of TeX which make it possible to typeset right-to-left as well as left-to-right text. More details re the Hebrew TeX and LaTeX are available in readme.2. A readme file is available in most subdirectories. Directory contents: ./ editors/ macros/ readme.1 ../ fonts/ msdos/ readme.2 Xhebrew/ guides/ pc_tex--xet/ unix_tex--xet/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.1 This file - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.2 An explanation re Hebrew TeX and Hebrew LaTeX - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xhebrew: Files pertaining to installing Hebrew on X11. ./ fonts.alias heb10x20.snf readme ../ fonts.dir heb6x13.snf - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- editors: Editors for pc and for unix, which use Hebrew + English. For pc: hed For unix: hemacs, vi.iv, vim. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fonts: This directory contains Hebrew fonts. ./ doc/ newcode/ pccode/ readme ../ for_all_codes/ oldcode/ ps/ - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- guides: ./ heblatex_guide.ps readme ../ hebrew_cs_guide.ps - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- macros: This directory contains Hebrew inputs and guides. Read readme . ./ hebcal.sty hebrew_newcode.sty ../ hebcal_newcode.sty hebrew_p.sty heb_macros.tex hebcal_p.sty readme heb_macros_newcode.tex hebletter.sty heb_pc.tex hebrew.sty - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- msdos: Use the COM files to install Hebrew support on your DOS PC. Use hebvga.com and keybhe.com for a VGA screen. ./ editor.zip hebvga.com readme ../ hebega.com keybhe.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pc_tex--xet: tex--xet for PC. Read readme . ./ initex.exe plain.tcp pubtex.doc tex.poo ../ lplain.fmt pubmf.doc pubtex.zip virtex.exe addition.zip plain.fmt pubmf.zip readme - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- unix_tex--xet: Files for modifying the official TeX to include right-to-left typesetting. Read readme. ./ README.1 hebpk300.tar.gz tex--xet.ch ../ README.2 readme tex--xet.web - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^^\ \/^\ ^^^\ rama@cc.huji.ac.il \ \ /___\ \ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks a lot for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZby3UbfUueFIgaNAQEbAAP9GD50L8WpB/CZ2zQoMpPGZomSBCG09Rx4 bJUFjjdb/RLqTHcS9OjwAtC61tUJP6g7rfYmiqt8x+ThSOoXlX1w4MREpJ/nQEXd 8vNloW3dl3gCDVwscP/OptX3sKRcwt74dyj6GP9viOLm8axVOMmGqrK9GgYbjGYK PTEXyrJp05Q= =8YTw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 09:02:55 1996 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:29:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: language/hebrew -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The directory language/hebrew has been replaced by a new version compiled by Rama Porrat (rama@cc.huji.ac.il) on ftp.dante.de. The new files will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. The readme file for this directory is: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.1 -- Contents of the directory hebrew - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The currect directory holds a collection of files pertaining to usage of Hebrew and other right-to-left languages in TeX. Included are modified versions of TeX which make it possible to typeset right-to-left as well as left-to-right text. More details re the Hebrew TeX and LaTeX are available in readme.2. A readme file is available in most subdirectories. Directory contents: ./ editors/ macros/ readme.1 ../ fonts/ msdos/ readme.2 Xhebrew/ guides/ pc_tex--xet/ unix_tex--xet/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.1 This file - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- readme.2 An explanation re Hebrew TeX and Hebrew LaTeX - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xhebrew: Files pertaining to installing Hebrew on X11. ./ fonts.alias heb10x20.snf readme ../ fonts.dir heb6x13.snf - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- editors: Editors for pc and for unix, which use Hebrew + English. For pc: hed For unix: hemacs, vi.iv, vim. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fonts: This directory contains Hebrew fonts. ./ doc/ newcode/ pccode/ readme ../ for_all_codes/ oldcode/ ps/ - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- guides: ./ heblatex_guide.ps readme ../ hebrew_cs_guide.ps - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- macros: This directory contains Hebrew inputs and guides. Read readme . ./ hebcal.sty hebrew_newcode.sty ../ hebcal_newcode.sty hebrew_p.sty heb_macros.tex hebcal_p.sty readme heb_macros_newcode.tex hebletter.sty heb_pc.tex hebrew.sty - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- msdos: Use the COM files to install Hebrew support on your DOS PC. Use hebvga.com and keybhe.com for a VGA screen. ./ editor.zip hebvga.com readme ../ hebega.com keybhe.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pc_tex--xet: tex--xet for PC. Read readme . ./ initex.exe plain.tcp pubtex.doc tex.poo ../ lplain.fmt pubmf.doc pubtex.zip virtex.exe addition.zip plain.fmt pubmf.zip readme - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- unix_tex--xet: Files for modifying the official TeX to include right-to-left typesetting. Read readme. ./ README.1 hebpk300.tar.gz tex--xet.ch ../ README.2 readme tex--xet.web - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^^\ \/^\ ^^^\ rama@cc.huji.ac.il \ \ /___\ \ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks a lot for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZby3UbfUueFIgaNAQEbAAP9GD50L8WpB/CZ2zQoMpPGZomSBCG09Rx4 bJUFjjdb/RLqTHcS9OjwAtC61tUJP6g7rfYmiqt8x+ThSOoXlX1w4MREpJ/nQEXd 8vNloW3dl3gCDVwscP/OptX3sKRcwt74dyj6GP9viOLm8axVOMmGqrK9GgYbjGYK PTEXyrJp05Q= =8YTw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 13 09:46:30 1996 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 14:17:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission, Update -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Michael Mehlich > Date: Mon, 13 May 96 11:58:48 +0200 > > I just uploaded a new version of my fp-package to > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/fp.tgz that corrects > some bugs of the old version. > It is a tared, gzipped directory that replaces the > old version at > macros/latex/contrib/other/fp > > About the package: > The package fp provides a huge amount of arithmetic > operations for fixed point real numbers of high precision. The package has been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/other/fp as requested, replacing the old version. Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZcoO0bfUueFIgaNAQHZZwP8D9RiB/2rzEM4FB2l/X/t4A1uRcOTQzT1 H9jWfX75tDL+bBZqqTZST9cfS882qRsAGfVk9Iud7SppwaS39tkLo+k1zY7ZK0mi tcrA/lX2sREgu2CmNEFwFab6tquEXClmJEH8NajqJ0Ha3ZmTq7Nk/btRwGNGe1jS 1D+6wDntVHY= =3cLu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 14 00:59:36 1996 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:45:47 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: Stats from ftp.tex.ac.uk, April 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Sun Mar 31 1996 TO Tue Apr 30 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 230160 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 25055126367 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 7425 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 808229883 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- 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There are many sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not logged and reported by this program. Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 50515 12120116976 21.95 48.37 TeX Informational Files 2989 4019667278 1.30 16.04 fonts 49780 2489420590 21.63 9.94 macros 46502 2284390981 20.20 9.12 support 30918 2215685981 13.43 8.84 tools 7306 464757896 3.17 1.85 dviware 6856 306641804 2.98 1.22 language 6549 263370267 2.85 1.05 web 13168 193744435 5.72 0.77 info 3940 181670512 1.71 0.73 graphics 4227 121596398 1.84 0.49 biblio 2987 90732766 1.30 0.36 Informational Files 114 81832963 0.05 0.33 usergrps 799 81562231 0.35 0.33 help 568 50422850 0.25 0.20 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 14 11:02:08 1996 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 14:54:11 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: csuov@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Mark Wooding writes: > OK. Second time lucky. I've uploaded mdwtools-1.02.tar.gz to /incoming > at ftp.tex.ac.uk. The archive contains a number of LaTeX packages which > are described fairly fully in the enclosed README file. The archive > contains a complete upgrade to the previous release, which is in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools. It includes a couple of new > packages, and lots of bug fixes and new bells and whistles for the old > ones. > > In summary: > > at.sty -- Provide `@' commands (which work like the `\' ones). > > doafter.sty -- Insert a token after a group (with all its \aftergroup > tokens) has finished. > > footnote.sty -- Various footnote related things. Save footnotes > around environments. `footnote' environment for > handling verbatim text. > > mathenv.sty -- Various aligning environments for maths. Demo of > table handling things from mdwtab.sty. > > mdwlist.sty -- Some odd bits to do with list handling. Customisable > description list. Creation of `compacted' lists with > less vertical space between items. > > mdwmath.sty -- Miscellaneous trivial maths things. > > mdwtab.sty -- Rewrite of LaTeX's `tabular' and `array' environment. > Extra features for nicer looking tables. More reusable > preamble parser. > > sverb.sty -- Various verbatim text handling things. > > syntax.sty -- Various syntax typesetting things. Syntax diagrams. I've installed these as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 17 05:05:53 1996 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:59:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: bertolaz@ing.unitn.it > Date: Thu, 16 May 96 12:26:02 +0200 > > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy_new1.tar.gz. It > contain version 0.1 of the easyeqn style, version 0.2 of the easyvet style > and version 0.1 of the easymat style. This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy wich > contain the old versions. > Easyeqn is a simple package for writing equations, in version 0.2 I have > improved the cross reference support. > Easyvet is a simple package for writing vectors in a C-like fashion, > in version 0.2 I have added a new vector declaration and > the possibility to have pre-defined vectors. > Easymat 0.1 is a new package style that can be useful in writing block > matrices. It can be viewed as an ``array'' enviroment with more kinds > of lines and reentrant. The files are now on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy as requested. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZwx0EbfUueFIgaNAQE2PAP/fO5m0Ew0f4WoXFfAyphJu1FvA4E6kqpn sXTjaSEpvwr1NcsqE+G2yaCGHVgPMlcHo6E604Av39WHpdldvSepCHGQubbwkXbr D77hXePAEaxqz3jrGEvBdUYSKNCInlj+NGgM9TShpdcY0ZN5Aa+dFhhn7LxUUqfZ 4TP3jLI5inM= =S198 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 17 06:26:33 1996 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:20:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: thesis and paper for LaTeX2e (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: Wenzel Matiaske > Date: Fri, 17 May 96 10:18:09 -0400 > > I have put an update of supported LaTeX2e classes thesis > (thesis1f.zip) and paper (paper1g.zip) on the CTAN into the directory > incoming. Please delete the elder files and put the new files into the > existing directories (thesis and paper) under the LaTeX2e tree. The packages have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directories macros/latex/contrib/supported/paper and macros/latex/contrib/supported/thesis as requested. - From the 'paper' documentation: The style files \verb|paper| and \verb|journal| are derived from the standard class \verb|article|. In difference to the standard document class the layout can be changed via layout options (\verb|slanted|, \verb|bold|, \verb|sfbold|) and font commands (\verb|\partfont{|{\em font\/}\verb|}|, \verb|\sectionfont{|{\em font\/}\verb|}| etc.). The class \texttt{paper} defines a new environment called \texttt{keywords} and the commands \verb|\subtitle{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and \verb|\institution{|\emph{text}\verb|}| for the title section. Three commands allow a small table of contents (\verb|\smalltableofcontents|), a small lists of figures (\verb|\smalllistoffigures|) or a small lists of tables (\verb|\smalllistoftables|). These commands are obsolete when using the \texttt{journal} style file. The format \texttt{journal} typically uses a master file which \verb|\include| the articles. The command \verb|\journalofcontents| produces a table of articles, revisions and parts of a journal. The new commands \verb|\shortauthor{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and \verb|\shorttitle{|\emph{text}\verb|}| are defined for head titles containing authors and titles. Head titles for the whole journal may be produced with the commands \verb|\oddrunhead{|\emph{text}\verb|}| and \verb|\evenrunhead{|\emph{text}\verb|}|. If you want to declare parts between the papers, you may use the command \verb|\journalpart[|\emph{option}\verb|]{|\emph{text}\verb|}| or \verb|\journalpart*{|\emph{text}\verb|}|. Two new commands are especially designed for revisions. The command \verb|\revison[|\emph{option}\verb|]{|\emph{author}\verb|}{|\emph{title}\verb|}| takes the author and the title of the revisited book. It produces a subsection like headline and an entry for the table of contents. The optional argument is used to put also the author of the revision into the table of contents. This command is also defined in the form \verb|\revision*|. The command \verb|\revauthor{|\emph{text}\verb|}| may be useful to sign a revision. It allows the commands \verb|\and| and \verb|\thanks|. - From the 'thesis' documentation: The style files \verb|thesis| and \verb|thema| base on the standard layout \verb|report|. In contrast to this standard document style the outlook of these styles is more European and more flexible. The layout may easily be changed via options like (defaults are underlined): \begin{description} \item[\underline{\texttt{indent}} or \texttt{noindent}] (no) indent of paragraphs and footnotes, \item[\texttt{itemization} or \underline{\texttt{noitemization}}] (no) bullets, stars etc. in the \texttt{itemize} environ\-ment, \item[\underline{\texttt{enumeration}} or \texttt{noenumeration}] alphanumeric or numeric \texttt{enumerate} environ\-ment, \item[\underline{\texttt{headline}} or \texttt{noheadline}, \texttt{headcount} or \underline{\texttt{noheadcount}}] change the layout of the headings, \item[\underline{\texttt{center}} or \texttt{nocenter}, \underline{\texttt{upper}} or \texttt{noupper}] change the style of the sectioning, \item[\underline{\texttt{slanted}} or \texttt{bold} or \texttt{sfbold}] change the fonts used in chapters, titles or headings, \item[\texttt{crosshair}] marks empty pages with a crosshair, which is useful for camera reproducing of the output, and \item[\texttt{chapterbib}] for chapter bibliographies with \BibTeX. \end{description} Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMZxEvEbfUueFIgaNAQFSeQP+KlKuQTuQPVIPrJFh4yvN9piW2fFKsjEG OiZeZbsWw4/CEo1YKzeMwkJEWGBW8WjeYRGA+a+VgPYcusPiVLjtR2bM3EJL4476 ten8ggBX28MT9m5dObwYd+U/k6s/Cx3UkaGKctaFLrOOkJ5uQVR0qLACK0zpFNIH b0Wlx6csRHk= =c0EB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 17 15:52:21 1996 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 14:03:00 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Peter@pwyz.rhein.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Uploading to CTAN (was Tibetan Fonts) In article <68$rOLChkoB@pwyz.rhein.de>, Peter Wyzlic wrote: >I've got a message from the USA where I am asked: > >>How do I upload to CTAN? shsu seemed kind of a morass. SHSU does indeed seem to be sinking into some sort of quagmire, but never fear. For uploads (only) feel free to wander across the atlantic to ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de /incoming. If you're doing it late enough in the (N American) day you'll probably find that the bandwidth (which the UK and German academic funding bodies pay for) is just about adequate. Please don't try to use European sites on a regular basis -- there are mirrors in the USA which are still working, notably ftp.cdrom.com, which mirrors ftp.tex.ac.uk We regret the problems N Americans (and those who mirrored N American sites) are suffering, but the matter is entirely out of the control of those of us who continue to (try to) run CTAN. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat May 18 12:28:03 1996 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 16:25:45 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: drowell@mit.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: MikTeX 1.5 on CTAN In article <319D8E76.2A3@mit.edu>, Derek Rowell wrote: >It seems as though the new MikTeX distribution on CTAN is all messed up. > There are many zero-length files and the only valid ones seem to be the >REAME types. When you say "CTAN", I presume you mean the USAn node ftp.shsu.edu? As I keep saying, SHSU is a crock, and there's no apparent prospect of it being got to rights. >The distribution is ok on ftp.tex.ac.uk. And hence, presumably, also on ftp.cdrom.com, which is the only CTAN mirror in the USA which mirrors a working CTAN. Please use ftp.cdrom.com in preference to us -- we can't afford to buy transatlantic bandwidth for all you Americans to use our sites in this small island. The MikTeX distribution is installed on CTAN at ftp.dante.de; one presumes it's OK there as well (since we got it from there). From pciccone@borland.com Fri May 17 17:44:16 1996 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 10:22:39 -0700 From: Paolo Ciccone Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Uploading to CTAN (was Tibetan Fonts) Robin Fairbairns wrote: > We regret the problems N Americans (and those who mirrored N American > sites) are suffering, but the matter is entirely out of the control of > those of us who continue to (try to) run CTAN. Excuse me, can somebody explain what's happening to SHSU. Is SHSU dying ? Is there any other CTAN server in N America ? ftp.cdrom.com is quite loaded and difficult to access. Thanks, Paolo -- The opinions expressed here are exclusively my own From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 20 08:09:47 1996 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 13:01:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: Paolo.Ienne@di.epfl.ch, vollmer@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: CTAN Submission: draftcopy-2.8 (fwd) From: Juergen Vollmer Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 12:06:50 +0200 > I have uploaded to `ftp.dante.de' incoming/draftcopy > the following files > THIS-IS-draftcopy-2.8 > draftcopy.doc > draftcopy.ins > Makefile > README.draftcopy > > which replace former revisions of this package. > > Here's a short description: > > It's a LaTeX2e replacement for the original LaTeX209 style file > `draftcopy.sty'. > New additional functionality: > - The word DRAFT is replaced by a language dependend one, > - One can choose on which pages (first, first2, first-n, all) this word should > be printed, etc. > - DRAFT may be printed at the bootom of each page > - works for both: dvips and dvipsone graphics drivers. > - If no options are passed, this new version behaves as the old one (except > that the language dependent word is choosen). > > Changes since 2.7 > - - DRAFT may be printed at the bootom of each page > > I'm looking for volunteers who translate the word DRAFT into the various > languages. Simply send me an email with translations. > > I'm looking for people using different graphic drivers to check the package. Thanks for the contribution. The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/draftcopy as requested. The old version 2.7 has been deleted. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 20 19:46:09 1996 Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:58:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN submission: spanish files -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: Santiago Vila Doncel Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:13:20 +0200 (MET DST) > Dear CTAN mantainers: > > I have placed at > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/spanish > > a file named spanish.zip. > > This is a small set of files about TeX and spanish. > They once were at ftp.eunet.es, but they were deleted. > They belong to Julio Sánchez, but he is always very busy... > > I would suggest first to move current files in spanish directory to a new > subdirectory called `ramon' (i.e. spanish/ramon) (Ram=F3n told me that > he did not know about Julio's patterns when he wrote his sphyph.tex). > > spanish.zip already contains spanish/ in the path, so it should be unzipped > in `language' directory. The files have been installed as requested on ftp.dante.de in language/spanish and will soon be available on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. A (spanish) README was included, which I dutifully add here. The people who might need it will be able to read it ;-) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contenido: - - hyphen/shyphen.sh es el `script' de Julio Sánchez (versiķn 1.2) que crea sphyph.tex - - hyphen/sphyph.tex es el archivo con los patrones de enguionado de Julio Sánchez creados mediante el `script' anterior escribiendo: sphyphen.sh isolatin1 ugly > sphyph.tex (puede ser necesario hacer primero "chmod +x shyphen.sh") - - old/FAQ la vieja lista de preguntas frecuentes sobre el uso de TeX/LaTeX en castellano. Existe una versiķn algo más actualizada en ftp://ftp.unex.es/pub/tex/faq pero está en fase preliminar. - - old/silaba.tex Los patrones de enguionado de Aurion Tecnología, México. - - ispell/* La versiķn preliminar del soporte para castellano de ispell (también de Julio Sánchez). Nota: Todo lo anterior estaba originalmente en ftp://ftp.eunet.es pero fue borrado. Me he limitado a `rescatarlo' para que esté en el CTAN. - - ramon/* Lo que había originalmente en el directorio spanish de CTAN. Santiago Vila Doncel - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMaDc0kbfUueFIgaNAQH3nwQAsER1wH1rqmcaRaui4PnmZX/ar4AMPiWe gU2ceVEq20nZkCQiey9h/x92pRra4funTAVOPlbnO2ib0wGSGcdbkcsZCv1xZwun X273vTIHzRsGynFoeyb9OZp5XUZ4JwwDwhga+azrII+QStOpVZDprQwUc5Yo8sEp YLFUUkF8bOA= =/cZo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue May 21 13:12:31 1996 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 17:03:02 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, eijkhout@jacobi.math.ucla.edu Subject: Re: TeX Ruler In article , Victor Eijkhout wrote: >A long time ago I wrote the following piece of horrendous TeX coding. >At the time I released only dvi and postscript files. Since then, >several people have asked me about it, and to prevent any further >hassle I've decided to post the source. > >Could someone put this on the usual archives? > >I retain the copyright, but you can do distribute this, if you >don't ask money for it. > >Share and enjoy! To optimise people's chances of sharing and enjoying, I've installed the file on CTAN (ftp.tex.ac.uk) in macros/generic/ruler.tex It should propagate to the other CTANs (though as like as not, not SHSU, in the nature of things), and thence to our mirrors. It'll make its way back into N America via ftp.cdrom.com at least. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue May 21 21:22:51 1996 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 02:20:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: cb8@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: CTAN Submission: fix for texed122.zip > From: cb8@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Gerhard Frech) > Date: Tue, 21 May 96 14:27:16 EDT > > I have uploaded fix122b.zip and fix122c.zip. Please delete fix122b.zip > (Iforegot to use binary transfer) and install fix122c.zip in the > systems/os2/texed directory. > > Please do not delete any file out og the texed directory. [ Note: texed122.zip is version 1.22 of a TeX shell for OS/2 which has been installed on CTAN on 30-Apr-96 -rz ] > Thanks > Frank Stippich I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/texed as requested. It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed May 22 12:12:01 1996 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:33:41 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: turtle@diku.dk, swift@bu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: How to \input\verb at the same time? In article <4npjj0$l2s@vidar.diku.dk>, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: >You can use the moreverb.sty, which can be found at CTAN. > /macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/moreverb.sty > >It includes both a \verbatiminput and a \listinginput for program listings. >It even handles tabs correct. The package is documented in the file. FWIW, that package has *today* been replaced by a `supported' moreverb -- see macros/latex/contrib/supported/moreverb/ There's a README file explaining what I've done to the thing; the work is part of another TeX project I'm involved in. I believe I've updated the various links that were hanging around pointing to the old one (I've also updated info/companion.ctan)... (This one installation took me 7 commands -- getting the directory on the archive is only one command ;-) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon May 27 10:10:23 1996 Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:08:28 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Re: PostScript font installer package Alan Hoenig writes: > I have placed the file vfinst.tar.gz in the /incoming directory of > ftp.tex.ac.uk. This file should be placed and unpacked in a directory > fonts/utilities/vfinst. This utility aims to make installation of > PostScript fonts and creation of necessary virtual fonts using > fontinst as painless as possible. [Apologies of CTAN maintainers: > SHSU appears always to deny me access.] SHSU's like that. No-one involved with CTAN is able to do anything about it. Anyway, thanks for getting it to us (through all those problems). I've installed it at ftp.tex.ac.uk as suggested. > From the README file: > > A set of scripts and Perl files comprise vfinst, which aims > to make the installation of families of PostScript outline > fonts `virtually' automatic. When the script is run, the only > thing that the virtual font freak has to supply is a > three-character font family designation. In addition to these modules > and TeX, you'll need fontinst (available on ctan in the area > fonts/utilities) and Perl (not on ctan, but widely available from > other archives and collections of public domain software for every > possible computer platform). > > PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT > INSTALLATIONS. > > Place all the vfinst modules in a special directory. Below this, > create a special work directory. In this special directory, you copy > all the .pfb, .pfa, and .afm files for the fonts you want to install. > Next, run vfinst with a command like `../vfinst' (Unix) or `..\vfinst' > (DOS). Here's what vfinst produces: > > * all .vf and .tfm files in their proper directories; > > * the font files renamed and placed in proper places; > > * automatic update of the psfonts.map file; > > * two test files, for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), > showing how to use the new fonts. > > Here are the fonts you get: > > * for each upright font, the font itself, matching small > caps (mock or real), and a slanted (oblique) font. > > * for each italic font, the font itself, matching small > caps, and an unslanted italic. > > If you have included expert or small caps fonts among your > fonts for installation, vfinst automatically takes them into > account when building the virtual fonts. The oblique and > unslanted italic fonts use the true italic angle for that > font. These fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding, for those who know > what that means. > > I have provided versions of vfinst both for Unix C-shell and > DOS. Fuller documentation and explanations appear in the > file vfinst.tex. > > Please contact me with any questions, queries, bugs, etc. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 27 13:47:20 1996 Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:45:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: BECCARI@polito.it Subject: CTAN submission (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" > Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 18:55:16 GMT+1 > > I just uploaded on dante.de the new version of ithyph.tex > > This is version 4.2 and it should replace version 4.1 in /languages/italian > > Thank you very much Claudio Beccari The file has been installed on ftp.dante.de in /languages/italian/ithyph.tex as requested. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - --- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMancC0bfUueFIgaNAQFahQP/eQbQCp8a8XkKPucSRkSgPx7ZysERwDZ6 H7+1i01NROmTVClP8bM1zMgkb41t32OkTI6tvdrHWW1WNi7sMHLfGxBvoF0B2wvF 1vvXr7O3+PgmoaDH1pkWjRlV8PC21jOtahQ9HKyJwkUUwRNpwQG38Z7VLc9l7/DU W/HmGwPE1ZI= =Q7ge -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon May 27 14:03:50 1996 Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:02:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: taupin@lps.u-psud.fr Subject: Using small caps & bold & slanted (fwd) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > From: taupin@lps.u-psud.fr > Subject: Using small caps & bold & slanted > To: metafont@ens.fr (liste metafont), gut@ens.fr (gut@ens.fr) > Date: Fri, 24 May 96 18:00:23 METDST > > In prevision of the future release of DC1.3 fonts I have built an option > file and a definition file to have all 4 shapes of Small caps. > This is "smallcap.sty" (none exists in the archies) > and "T1cmsc.fd" (none exists in the archies) > > \scshape => \undefined and replaced by \scfamily (SC becomes a family, > rather than a shape). Thus you can write: > > \bf\scfamily\slshape > > to get small caps bold slanted... > > Available at ftp://ftp.lps.u-psud.fr/pub/latex/*.* > > D. Taupin I have installed the files T1cmsc.fd and smallcap.sty on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/other/smallcap. They will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors in due time. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke - -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMangDEbfUueFIgaNAQESTwQAtziLuHeyx68dNDgRLYuzYGFWmPJfKH6U tJoQEeMik3MFDIAI/94Q3BygugvxueM6vHkEEACUxL95YdaxaRW9cMlF71DwlDJN YhjasB+oyQX/LTF/ZCojrC8rubepN142r79Qi/1ZMJmkB3RQOA+xPyJPe4UcXWvX 4eRIUtRtDYQ= =gNUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Tue May 28 13:44:36 1996 Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:34:50 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: loek@math.ncsu.edu.if.there.are.any.problems Subject: Re: mathtime metrics Aloysius Helminck writes: > > I have placed the files mathtime96.tar.gz and metrics.tar.gz > in the /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. > I would recommend that the first file should be placed and unpacked > in a directory fonts/metrics/adobe/mathtime. > I would recommend that the second files should be placed and unpacked > in the directory fonts/metrics. > These files update the virtual mathtime metrics for 8 adobe font > families and includes style files for latex2e and plain tex. > It also includes Palatino Math metrics similar to the mathptm for > the Times family. Done! many thanks. sebastian rahtz for CTAN From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed May 29 09:26:04 1996 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:19:48 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, tugbd-l@irlearn.bitnet, gut@ens.fr, info-tex@shsu.edu, italic-l@irlearn.bitnet, ivritex@taunivm.bitnet, latex-l@dhdurz1.bitnet, metafont@ens.fr, nordictex@kth.se, tex-d-l@vm.gmd.de, tex-euro@dhdurz1.bitnet, tex-l@ubvm.bitnet, tex-nl@nic.surfnet.nl, texhax@tex.ac.uk, texmag-l@uicvm.bitnet, texrox-l@tamvm1.bitnet Subject: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM I am very glad to announce the launch today in Paris of TeX Live, a new CD published by the TeX Users Group, the UK TeX Users Group and GUIenberg (French TeX Users), with help from NTG (Dutch TeX Users) and many individuals from other groups. TeX Live's 649 megabytes contains: - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on Karl Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for: Linux on Intel and m68k platforms; Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo) SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines NeXTStep on Intel platforms - a very large support tree of macros, fonts and documentation arranged according to the TeX Directory Structure layout - the GUTenberg Mac, DOS and Windows distributions (archived) You can use the TeX system by running directly from the CD, installing on your hard disk, or by adding packages to your existing system. This is not a dump of CTAN full of compressed archives. This is a *working* system. To make it useable under Unix, it uses the Rock Ridge extensions to the ISO9660 file system. Ordinary systems can still read it, but will not see the long file names or symbolic links. If you are on any flavour of Unix, BUY this CD! There is no complicated compilation or moving of installed files around, it will just *WORK*. More details, and ordering information, can be found at http://www.tug.org/texlive.html. If you dont have WWW access, mail me or tug@tug.org for details. Cost is around $20 for members of any TeX users group, or $40 for others (the prices vary, depending on postage). All profits from sales go back to fund new versions of the CD, and to TeX-related development projects. Sebastian Rahtz Secretary, TeX Users Group From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed May 29 09:52:28 1996 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:21:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: daly@linpwd.dnet.gwdg.de Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update (fwd) > From: "LINPWD::DALY" > Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:57:18 +0200 > > Hello, > > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > merlin.mbs > README.v38 > > Please copy these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing README.v37 and replacing the existing merlin.mbs > > Thanks, Patrick W. Daly The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de as requested and will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Just to let you know what is is (from the custom-bib README file): : This is the custom-bib package for generating customized BibTeX bibliography : styles from a generic file by means of Frank Mittelbach's docstrip program. Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Wed May 29 10:59:07 1996 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:42:58 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.06 released This announces version 1.06 of feynmf, a LaTeX/Metafont/MetaPost package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and other) diagrams. It will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial at CERN: * http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html Version 1.06 offers new functionality: * Polygon primitives for complex shaped vertices (a special gift to the solid state community :-) * A `rubout' option for nicer propagator crossings in non-planar graphs. I hope not to have broken any legacy applications. Please report any problems. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.06 * New abstraction: polygons. Useful for complex vertices in non-perturbative diagrams. * New commands: \fmfpoly, \fmfpolyn and \fmfrpolyn, implementing polygons. * New option `rubout' for crossing propagators. * Some common typos are detected are appropriate warning messages are issued. * New options `errorstop', `scroll', `nonstop' and `batch' for specifying the desired interactionmode. * Work around an obscure babel/german/feynmf three way destructive interference. Here is an example using the new features: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{feynmf}%%%{feynmp} \unitlength=1mm \begin{document} \begin{fmffile}{newfig} Polygons: \begin{center} \begin{fmfgraph*}(50,30) \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleftn{l}{2}\fmfrightn{r}{2} \fmfrpolyn{shaded,label=$\Gamma$}{G}{4} \fmfpolyn{empty,label=$K$}{K}{4} \fmf{fermion}{l1,G1}\fmf{fermion}{l2,G2} \fmf{fermion}{K1,r1}\fmf{fermion}{K2,r2} \fmf{fermion,left=.5,tension=.5}{G3,K3} \fmf{fermion,right=.5,tension=.5}{G4,K4} \end{fmfgraph*} \end{center} rubout: \begin{center} \begin{fmfgraph}(50,30) \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleft{l}\fmfrightn{r}{2} \fmf{fermion}{r1,g12,g11,v,g21,g22,r2} \fmf{photon}{l,v}\fmfdot{v}\fmffreeze % freeze layout w/o gluons \fmf{gluon,rubout}{g12,g21} % gluon #1, drawn `above' \fmf{gluon}{g11,g22} % gluon #2, drawn normal \end{fmfgraph} \end{center} \end{fmffile} \end{document} /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Thu May 30 02:22:45 1996 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:42:58 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, metafont@ens.fr, feynmf-announce@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.06 released This announces version 1.06 of feynmf, a LaTeX/Metafont/MetaPost package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and other) diagrams. It will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz') or at the tutorial at CERN: * http://wwwcn1.cern.ch/cnls/220/node57.html Version 1.06 offers new functionality: * Polygon primitives for complex shaped vertices (a special gift to the solid state community :-) * A `rubout' option for nicer propagator crossings in non-planar graphs. I hope not to have broken any legacy applications. Please report any problems. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.06 * New abstraction: polygons. Useful for complex vertices in non-perturbative diagrams. * New commands: \fmfpoly, \fmfpolyn and \fmfrpolyn, implementing polygons. * New option `rubout' for crossing propagators. * Some common typos are detected are appropriate warning messages are issued. * New options `errorstop', `scroll', `nonstop' and `batch' for specifying the desired interactionmode. * Work around an obscure babel/german/feynmf three way destructive interference. Here is an example using the new features: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{feynmf}%%%{feynmp} \unitlength=1mm \begin{document} \begin{fmffile}{newfig} Polygons: \begin{center} \begin{fmfgraph*}(50,30) \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleftn{l}{2}\fmfrightn{r}{2} \fmfrpolyn{shaded,label=$\Gamma$}{G}{4} \fmfpolyn{empty,label=$K$}{K}{4} \fmf{fermion}{l1,G1}\fmf{fermion}{l2,G2} \fmf{fermion}{K1,r1}\fmf{fermion}{K2,r2} \fmf{fermion,left=.5,tension=.5}{G3,K3} \fmf{fermion,right=.5,tension=.5}{G4,K4} \end{fmfgraph*} \end{center} rubout: \begin{center} \begin{fmfgraph}(50,30) \fmfpen{thick}\fmfleft{l}\fmfrightn{r}{2} \fmf{fermion}{r1,g12,g11,v,g21,g22,r2} \fmf{photon}{l,v}\fmfdot{v}\fmffreeze % freeze layout w/o gluons \fmf{gluon,rubout}{g12,g21} % gluon #1, drawn `above' \fmf{gluon}{g11,g22} % gluon #2, drawn normal \end{fmfgraph} \end{center} \end{fmffile} \end{document} /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE Wed May 29 23:18:44 1996 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:43:22 +0200 From: Gregor Hoffleit Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM You wrote: > - a ready to run Unix TeX setup, Thomas Esser's teTeX (based on > Karl Berry's Web2c). It has binaries for: > Linux on Intel and m68k platforms; > Irix 5.2, 5.3 on MIPS (SGI Indy/Indigo) > SunOS 4.1.3 on Sun > Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 on SPARC > HPUX 9.01, 10.01 for HP workstations > Digital Unix (OSF/1) 2.0 and 3.2 for DEC Alpha machines > FreeBSD and NetBSD on Intel platforms > Ultrix 4.3, for DEC Decstation machines > AIX 3.2, 4.1.1, for IBM RS6000 machines > NeXTStep on Intel platforms Well, even for NEXTSTEP on Intel, Motorola, SPARC and HP-PA platforms! ;-) Thanks for you efforts! Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit admin MATHInet / contact RhiNO | | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 54-5771 | | INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 54-8312 | | EMAIL: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (NeXTmail, MIME) | From te@informatik.uni-hannover.de Thu May 30 16:48:00 1996 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:43:00 +0200 From: Thomas Esser Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] TeX Live CDROM > Well, even for NEXTSTEP on Intel, Motorola, SPARC and HP-PA > platforms! ;-) te.users(gauss)510: pwd /cdrom/bin te.users(gauss)511: ls README i386-freebsd2.0.5 m68k-linuxoldld rs6000-aix4.1.1 TRANS.TBL i386-freebsd2.1.0 m68k-nextstep3 share alpha-osf2.0 i386-netbsd1.0 mab-nextstep3 sparc-solaris2.4 alpha-osf3.2 i386-netbsd1.1 mips-irix5.2 sparc-solaris2.5 hppa1.1-hpux10.01 i486-linux mips-irix5.3 sparc-sunos4.1.3 hppa1.1-hpux9.01 i486-linuxaout mips-ultrix4.4 i386-bsdi2.0 m68k-linux rs6000-aix3.2 Hm... Da haben wir doch nur: m68k-nextstep3 und mab-nextstep3, oder trifft da noch etwas auf NEXTSTEP zu? Fehlt da was auf der CD? Tschuess, Thomas From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 30 22:23:19 1996 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:34:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > From: "Denis B. Roegel" > Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:40:43 +0200 (MET DST) > > I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file genealogy.tar.gz. > Here is the README: > > -------- > Genealogy symbols in METAFONT > ----------------------------- > > Files in this distribution: > > drgen10.mf % the mf driver file > drgen10.tfm % tfm file for TeX > drgen.mf % the mf character definitions > testgen.tex % a test file > README % this file > > The MF files are a simple compilation of the genealogical symbols > found in the `wasy' and `gen' font. Actually, all I have done was to > add the male and female symbols to Knuth's `gen' font. > Thus, it avoids loading two fonts when you need only genealogical > symbols. > > Hope this is helpful to somebody. The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 00:10:56 1996 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:34:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: roegel@lorraine.loria.fr Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > From: "Denis B. Roegel" > Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 18:40:43 +0200 (MET DST) > > I have just uploaded on ftp.dante.de the file genealogy.tar.gz. > Here is the README: > > -------- > Genealogy symbols in METAFONT > ----------------------------- > > Files in this distribution: > > drgen10.mf % the mf driver file > drgen10.tfm % tfm file for TeX > drgen.mf % the mf character definitions > testgen.tex % a test file > README % this file > > The MF files are a simple compilation of the genealogical symbols > found in the `wasy' and `gen' font. Actually, all I have done was to > add the male and female symbols to Knuth's `gen' font. > Thus, it avoids loading two fonts when you need only genealogical > symbols. > > Hope this is helpful to somebody. The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu May 30 18:41:49 1996 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:55:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Denis B. Roegel Cc: CTAN announcements Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (fwd Denis, > > The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/genealogy. > > ^^^^^^ >Do you really mean `macros' ? I suggested `fonts' which is more appropriate ... Of course they are in fonts/genealogy. It's tool late for me to type correct announcements :-( Sorry, Reinhard -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 03:59:54 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 08:27:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:34:57 +0900 > From: Umeki Hideo > > I have uploaded a LaTeX2e package `geometry' to a directory > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/geometry/. > This package allows \LaTeXe\ users to customize page layout > by an easy and flexible user interface. > For instance, > \usepackage{geometry} > \geometry{body={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=2cm, nohead}. > The previous version of the geometry package was called > pagesize, which can be found in CTAN, but was renamed because > the package is totally rewritten to use the \LaTeXe\ keyval > interface by David Carlisle and to introduce a new algorithm > for determining layout parameters. As a result, the package > provides more flexible user interface and new specification > for page layout while it does not work in \LaTeX209 environment. > > I recommend placing this package in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/. The package has been installed on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry as requested. The old version macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/pagesize.sty has been deleted. The files will be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk overnight and to the CTAN mirrors in due time. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri May 31 20:00:40 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 18:45:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Mr M D Wooding Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Mark Wooding writes: > Yet another release of mdwtools (mdwtools-1.03.tar.gz in /incoming at > ftp.tex.ac.uk) has appeared. It ought to replace the current version > which resides in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mdwtools. > > New bits (from the change history): > > 1.03 * (mdwtab.sty) Completely redone the paragraph-cell handling: > list environments now work properly inside tables (without > funny extra space appearing at the top and bottom). Also > fixed a bug in the newline handling, which ignored negative > interrow space in the \\ command. > > * (syntax.sty) Changed the underscore handling, and some > other bits, to fit in rather better with LaTeX's output > encoding system. It's nastier and hackier inside, but it > works better with things like the DC fonts. Also stopped > re-lowercasing of `~' from escaping and messing everything > up for everyone. Improved underscore appearance by > lowering it some more. > > * (syntax.sty) Replaced some `2's with `\tw@'s. Added a > comment about dvips's inaccurate positioning of rules. > > * (sverb.sty) Made non-* environments build end text from > the name of the current environment, rather than having it > hardcoded. Also stopped `unignore' environments being > a group. > > * (sverb.dtx) Removed some porkies from the documentation. > > * (mdwtab.sty) Fixed some miscellaneous typos. Removed > `\rulefudge' from the table of tweakables, because it > was withdrawn in release 1.02. > > * (cmtt.dtx) New package, for handling the `cmtt' font > better. It introduces a special encoding for the font, > and provides a command which allows you to use all the > characters without the disadvantages of verbatim text. > > * (other changes) Improved distribution building and > testing stuff which you can't see because I'm not > releasing it. > > I'm sort of confident that there won't be an emergency new version this > time. I've installed this stuff as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 19:11:39 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:54:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: ms@dream.hb.north.de Subject: CTAN submission: EverySel 1.00 (fwd) > From: ms@dream.hb.north.de (Martin Schroeder) > Date: Thu, 30 May 96 22:07:55 +0200 > > I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have > Usenet access) to the /incoming of > ftp.dante.de > the file > everyselectfont.zip > containing the version 1.00 of EverySel. > > Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name ("^" ==> case > ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- conversion) > 0 Stored 0 0% 30-05-96 21:52 00000000 EverySelectfont/ > 12719 Defl:X 4053 68% 30-05-96 21:44 47b2b00f EverySelectfont/everysel.dtx > 2376 Defl:X 927 61% 19-05-96 19:06 556ff131 EverySelectfont/everysel.ins > ------ ------ --- ------- > 15095 4980 67% 3 > > It's contents should be stored in macros/latex/contrib/supported/EverySel > > >From EverySel.dtx: > % ==================================================================== > % @LaTeX-style-file{ > % author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > % version = "1.00", > % date = "30 May 1996", > % filename = "everysel.sty", > % address = {Martin Schr\"oder > % Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > % D-28759 Bremen}, > % telephone = "+49-421-628813", > % email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > % codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > % keywords = "LaTeX, NFSS", > % supported = "yes", > % docstring = "LaTeX package which provides hooks into > % \cs{selectfont})." > % } > % ==================================================================== The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/everysel. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri May 31 20:12:23 1996 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:58:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: ms@dream.hb.north.de Subject: CTAN submission: Ragged2e 1.00 (fwd) > From: ms@dream.hb.north.de (Martin Schroeder) > Date: Thu, 30 May 96 22:11:17 +0200 > > I have uploaded (read: have told a friend of mine to upload it -- I only have > Usenet access) to the /incoming of > ftp.dante.de > the file > ragged2e.zip > containing the version 1.00 of Ragged2e. > > Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name ("^" ==> case > ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- conversion) > 0 Stored 0 0% 30-05-96 21:52 00000000 Ragged2e/ > 36196 Defl:X 8761 76% 30-05-96 21:33 b2dc984f Ragged2e/ragged2e.dtx > 2835 Defl:X 1072 62% 27-05-96 14:40 2ba6782e Ragged2e/ragged2e.ins > ------ ------ --- ------- > 39031 9833 75% 3 > > It's contents should be stored in macros/latex/contrib/supported/Ragged2e > > >From Ragged2e.dtx: > %% =================================================================== > %% @LaTeX-style-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "1.00", > %% date = "1996-05-30", > %% filename = "ragged2e.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Friedrich-Humbert-Stra\ss{}e 124 > %% D-28759 Bremen > %% telephone = "+49-421-628813", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (Internet)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "Raggedright", > %% dependences = "everysel", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which defines new commands > %% \Centering, \RaggedLeft, and \RaggedRight > %% and new environments Center, FlushLeft, and > %% FlushRight, which set ragged text and are > %% easily configurable to allow hyphenation." > %% } > %% =================================================================== > > The package raggedright in latex209/contrib should be removed; this package > supersedes it. The files have been installed on ftp.dante.de in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/ragged2e. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. macros/latex209/contrib/raggedright has been deleted as requested. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun 1 19:43:11 1996 Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 20:35:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Subject: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd) > From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE > Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 19:32:03 +0100 > > I have uploaded the zip-archive dc13i.zip to the CTAN site ftp.dante.de. > It unpacks into three subdirectories [.src], [.ready-mf] and [.tfm]. > > Please remove all the files related to release 1.2 from the archive, this > includes those contained in the fd directory; I don't provide own fd files > any longer. > > Yours, J"org Knappen Done as requested. The version 1.3 of the dc fonts is now on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/fonts/dc replacing version 1.2 and will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. [ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ] Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Mon Jun 3 07:25:02 1996 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 20:06:57 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd) Reinhard schrieb: >[ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and >will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ] Note, that this parallel directory contains only tfm files and ps-type1 files, but no longer METAFONT sources, nor are the 1.1 pk files available any longer. --J"org Knappen From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 7 03:39:50 1996 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 23:05:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: rra@cs.stanford.edu Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > From: Russ Allbery > Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 12:07:28 -0700 (PDT) > > I have just uploaded the following files to /incoming on ftp.dante.de: > > s2latex.patch > > A patch against s2latex to port it to ANSI C and clean up the > Makefile. > > dvi2tty.patch > > A patch against dvi2tty to fix a string termination bug which > affects some systems (most notably Linux) and clean up the > Makefile. > > I recommend that these files be installed as: > > /tex-archive/support/s2latex/s2latex.patch > /tex-archive/dviware/dvi2tty/dvi2tty.patch > > respectively. I have installed the files as requested on ftp.dante.de. They will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirror sites. Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 7 00:12:27 1996 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 10:52:41 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Petr Olsak Subject: Re: the Code128 macro (barcodes) Petr Olsak has submitted another set of barcode macros, this time for the Code 128 standard. I have installed them in macros/generic/code128 The README file says: This directory contains the TeX macro code128 for making barcodes in Code 128 standard. (ASCII text on input and kern-rule queue on output). The usage of the macro is commented in the file test128.tex. The simple test is presented in this file too (for plain). Macro works in plain and LateX and other standard macro packages. Files: code128.tex .... The macro, programmer documentation and standard description. test128.tex .... test and user documentation. springer.tex ... Another test. See also the ean directory for implementation of EAN 13 and EAN 8 standard in TeX. Thank you, Petr. The installation will propagate to ftp.dante.de and to CTAN mirrors in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 6 01:47:00 1996 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 11:57:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Subject: Re: Upload: dc-fonts 1.3 (fwd) > [ Note: The obsolete version 1.1 is still there in a parallel directory and > will be removed without further notice if the author agrees. ] The 1.1 directories will *not* be deleted until an upgraded version of the Bakoma fonts (which they contain) is available. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 7 06:45:42 1996 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 14:41:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Subject: CTAN Submission (geometry package revised) (fwd) > From: Umeki Hideo > Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 21:14:22 +0900 > > I have uploaded the *revised* version of the `geometry' package (ver.1.01) > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry/. > > I've fixed bugs around paper setting and added a couple of improvements. > Please replace the package > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. Done. The files are on DANTE and will soon be copied to Cambridge and the CTAN mirrors. > PS. I had tried to upload the package to > ftp.SHSU.edu/incoming/geometry-1.01, but ftp connection was cut again > while putting files. X-< > Some of files in the geometry-1.01 directory are incomplete (with 0 byte). > So please delete them. Please, please, don't put files on SHSU. It's such a lot of extra work for us! Put them on ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de. But anyway, thanks for the subsription. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 6 05:23:20 1996 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 15:38:36 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Cc: M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN contributions Mike Piff writes: > I have contributed macros/latex/contrib/supported/piff/tensor.sty, > a package which allows the user to set tensor-style super and > subscripts with offsets between successive indices, like > > i kl > X > j I have duly installed the file as Mike requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk It will propagate to ftp.dante.de soon, and to various mirrors overnight Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 7 10:41:46 1996 Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 13:50:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN submission (fwd) > From: neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de (Markus Neteler) > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 96 12:13:02 BST > > Dear TeXnicians, > > today I put my new version of the ps4mf-package onto ftp.dante.de in > /incoming/ps4mf-unix-11.tgz > > Please put it into CTAN at /pub/tex/systems/unix/ps4mf > and remove the old version. > > It is a package for using ps-fonts in a very simple way, > I have added information for Latex2e. > > Thank you very much > Markus Neteler > email: neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de I have installed the file on ftp.dante.de as requested. It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Some more information from the file ps4mf.doc: I. DESCRIPTION In order to use Postscript-Type1-fonts for TeX without any special encoding scheme (like dc,ec,nfss) you now can convert your favourite Postscript-font. This font has to be encoded in the "AdobeStandardEncoding-scheme". After conversion into the standard-cm-encoding of TeX you can use the fonts in LaTeX 2.09. If you use LaTeX 2.e you need dc-encoding: this is also possible. This package is based on the ps2mf-package of the authors: Marcel Dings (original idea of the ps2mf-package) and Erik-Jan Vens (new ps2mf). Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 7 23:50:29 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 10:54:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: WinEdit 1.4-a > From: Aleksander Simonic > Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:55:08 -0300 > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > > This is a new release of WinEdit and these files should replace all the > files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEdit 1.4-a is to replace the > obsolete version of WINEDT 1.c (in the same directory). > > > * What is WinEdit? > ================ > > > WinEdit is a state of the art text editor and Shell for Windows 95 > (Windows NT or Windows 3.x). > > WinEdit can be used to edit HUGE text files. The user can open many > files at once and can switch between them using the Window Menu or > "Ctrl+Tab" switch. Opened Documents can be Tiled, Cascaded or arranged > inside the client window in a custom manner (by the mouse). WinEdit > uses a Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and follows or extends > Windows' Standards in every respect. WinEdit supports (LaTeX) Syntax > Highlighting and Input/Output ASCII Code Translation Tables. WinEdit > comes with a comprehensive, Context-Sensitive Help. > > WinEdit Shell can be customized to run with different utilities and is > particularly suitable for writing TeX documents. WinEdit allows the > user to install DOS and Windows Applications and activate them by > using a Menu Command or a Tool Bar Button. Furthermore, WinEdit can > pass currently opened files as parameters, making sure that changes > are automatically saved before the files are compiled. After defining > utilities (such as TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, DVI Driver, Spell Checker), > most of the common tasks while writing a TeX document or a project are > reduced to clicking a Tool Bar Button or selecting a Menu Command. > WinEdit is suitable for writing papers, theses or books, using a > simple but efficient strategy to manage projects. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/support/winedt as requested. They will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke From piet@cs.ruu.nl Thu Jun 6 06:34:10 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:15:32 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan@shsu.edu, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: upload fancyhdr beta I have uploaded the beta version of fancyhdr to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyhdr. Please move it to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr and remove the symbolic link tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fancyheadings. The /latex209/contrib/fancyheadings should remain for the time being. Thanks. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jun 7 11:13:29 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 11:51:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: piet@cs.ruu.nl Subject: upload fancyhdr beta (fwd) > From: Piet van Oostrum > Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:15:32 +0200 > > I have uploaded the beta version of fancyhdr to > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyhdr. Please move it to > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr and remove the symbolic > link tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/fancyheadings. > > The /latex209/contrib/fancyheadings should remain for the time being. >From the fancyhdr README file: This is the beta version of fancyhdr, a replacement for fancyheadings. There are no known bugs, and the only reason that this is not a real release is that I want to make a real .dtx of it, including the minimal documentation. The current documentation is in fancyhdr.tex, but this contains much more material than the fancyhdr doc. When the fancyhdr.dtx is ready, I will rename fancyhdr.tex into something like pagelay.tex to get it more in line with the title (Page Layout in LaTeX). fancyhdr is 99% compatible with fancyheadings. The only incompatibility is that \headrulewidth and \footrulewidth and their \plain.. versions are no longer length parameters, but normal macros (to be changed with \renewcommand rather than \setlength). Although all the other old fancyheadings commands continue to work you are advised to use the new syntax as described in fancyhdr.tex, because this is much easier to use in complicated cases. The old way of doing is no longer described in the manual, except for the simplest use of \lhead etc. I have installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested. It will be copied soon to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 6 22:54:54 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 22:43:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: alex@cs.dal.ca Subject: CTAN (Re-)Submission: winedt > From: Aleksander Simonic > Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:13:31 -0300 > > yesterday (Jun 5) I uploaded the new version of WinEdit to CTAN. > Unfortunately, a transmission error occurred while I was sending the file > from my PC to the host via Kermit. I did not notice the error until today > when one of my users pointed out a problem with the file > > "/tex-archive/support/winedt/winedit.zip". > > The problem is now fixed and I have just uploaded the new version in > "/incoming/winedt" directory. Please replace yesterday's upload with the > new files. I hope the new files will get mirrored on CTAN. The corrected files ar on ftp.dante.de now and will soon be on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. > p.s. A compliment on your expedient processing of new uploads:) Thanks, Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 6 22:54:54 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 22:43:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: alex@cs.dal.ca Subject: CTAN (Re-)Submission: winedt > From: Aleksander Simonic > Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 15:13:31 -0300 > > yesterday (Jun 5) I uploaded the new version of WinEdit to CTAN. > Unfortunately, a transmission error occurred while I was sending the file > from my PC to the host via Kermit. I did not notice the error until today > when one of my users pointed out a problem with the file > > "/tex-archive/support/winedt/winedit.zip". > > The problem is now fixed and I have just uploaded the new version in > "/incoming/winedt" directory. Please replace yesterday's upload with the > new files. I hope the new files will get mirrored on CTAN. The corrected files ar on ftp.dante.de now and will soon be on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. > p.s. A compliment on your expedient processing of new uploads:) Thanks, Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Jun 6 19:15:55 1996 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 23:02:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Subject: addition to dc 1.3 fonts > From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (Joerg Knappen) > Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 17:24:24 +0100 > > Due to an error, I have not submitted the tfm files for the > dc*1095 fonts. The file 1095tfm.zip contains the missing files, to be > unpacked in fonts/dc/tfm On ftp.dante.de, the files have been added to tex-archive/fonts/dc/tfm as requested. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Jun 7 06:53:00 1996 Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 10:42:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) Umeki Hideo writes: > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.02). > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.02.tar.gz. > > Changes from 1.01: > o bugs in resetting parameters and flags are fixed. > o package documentation is revised. > > Please replace the package > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. > > I'm sorry to trouble you for my frequent upgrading. > Hopefully, this version will be stable one... > > Thank you for your work for CTAN maintenance. > --- > Hideo Umeki [TUG member] > (umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp) > (Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp) > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation > tel: +81-44-548-5472 > fax: +81-44-520-5973 > Thanks a lot, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From graham@cs.man.ac.uk Fri Jun 7 10:36:48 1996 Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 11:51:19 -0300 (BST) From: Graham Gough Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum? Graham From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun 8 19:16:12 1996 Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 21:59:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Subject: KOMA-Script-Update > From: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Kohm) > Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 19:17:47 +0200 (CES) > > ich habe gerade eine neue Version von KOMA-Script nach incoming gelegt. > Bitte umkopieren (das war irgendwas mit: /macros/supported/komascript oder > so aehnlich. I have installed the new version of the koma-script package on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script, replacing the old version. BTW, koma-script is a replacement for the article/report/book classes with emphasis on European rules of typography and paper formats as laid down by Jan Tschichold. Thanks for the contribution, Markus! For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun 9 17:36:22 1996 Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 22:24:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: boris@plmsc.psu.edu Subject: EnvLab Package (fwd) > From: Boris Veytsman > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT) > > Dear fiends: I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-) > I've just uploaded envlab.tar.gz to dante. It contains a new package > EnvLab intended for typesetting Envelopes and Labels with LaTeX2e. > The readme file is appended to this message. I suggest installing the > file at macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab Thanks for the contribution. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable system > for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. Includes printing > barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service > rules. > > The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls > documentclass typesets labels on Avery 5332 sheets. A typical user > may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully}) > a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab: > - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined > label sheets emph{or} envelopes. > - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope > sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can > typeset this. > - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to > the United States Postal Service Rules. > - Allows you to include your logo in the return address. > - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing. > - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing. > The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX rule > commands. > > This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is > not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was > only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your > national standards, please contact me with pointers to the > corresponding documents. > > The distribution of this package includes the following files: > - envlab.dtx---fully documented program > - envlab.ins---textsl{DocStrip} instruction module > - elguide.tex (this file)---User Guide > - readme.emph{version_number}---ReadMe file > > To install the package > - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv, > envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. > - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to > your taste. > - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path > - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and > (optional) envlab.dtx. > - Enjoy! > > Boris Veytsman, 1996 (boris@plmsc.psu.edu, > home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris) For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun 9 17:36:22 1996 Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 22:24:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: boris@plmsc.psu.edu Subject: EnvLab Package (fwd) > From: Boris Veytsman > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT) > > Dear fiends: I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-) > I've just uploaded envlab.tar.gz to dante. It contains a new package > EnvLab intended for typesetting Envelopes and Labels with LaTeX2e. > The readme file is appended to this message. I suggest installing the > file at macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab Thanks for the contribution. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable system > for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. Includes printing > barcodes and address formatting according to the US Postal Service > rules. > > The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls > documentclass typesets labels on Avery 5332 sheets. A typical user > may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully}) > a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab: > - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined > label sheets emph{or} envelopes. > - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope > sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can > typeset this. > - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to > the United States Postal Service Rules. > - Allows you to include your logo in the return address. > - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing. > - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing. > The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX rule > commands. > > This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is > not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was > only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your > national standards, please contact me with pointers to the > corresponding documents. > > The distribution of this package includes the following files: > - envlab.dtx---fully documented program > - envlab.ins---textsl{DocStrip} instruction module > - elguide.tex (this file)---User Guide > - readme.emph{version_number}---ReadMe file > > To install the package > - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv, > envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. > - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to > your taste. > - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path > - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and > (optional) envlab.dtx. > - Enjoy! > > Boris Veytsman, 1996 (boris@plmsc.psu.edu, > home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris) For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke From boris@plmsc.psu.edu Sun Jun 9 19:03:35 1996 Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 17:55:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Boris Veytsman Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: EnvLab Package (fwd) On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Reinhard Zierke wrote: > > From: Boris Veytsman > > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 15:41:21 -0400 (EDT) > > > > Dear fiends: > > I hope it's a typo and you meant 'friends' ;-) > Mea culpa With apologies -Boris Home page From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun 10 06:26:09 1996 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:22:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN announcements Cc: Scherer@physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: CTAN Submission: CWEB for Amiga, DOS and Unix > From: Scherer@physik.rwth-aachen.de > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:55:33 +0200 (MET DST) > > Now that the final bug in Silvio Levy's CWEB is fixed, development > of my CWEBBIN extension has also come to an end. To provide the > final and up-to-date version, which is patch level 13, I've > uploaded all source files to > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/cwebbin > > in pre-installed form. There are separate subdirectories 'arexx', > 'bin', 'cwebinputs', 'examples', and 'texinputs', some of them > containing deeper levels 'catalogs' and language-specific > subdirectories. The complete package is also available in the > form of an tar-gzipped archive 'cwebbin.tar.gz' in the main > directory. > > The purpose of CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] is to provide the availability > of Levy/Knuth CWEB on the Commodore Amiga with SAS/C++ 6.56, on > MS/DOS with Borland C++ 3.1, and on UNIX with CC or GCC. In > addition to that, TeX macros and CWEB macros are provided for > German, French, and Italian program documentation on any machine. > Several additional example programs are provided in the 'examples' > subdirectory. > > Several system-dependent extensions are provided with CWEBBIN, > most of them for the Amiga, e.g., automatic localization of the > programs CTANGLE and CWEAVE and an ARexx interface to the SAS/C++ > development system. Of general use is the feature of 'temporary > output files', i.e., CTANGLE, CWEAVE, and WMERGE won't write > directly to the final output file but to intermediate files, > so a user-abort won't destroy prior results. Translated header > files for German and Italian are provided so that CTANGLE and > CWEAVE can be localizated at least 'statically' on non-Amiga > systems. Change files are provided for full ANSI-C compliance > of all programs in the CWEB distribution. > > CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] replaces my former submissions in > > CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwb32p10 > CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cweb34p12 > > These should be deleted. CWEBBIN 3.4 [p13] itself should be > installed at > > CTAN:/web/c_cpp/cwebbin Thanks for the submission. I have deleted the old versions cwb32p10 and cweb34p12 on ftp.dante.de and installed the README file and the compressed tar archive of the new version in web/c_cpp/cwebbin. The changes will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From piet@cs.ruu.nl Mon Jun 10 09:54:39 1996 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:28:20 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) >>>>> Graham Gough (GG) writes: GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum? They complement each other, or better they address completely different issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the geometry package for page-size related issues. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet From piet@cs.ruu.nl Mon Jun 10 10:51:44 1996 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:28:20 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) >>>>> Graham Gough (GG) writes: GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum? They complement each other, or better they address completely different issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the geometry package for page-size related issues. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 22:53:16 1996 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:31:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, Boris Veytsman Subject: Re: Envelopes and Labels update Boris Veytsman writes: > Sorry for an update so soon. I received a letter from a user who could > not extract files from envlab.dtx because he had an older version of > DocStrip. > > I uploaded to dante the file envlab.update.tar.gz. It contains the file > elold.ins that works with DocStrip older than 2.3 and updated versions of > readme.v10 & elguide.tex. Please install them in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab. Please do not delete envlab.ins: > it is intended to be the primary DocStrip module, and elold.ins is just a > substitute for those who cannot update their LaTeX. > > Since no code changes were made, I decided to keep the version number > (v1.0). > > Good luck > > -Boris > > Home page Thanks, I installed the update -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From graham@cs.man.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 05:29:05 1996 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:47:33 -0300 (BST) From: Graham Gough Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) Piet van Oostrum writes: >>>>>> Graham Gough (GG) writes: GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this GG> package v the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum? pvo> They complement each other, or better they address completely different pvo> issues. Yes, I can see that now. My posting was prompted by reading the opening sentence of your abstract This article describes how to customize the page layout of your LaTeX documents, i.e how to change page margings and sizes, This led me to think that there was an overlap which doesn't actually exist. I think other people are likely to be misled by it. Thanks again for fancyheadings Graham From raichle@isle.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Tue Jun 11 23:12:35 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 08:45:24 +0200 From: Bernd Raichle Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded again) Piet van Oostrum writes: : >>>>> Graham Gough (GG) writes: : GG> Can anyone comment on the comparive features/merits of this package v : GG> the new fancyhdr from Piet van Oostrum? : : They complement each other, or better they address completely different : issues. By the way, I will update the fancyhdr doc (called "Page Layout in : LaTeX", the title of the course I gave at EuroTeX'95), to recommend the : geometry package for page-size related issues. `geometry' is a YAPL (*) package!! There are a lots of them and the number is still increasing :-( In the moment I'm using - vmargin if I want a simple YAPL package and - typearea (which is part of the koma-script package) if I want a more powerful YAPL package supporting e.g. the page layout designs covered by Tschichold's article ``Willk\"urfreie Ma\ss{}verh\"altnisse der Buchseite und des Satzspiegels'' (a short english description is in Joachim Schrod's `a4-9.doc', the documentation of a special YAPL package for A4 paper) -bernd (*) YAPL = `yet another page layout' vmargin: CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vmargin.sty koma: CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/ a4-9: CTAN: macros/latex209/contrib/chbars/ ____________________________________________________________________ Bernd Raichle "Le langage est source DANTE e.V., Koordinator `german.sty' de malentendus" email: german@dante.de (A. de Saint-Exupery) From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 06:19:05 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:49:28 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: Antonio Carlos Marques da Silva Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: Re: ftp Antonio Carlos Marques da Silva writes: > I would like to know the procedures to tfp from your > *pip.shsu.edu/tex-archive* > (it seems that an anonymous login doesn't work). the advertised address wasn't pip.shsu.edu at any stage that I've had access to ftp... For a long time, the advertised address (ftp.shsu.edu) translated to pip.shsu.edu, and many people thought it fun to use the translated name. Ho ho ho ... the translation's changed. The moral is: use the advertised name. Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive. finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for a current list of mirrors. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 15:18:58 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:05:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, piet@cs.ruu.nl Subject: Re: upload Piet van Oostrum writes: > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings: > > /anonymous@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings: > total 4 > drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Jun 11 16:38 . > drwxrwxrwx 7 Mr.Ftp server 512 Jun 11 16:38 .. > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 499 Jun 11 16:43 README > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 125 Jun 11 16:44 fancyheadings.new > > Please move the README file to > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings > and fancyheadings.new to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr Done. Thanks. Rainer From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 11 17:38:04 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:05:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: ctan@SHSU.edu, piet@cs.ruu.nl Subject: Re: upload Piet van Oostrum writes: > I have uploaded 2 files to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings: > > /anonymous@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/fancyheadings: > total 4 > drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 512 Jun 11 16:38 . > drwxrwxrwx 7 Mr.Ftp server 512 Jun 11 16:38 .. > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 499 Jun 11 16:43 README > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 125 Jun 11 16:44 fancyheadings.new > > Please move the README file to > tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/fancyheadings > and fancyheadings.new to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr Done. Thanks. Rainer From peta@cim.mcgill.ca Tue Jun 11 20:09:46 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 15:59:24 -0400 From: Peter Whaite Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu, info-tex@SHSU.edu Cc: Robin Fairbairns Subject: Re: ftp Robin Fairbairns said: > > Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost > complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive. Would you care to be more specific? I haven't noticed any problems with my limited mirroring of latex, but I would appreciate knowing where to expect them. I really would prefer not to go to Europe for CTAN. The connections are often painfully slow. > finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu for a current list of mirrors. I wish this list told me which site was being mirrored. Are any of the US sites mirroring directly from Europe? From michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca Tue Jun 11 22:43:17 1996 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 19:23:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Michal Jaegermann Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: ftp > > I wish this list told me which site was being mirrored. Are any of the US > sites mirroring directly from Europe? > ftp.cdrom.com mirrors UK node of CTAN. They do not have 'site index' CTAN style and they will not make zip of a directory (but .tar.gz is ok). Michal From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 12 04:40:27 1996 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:09:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Cc: info-tex@SHSU.edu, Robin Fairbairns , schoepf@uni-mainz.de Subject: Re: ftp Peter Whaite writes: > > Robin Fairbairns said: > > > > Of course, as we keep saying, there are problems (due to almost > > complete absence of management effort there) with SHSU's archive. > > Would you care to be more specific? I haven't noticed any problems with > my limited mirroring of latex, but I would appreciate knowing where to expect > them. SHSU is currently unmanaged, so that there is no person to turn to for problems. Robin and myself can log in to ftp.shsu.edu, but neither of us has the spare time to manage yet another archive site, and sometimes we would need more rights to correct things. For example, some time ago the ftp disk was full, so that no updates could be done. In addition, the ftp server doesn't work if the disk is full, since its wants to write status information. As a stopgap solution, I set up mirrors from ftp.dante.de to ftp.shsu.de for everything except the "tools" tree. Occasionally the disk is filled up again.... -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jun 12 04:42:53 1996 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:13:42 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Cc: reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu Subject: Re: upload The useful info/epslatex.ps file has been updated on CTAN; for a description see below sebastian rahtz > > I have uploaded Version 1.8 of epslatex.ps. This replaces > Version 1.7 (Feb 96) in the /tex-archive/info directory. > > New topics covered by Version 1.8 include > 1) Methods for constructing figures with landscape > orientation in portrait documents > 2) Methods for including the same EPS file multiple > times. This often happens when graphics are > placed in a document's header or footer. > 3) For compressed graphics, using kpsewhich > avoids DVIPS path-searching problems > > Keith > reckdahl@leland.stanford.edu > > > Summary > ------- > epslatex.ps explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript > (EPS) files in LaTeXe documents. > > The graphics and graphicx packages provide commands which > insert, scale, and rotate EPS graphics. The following > EPS-inclusion topics are covered > 1) Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats > (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when > DVIPS is used. Since neither LaTeX nor DVIPS has any > built-in decompression or graphics-conversion > capabilities, that software must be provided by the user. > 2) Since many applications which produce EPS files support only > ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in EPS files to be > replaced with LaTeX symbols or mathematical expressions. > 3) When an EPS graphic is inserted multiple times, the final > PostScript includes multiple copies of the graphics, making > the file large. A smaller final PostScript file results from > defining a PostScript command for the graphics. An example of > inserting an EPS graphic in the page header with the > fancyheadings package is provided. > > Various commands are often used in conjunction with EPS > graphics. The following topics are covered in epslatex.ps > 1) the insertion of graphics in figure environments > allows the graphics to float for better formatting and > allows graphics to be referenced > 2) the lscape and rotating packages provide methods for > producing figures with landscape orientation in a portrait > document > 3) methods for arranging side-by-side graphics. The graphics > can be placed in a single figure, in multiple figures > contained in a single float, or in subfigures. > 4) boxed figures can be created with \fbox or the commands > from the fancybox package. > 5) the figure captions can be placed next to the figure or table, > instead of the conventional above or below placement, > 6) the caption2 package adds flexibility to the caption formatting, > allowing users to modify the style, width, and font of captions. > From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Wed Jun 12 06:43:15 1996 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:16:50 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: forwarded message from Andrew Trevorrow re OzTeX These changedversions are on CTAN sebastian ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- A number of people have reported that Fix VFs is dramatically slower in OzTeX 2.0. It turned out to be quite a nasty little problem to track down and fix. All the gory details can be found in the "changes" file Please get the following files: vf.hqx - a new VF-files folder oztex.hqx - OzTeX 2.0.1 ozdvips.hqx - OzDVIPS 1.0.1 I've also fixed a few other minor problems. I haven't bothered doing a new version of the User Guide yet in case more bugs are found. I think I'll wait a couple of months and then release a version 2.1. ------- end ------- From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Jun 12 16:20:46 1996 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:25:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Subject: Re: CTAN submission Werner Lemberg writes: > I've just uploaded a Vietnamese extension of the cmr fonts to > ftp.tex.ac.uk . > > The package is called vncmr-2.0 and contains METAFONT source files, > .tfm files, and various LaTeX2e and plain TeX files for VISCII encoding. > It's an update of the vncmr package developed by Cuong Nguyen > (cuong@haydn.stanford.edu). > > It should be placed (preferably unpacked) into fonts/vietnamese (or > fonts/vmr ?), perhaps with a link to languages/vietnamese. There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about this package, and Werner finally uploaded a new version 2.1; I have now installed it (unpacked, as requested): The package itself is at fonts/vietnamese/vncmr There's a link to it from language/vietnamese/vncmr (language/vietnamese was plainly never intended to recognise any other way of dealing with vietnamese, so I've not attempted anything `clever' with the link.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk Fri Jun 14 07:02:47 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:39:18 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: hyperref It has been a while since I announced a release of the hyperref package for preserving LaTeX cross-references in hypertext systems, though I have been updating it occasionally. However, I have now decided to clear out my problems directory, and I would like as many users of hyperref as possible to try a new version, and report errors to me. Under pressure from Tanmoy Bhattacharya, I spent some time tracking down problems with RevTeX. and some bibliographical packages, and I hope the whole thing is slightly more robust. The only packages which I suspect will cause problems are those which play with bibliographical citations, including possibly the following: achemso.sty aguplus.cls aguplus.sty chapterbib.sty drftcite.sty natbib.sty prabib.sty I have explicitly supported harvard.sty, and will do natbib when I have time. The rest may languish until/if I have a personal need for them. I expect my next step will be checking everything against Acrobat 3 when I get a copy, and adding support for any new features of that. Sebastian Rahtz ******************************** Hyperref is used to emend cross-referencing commands in LaTeX to produce either \special commands which can be parsed by HyperTeX dvi processors, or embedded pdfmark commands for processing by Acrobat Distiller. Included are: a) (backref) a package by David Carlisle to provide links back from bibliography to the main text; these are hypertext links after using hyperref. b) (nameref) a package to allow reference to the *names* of sections rather than their numbers. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 09:57:17 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (flatten, ltx2x, isostds) Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded a set of files to ftp.tex.ac.uk which I would like > placing in the CTAN. > > The files are: > > 1) flatten.tar.gz --- a program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying > \input and \include files into the root file. > Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided. > > I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /flatten Done as suggested. > 2) ltx2x.tar.gz --- a program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined > characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and > pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands > by SGML tags, or ... > Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided. > The system can be extended simply, but this requires > access to flex and bison (or equivalent). > > I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /ltx2x Done as suggested. > Somehow earlier versions of these programs appeared on CTAN in directory > /support/nistl2x. This directory should be deleted. Done as suggested. (I was relieved to note that nistl2x had you as author... We were mirroring nistl2x from some NIST machine; ISTR we had been having problems with the mirror, which got swept under the carpet with all the torrents of other failed mirrors we experience.) > 3) isostds.tar.gz --- Class and package files for typesetting ISO International > Standard documents. Several standard documents have > been printed by ISO from camera-ready copy prepared > using LaTeX and these files. > > One set of files is for generic ISO typesetting and the > other is an extension set of packages for typesetting > ISO 10303 standards. > > Full documentation on usage is provided. > > I suggest moving this to /macros/latex/contrib/supported. Unpacking > will create /isostds with subdirectories /iso and /iso10303. Done as suggested. All this stuff has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course. It will propagate to those things that are listening sooner or later. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 21:00:18 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (flatten, ltx2x, isostds) Peter Wilson writes: > I have uploaded a set of files to ftp.tex.ac.uk which I would like > placing in the CTAN. > > The files are: > > 1) flatten.tar.gz --- a program to flatten a LaTeX root file by copying > \input and \include files into the root file. > Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided. > > I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /flatten Done as suggested. > 2) ltx2x.tar.gz --- a program to replace LaTeX commands by user-defined > characters. Typical uses are for deTeXing and > pretty-printing, or for replacing LaTeX commands > by SGML tags, or ... > Documentation, C code, man page etc. are provided. > The system can be extended simply, but this requires > access to flex and bison (or equivalent). > > I suggest move this to /support and unpacking will create /ltx2x Done as suggested. > Somehow earlier versions of these programs appeared on CTAN in directory > /support/nistl2x. This directory should be deleted. Done as suggested. (I was relieved to note that nistl2x had you as author... We were mirroring nistl2x from some NIST machine; ISTR we had been having problems with the mirror, which got swept under the carpet with all the torrents of other failed mirrors we experience.) > 3) isostds.tar.gz --- Class and package files for typesetting ISO International > Standard documents. Several standard documents have > been printed by ISO from camera-ready copy prepared > using LaTeX and these files. > > One set of files is for generic ISO typesetting and the > other is an extension set of packages for typesetting > ISO 10303 standards. > > Full documentation on usage is provided. > > I suggest moving this to /macros/latex/contrib/supported. Unpacking > will create /isostds with subdirectories /iso and /iso10303. Done as suggested. All this stuff has been done at ftp.tex.ac.uk, of course. It will propagate to those things that are listening sooner or later. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 22:47:23 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:08:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: ftp.tex.ac.uk transfer statistics, May 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Tue Apr 30 1996 TO Fri May 31 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 367332 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 34120099731 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 11479 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 1066253117 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Tue Apr 30 1996 7812 607921514 6.0 KB/s 2.13 1.78 Wed May 1 1996 5449 780233623 7.4 KB/s 1.48 2.29 Thu May 2 1996 10235 1074948933 4.6 KB/s 2.79 3.15 Fri May 3 1996 10369 916954471 5.1 KB/s 2.82 2.69 Sat May 4 1996 8164 802455556 7.3 KB/s 2.22 2.35 Sun May 5 1996 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Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 56461 15239554555 15.37 44.66 TeX Informational Files 3297 6315552140 0.90 18.51 fonts 161413 5565848488 43.94 16.31 macros 61255 2723941502 16.68 7.98 support 24846 1831557890 6.76 5.37 language 13549 494467718 3.69 1.45 dviware 10441 466437116 2.84 1.37 tools 6896 399120079 1.88 1.17 info 3565 292750866 0.97 0.86 graphics 5843 161429092 1.59 0.47 biblio 6124 135197541 1.67 0.40 web 5590 112404089 1.52 0.33 Informational Files 140 106253867 0.04 0.31 help 1242 85172905 0.34 0.25 usergrps 1926 84411573 0.52 0.25 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 20:55:54 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:04:16 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: mikulik@polycnrs-gre.fr Subject: Re: CTAN submission Petr Mikulik writes: > Archive Name: pmcstex.zip > Program Description: macros and functions for (em){La}TeXing in EPM editor > Author: Petr Mikulik > Email address: mikulik@physics.muni.cz > Operating System/Version: os/2 > Proposed directory for placement: CTAN/systems/os2/pmcstex > Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk, /incoming directory > > RELEASE NOTES: > > I have released the new version of pmCSTeX for EPM: > > This is a macro package that implements many (em)TeX related features into > the powerful EPM editor. The package "pmCSTeX for EPM" > is now available > - on my WWW page: > http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/os2.html > - on the usual OS/2 ftp sites (hobbes.nmsu.edu, ftp.leo.org) > - on CTAN mirrors (directory CTAN/systems/os2) > > Description: > "CS~TeX" menu item is added to the EPM menu in order to provide many > actions for {em}(La)TeXing from within the EPM (texing the document, > texing one paragraph, previewing, searching for errors, bibtexing, > postscript preview etc.). New toolbar is provided as well. Hotkeys > for some (La)TeX commands, including (AMS)LaTeX environments list and > a Greek keyboard. LaTeX2e.ndx file for hypertext link to LaTeX2e commands > is included. I tried to implement the best features of those packages: > CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, pmgraf, emacs. > > New features since the last international beta release: > > - meaning of Alt-Q changed, added Ctrl-Q hot key (quick \begin equations) > - spell-checker discussion > - syntax highlighting discussion > - TeXing works when you ask for it from within .log file > - next_error: oval drawing for ...long line with an error works now better > - sampactn.e replaced according to new EPM 6.03b > - EMTEXOPT keyword added so there is no need to change .cmd files when > working on AMS-LaTeX or memory consuming documents. Usage of \batchmode > command in the Master file not more required. Document being (La)TeXed > on background is iconified > - some minor changes by new users taken into account > - DVIPS keywoard for the Master's first line included I have duly installed a directory systems/os2/pmcstex at ftp.tex.ac.uk It will propagate to other sites that are `listening' some time soon. Thank you, Petr... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 14 18:47:04 1996 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 18:16:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: TeXdraw: fixes for LaTeX2e In article <4prreo$7u3@aldebaran.ee.mcgill.ca>, Peter Kabal wrote: >I have had a number of reports of TeXdraw not working with LaTeX2e. These >problems were fixed some time ago. I suggest that users of TeXdraw notify the >site from which they obtained TeXdraw that an update is available. > >The latest version of TeXdraw (version V2R0) is available for anonymous ftp: > ftp.TSP.EE.McGill.CA in directory pub/texdraw With a little help from my friends, I've installed that version in place of the old one on CTAN. It's at ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will no doubt pop up in all sorts of places not dependent on SHSU really soon. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Sat Jun 15 08:48:37 1996 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:31:27 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: svensson@math.ubc.ca Subject: Anders Svensson: Re: CTAN Submission - kuvio update I have installed this stuff as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk; by now it'll be well on its way around the known universe. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team ------- Forwarded Message Anders Svensson writes: > I've just uploaded the file kuvio-p216.tar.gz to the /incoming > directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > This file contains an update to my diagram package residing in > macros/generic/diagrams/kuvio. It'll unpack into a directory named > kuvio and contains a complete replacement for the files currently > residing on CTAN. The old files can be blown away. ------- End of Forwarded Message From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Sat Jun 15 10:34:31 1996 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:07:08 -0200 (MET DST) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: soft-author@ifcss.org, mule@etl.go.jp, linux-asia@li.org, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, ccnet-l%uga.BITNET@email.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at, trichlor@haydn.stanford.edu Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] I've uploaded version 3.1.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com). It will be soon available in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ======================================================================== Version 3.1.1: new: 20-Jun-1996 \CJKspace switches (inside of a CJK or CJK* environment) from CJK* to CJK mode. \CJKnospace switches from CJK to CJK* mode. support for Vietnamese in Mule. You will need the vncmr-2.1 package for fonts and LaTeX2e support. Latin 5 (ISO 8859-9) for Mule implemented. changed: mule2cjk removed and replaced with cjk-enc.el which defines a new output encoding scheme for Mule (*cjk-coding*). See cjk-enc.doc for details. new protection scheme and changed macro definitions in MULEenc.sty enables kerning for non-CJK languages. This also makes most of the CJK macros significantly smaller. f_name.bat replaced with the latest version. some documentation improvements. \CJKhanja and \CJKhangul now also make sense outside of KS encoding (useful in connection with mule2cjk). errors: f_name.cmd doesn't work. All *.cmd removed. I have first to learn REXX to write such batch files for OS/2. ttf2pk failed if the PK package size of a character was 1024 (the same error is also in the pbm2pk program). hbf2gf didn't initialize mag_x/mag_y and dpi_x/dpi_y correctly (Zhang Zhengyou ). after closing a CJK environment not all characters above 0x80 had been made non-active (a typo). pinyin.sty did not preserve the \a macro (used in tabbing environments). single byte characters didn't work in SJIS encoding (a typo). `:' and `.' do not work as parameter delimiters if these characters are active (Daniel Flipo ). Now ^^ff is used; the old macro ^^ff is now ^^a0; ^^a0 has become ^^80. The old ^^80 macro has been removed since the new version of mule2cjk always use the `global' option of CJK which allows the use of (the new) ^^80 instead. \CJKenc{SJIS} didn't work (Thomas Piekenbrock ). SJISconv.tex didn't run (a senseless line called the nonexistent macro \CJK@other) (Thomas Piekenbrock ). JIS.cap didn't work (a typo). SJIS.cap didn't work either (forgot to edit). From wkim+@pitt.edu Sun Jun 16 06:08:07 1996 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 02:33:56 -0400 From: Wonkoo Kim Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 15:07:08 -0200 > From: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at > Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] > > I've uploaded version 3.1.1 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts > (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com). [snip] > > f_name.bat replaced with the latest version. Thanks. ;-) > f_name.cmd doesn't work. All *.cmd removed. I have first > to learn REXX to write such batch files for OS/2. Dear Werner, I remember that a while ago you asked me for an OS/2 version that emulates f_name.bat. Though I don't use an OS/2 equivalent of f_name.bat when LaTeXing on my OS/2 system, I can give you a short REXX script that may help you. Attached is fnsplit.cmd (named after a C function name ;-) ) that is supposed to be called from some other REXX .cmd. Parsing a file spec can be simply done by OS/2 REXX built-in function filespec(), but the follwing script fnsplit.cmd just adds some extra parsing like body, extension, etc. that built-in filespec() doesn't provide. The usage of fnsplit() is described in the .cmd file. If I recall that the original poster in emTeX list had the problem with '\' when texing under Windows GUI, I think runfor12.zip that I uploaded in the famous OS/2 ftp sites of hobbes.mnsu.edu and ftp-os2.cdrom.com (os2/incoming/ now, os2/unix/ or os2/diskutil/ in future) may help such OS/2 or DOS users. The zip archive contains executables that can run under DOS or OS/2. Even if Windows or OS/2 WPS GUI plugged a full file path when passing file arguments to programs, runfor can run a program after parsing given input file specs. For example, (suppose g:\tmp\text.tex was supplied by Windows) runfor -w g:\tmp\text.tex : latex %f will run 'latex text.tex' after changing working dir to g:\tmp\. runfor g:\tmp\text.tex : latex %uF will run 'latex g:/tmp/text.tex' (without changing dir). I guess these two examples may be enough to solve '\' problem. However, fnsplit.cmd (and f_name.bat) has its own niche. Best wishes, //-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu) ========== fnsplit.cmd =============== /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ fnsplit: /* procedure */ /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Split full or partial path name into drive, path, bodyname, extension. * * Syntax: fnsplit(pathname[, partname]) * * Examples: * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext') == 'd:,\a\b\c\,file.name,.ext' * * With 2nd optional arg, * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'drive') == 'd:' * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'path') == '\a\b\c\' * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'name') == 'file.name.ext' * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'base') == 'd:\a\b\c\file.name' * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'body') == 'file.name' * fnsplit('d:\a\b\c\file.name.ext', 'ext') == '.ext' * * Author: Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu), May 9, 1996 */ file = arg(1) part = translate(arg(2)) if file = '' then return '' drive = filespec('drive', file) path = filespec('path', file) fname = filespec('name', file) m = lastpos('.', fname) if (m = 0) then m = length(fname) + 1 fbody = delstr(fname, m) fext = substr(fname, m) select when part = 'DRIVE' then return drive when part = 'PATH' then return path when part = 'NAME' then return fname when part = 'BODY' then return fbody when part = 'EXT' then return fext when part = 'BASE' then return drive||path||fbody otherwise return drive||','||path||','||fbody||','||fext end /* End of fnsplit.cmd */ From wkim+@pitt.edu Sun Jun 16 15:50:32 1996 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 14:39:20 -0400 From: Wonkoo Kim Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Cc: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 96 02:33:56 -0400 > From: "Wonkoo Kim" > To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu > Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] > > > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 96 15:07:08 -0200 > > From: k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at > > Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] Oops, I'm sorry. The message was intended to send directly to Werner. I didn't notice "Reply-To:" field was set to CTAN-Ann when replied. :-( Regards, //-------------------------------------------------------------------- // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu) From k3079e3@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at Mon Jun 17 02:54:48 1996 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:09:54 -0200 (MET DST) From: Lemberg Werner Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING CJK ver 3.1.1 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] Won-Koo, Thank you _very_ much for your contribution! May I include (possibly adapted) your REXX script in future versions? FYI, I plan to support new HLaTeX fonts in the next release -- perhaps you will give CJK another try :-) Werner From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 17 16:25:13 1996 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:35:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns Reply-To: CTAN-Ann@SHSU.edu To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: csuov@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: (my) footnote package I've just installed (at ftp.tex.ac.uk) a new version of my footnote.dtx -- it'll propagate soon. This deals with numbering the \footnotemark `per page', like \footnote; fortunately this omission seems to have bitten me first... Some keen-eyed TeX people have noticed that Mark Wooding and I both have 2e packages called `footnote' on the archive. Mark has agreed that I might incorporate his work into my package (subject to some spin-doctoring of the GPL his code is subject to), but I've not got around to doing it yet. I apologise for the inconvenience... Robin Fairbairns From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 05:49:58 1996 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:39:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" , ctan@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission: natbib update LINPWD::DALY writes: > I have just placed the following files in incoming/natbib on the DANTE > CTAN server. > > README.1st > README.v63 > natbib.dtx > natbib.ins > plainnat.bst > unsrtnat.bst > abbrvnat.bst > > Could you please place these files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > removing all the existing files there. > > Thank you > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 > Postfach 20 > D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de > Germany > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot, I made the update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, the status of which is unclear). -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 11:13:27 1996 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:39:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: "LINPWD::DALY" , ctan@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN submission: natbib update LINPWD::DALY writes: > I have just placed the following files in incoming/natbib on the DANTE > CTAN server. > > README.1st > README.v63 > natbib.dtx > natbib.ins > plainnat.bst > unsrtnat.bst > abbrvnat.bst > > Could you please place these files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > removing all the existing files there. > > Thank you > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 > Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 > Postfach 20 > D-37189 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linmpi.mpae.gwdg.de > Germany > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot, I made the update on ftp.dante.de, from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, the status of which is unclear). -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 06:17:45 1996 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:04:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se, schoepf@uni-mainz.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante): several packages matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > > Friends, > > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/matsd the following > files > 00readme.acs > 00readme.chs > 00readme.dlq > 00readme.drp > 00readme.flt > 00readme.vrs > achemso.dtx > achemso.ins > chemsym.dtx > chemsym.ins > deleq.dtx > deleq.ins > dropping.dtx > dropping.ins > floatfig.txt > floatflt.dtx > floatflt.ins > vrsion.dtx > vrsion.ins > which are updates of my LaTeX2e packages 'achemso', 'chemsym', > 'deleq', 'floatflt', and 'vrsion' and a new LaTeX2e package > 'dropping', respectively. The today submitted files are intended > to be placed in the /macros/latex/contrib/other tree as follows: > .../achemso/00readme.acs > .../achemso/achemso.dtx > .../achemso/achemso.ins > .../chemsym/00readme.chs > .../chemsym/chemsym.dtx > .../chemsym/chemsym.ins > .../deleq/00readme.dlq > .../deleq/deleq.dtx > .../deleq/deleq.ins > .../dropping/00readme.drp > .../dropping/dropping.dtx > .../dropping/dropping.ins > .../floatflt/00readme.flt > .../floatflt/floatfig.txt > .../floatflt/floatflt.dtx > .../floatflt/floatflt.ins > .../vrsion/00readme.vrs > .../vrsion/vrsion.dtx > .../vrsion/vrsion.ins > > Please delete(/overwrite) all current files in .../macros/latex/contrib > .../supported/achemso > .../supported/chemsym > .../supported/deleq > .../other/floatflt > .../supported/vrsion > The reason I'd like a move from the `supported' to the `other' > subtree is I'm about to change jobs, and I don't know yet how much > `support' I can provide for my packages. > > Express description of the packages and today's upload: > achemso - LaTeX/BibTeX package to format bibliographies according > to The American Chemical Society's standard. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > chemsym - LaTeX package for easier typing of chemical symbols > without worrying about math/nonmath mode. > Today's upload provides a new feature for avoiding > problems when used together with certain other > pacakges, such as `longtable'. > deleq - LaTeX package for flexible numbering of equations, > subequations, and `recycled' equations. Also > provides macros for flexible labelling of `equation- > array-like' environments. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > dropping - An extension of Fred Lauwers's LaTeX 2.09 package > `dropcaps.sty'. dropping automatically takes care > of finding the font name. > This is an entirely new package (at least in this format). > floatflt - LaTeX package for floating text around not-so-wide > figures and tables. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > vrsion - LaTeX package which sets version numbers on .dvi > files without using the .aux file (which may be > corrupted if the LaTeX run fails). > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > > (please feel free to include whatever you like of this mail in any > announcements you'd like.) > > Thank you all in the CTAN and LaTeX3 teams for a wonderful work! > > mats d. > > > mats dahlgren * "Den tid n{r tiden var {r nu f|rliden" * > Royal Institute of Technology * Persephone i * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * _Skuggor och speglingar_ * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * av Lotta Olsson * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd/ Many thanks for your updates, I installed everything as proposed on ftp.dante.de, from where it will eventually propagate to the other archive hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, of course, over which we do not have any control). -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Jun 18 11:19:02 1996 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:04:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: ctan@shsu.edu, matsd@physchem.kth.se, schoepf@uni-mainz.de Subject: Re: CTAN submission (dante): several packages matsd@physchem.kth.se writes: > > Friends, > > I just uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming/matsd the following > files > 00readme.acs > 00readme.chs > 00readme.dlq > 00readme.drp > 00readme.flt > 00readme.vrs > achemso.dtx > achemso.ins > chemsym.dtx > chemsym.ins > deleq.dtx > deleq.ins > dropping.dtx > dropping.ins > floatfig.txt > floatflt.dtx > floatflt.ins > vrsion.dtx > vrsion.ins > which are updates of my LaTeX2e packages 'achemso', 'chemsym', > 'deleq', 'floatflt', and 'vrsion' and a new LaTeX2e package > 'dropping', respectively. The today submitted files are intended > to be placed in the /macros/latex/contrib/other tree as follows: > .../achemso/00readme.acs > .../achemso/achemso.dtx > .../achemso/achemso.ins > .../chemsym/00readme.chs > .../chemsym/chemsym.dtx > .../chemsym/chemsym.ins > .../deleq/00readme.dlq > .../deleq/deleq.dtx > .../deleq/deleq.ins > .../dropping/00readme.drp > .../dropping/dropping.dtx > .../dropping/dropping.ins > .../floatflt/00readme.flt > .../floatflt/floatfig.txt > .../floatflt/floatflt.dtx > .../floatflt/floatflt.ins > .../vrsion/00readme.vrs > .../vrsion/vrsion.dtx > .../vrsion/vrsion.ins > > Please delete(/overwrite) all current files in .../macros/latex/contrib > .../supported/achemso > .../supported/chemsym > .../supported/deleq > .../other/floatflt > .../supported/vrsion > The reason I'd like a move from the `supported' to the `other' > subtree is I'm about to change jobs, and I don't know yet how much > `support' I can provide for my packages. > > Express description of the packages and today's upload: > achemso - LaTeX/BibTeX package to format bibliographies according > to The American Chemical Society's standard. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > chemsym - LaTeX package for easier typing of chemical symbols > without worrying about math/nonmath mode. > Today's upload provides a new feature for avoiding > problems when used together with certain other > pacakges, such as `longtable'. > deleq - LaTeX package for flexible numbering of equations, > subequations, and `recycled' equations. Also > provides macros for flexible labelling of `equation- > array-like' environments. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > dropping - An extension of Fred Lauwers's LaTeX 2.09 package > `dropcaps.sty'. dropping automatically takes care > of finding the font name. > This is an entirely new package (at least in this format). > floatflt - LaTeX package for floating text around not-so-wide > figures and tables. > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > vrsion - LaTeX package which sets version numbers on .dvi > files without using the .aux file (which may be > corrupted if the LaTeX run fails). > Today's upload only affects the documentation. > > (please feel free to include whatever you like of this mail in any > announcements you'd like.) > > Thank you all in the CTAN and LaTeX3 teams for a wonderful work! > > mats d. > > > mats dahlgren * "Den tid n{r tiden var {r nu f|rliden" * > Royal Institute of Technology * Persephone i * > Lab. for Chem. Surface Science * _Skuggor och speglingar_ * > S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden * av Lotta Olsson * > > Ph: +46-8-790 8596 Fx: +46-8-790 8207 > http://lupus.physchem.kth.se/~matsd/ Many thanks for your updates, I installed everything as proposed on ftp.dante.de, from where it will eventually propagate to the other archive hosts (except ftp.shsu.edu, of course, over which we do not have any control). -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 06:11:44 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:04:10 +0100 From: David Carlisle To: latex-l@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, latex-2e@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu Subject: June LaTeX release. The LaTeX3 project is pleased to announce the June 1996 LaTeX release. The `base' `tools' `graphics' and `mfnfss' distributions have all been updated. The files were updated at yesterday (19th June) at ftp.dante.de and overnight at ftp.tex.ac.uk. It may take a day or so for the update to propagate to all the ctan mirrors. As usual a one page `newsletter', ltnews05.tex, accompanies the release and describes the main updates. David From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 06:32:10 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:20:52 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Keith Reckdahl Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: epslatex.ps upload Keith Reckdahl writes: > I have uploaded Version 1.8b of epslatex.ps into the > /incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. This replaces > Version 1.8 (which I released last week) in the /info > directory. This version fixes some typos and uses > the new fancyhdr package instead of the old > fancyheadings package. I have installed the new version here at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 07:59:37 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:49:10 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: David Carlisle Cc: CTAN-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: test longtable release withdrawn David Carlisle writes: > The test release 4.02 of the longtable package for multi-page tables > has been removed from macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle > as it is superseded by the official release of longtable 4.04 > which was made as part of the June 1996 LaTeX `tools' distribution. > > longtable version 4.x incorporates an improved algorithm contributed > by David Kastrup. I have performed the appropriate manipulations of the CTAN directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk; those changes should propagate overnight. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 09:08:36 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:13:01 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node As most people will be aware, what remains of the CTAN team (in the UK and Germany) has been struggling for some time to maintain ftp.shsu.edu as a CTAN node. In the last few weeks, the machine on which the archive operates has run out of disc space, has increasingly been unable to accept ftp connections or to perform simple commands such as `dir' on established connections, and finally, now, has ceased to accept the CTAN management commands that we send it. We have reluctantly, therefore, concluded that we can no longer continue to claim that ftp.shsu.edu is part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). The CTAN mailing lists (ctan@shsu.edu and ctan-ann@shsu.edu) will continue to be supported by SHSU, at least for the time being. We are painfully aware that the demise of SHSU leaves the North American continent without a CTAN node. We are urgently seeking potential CTAN sites in North America, and have had a some responses but no firm offers to start an archive immediately. Offers to host a new North American CTAN node, or suggestions for corporate support for machines for some of our existing offers are extremely welcome: please either reply to this message, or mail to the list ctan@shsu.edu At present, there is only one CTAN mirror in North America that we know to be a copy of one of the remaining CTANs (ftp.cdrom.com). Mirror managers whose site mirrors ftp.shsu.edu are invited to contact the mailing list ctan@shsu.edu as soon as possible, so that alternative arrangements can be made. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Jun 20 16:58:16 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:20:46 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Kees van der Laan Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: BLUe files refreshed Kees van der Laan writes: > I have uploaded to tex.ac.uk a renewal of BLUe's format system: > blue.tex, tools.dat, pic.dat, fmt.dat, lit.dat. > > Later this week I'll submit the paradigm series of 10 articles, > explaining paradigms especially what has been used in BLUe's format. > > I also intend to submit before leaving for Dubna the new files for > Publishing with TeX user's guide. > > The directory now is blue.version96. I have installed these files to replace those in macros/blu at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Thu Jun 20 15:32:12 1996 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:28:04 +0200 From: Kees van der Laan To: Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk, cgl@rc.service.rug.nl Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: BLUe files refreshed Thank you, professional to feedback, Best wishes, ---Kees--- From mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Fri Jun 21 10:21:46 1996 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:11:22 +0200 From: Eberhard Mattes To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, info-tex@shsu.edu, emtex-user@physik.tu-berlin.de Subject: emTeX update I've refreshed emTeX with the June 1996 version of LaTeX. Moreover, I've updated the DC fonts (10.95pt TFM files and dxbase.mf), mf4b.zip (mf4b.rem had a small error), and tex4b.zip (new version of plain.tex). The following files have been replaced on ftp.dante.de: /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex: CHANGES.ENG CHANGES.GER DISKETTE.DOC INSTALL.ENG INSTALL.GER QUICK.ENG QUICK.GER README.ENG README.GER first.zip fontdc.zip l2base.zip l2input.zip l2tools.zip mf4b.zip tex4b.zip /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex/betatest: README.INS install.dat install.exe install.ovl The update should be available on ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.cdrom.com soon. Eberhard Mattes From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sat Jun 22 03:42:26 1996 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:16:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: CTAN announcements Cc: turtle@diku.dk Subject: CTAN Submission: bbding > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:02:44 +0200 > From: Peter Møller Neergaard > > I have just uploaded bbding.zip to ftp.dante.de. It is a update of the > bbding-package, where the author of the metafont source is given full > credit. The package is already placed in tex-archive/fonts/bbding I have installed the update as requested. It will soon spread to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the contribution. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 54715-295/276 Fax: -241 ===> Neue Telefonnummer ab 28. Juni: Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Jun 25 16:20:18 1996 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:21:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node In article , I wrote: >[...] >We have reluctantly, therefore, concluded that we can no longer >continue to claim that ftp.shsu.edu is part of the Comprehensive TeX >Archive Network (CTAN). Among other things that SHSU can no longer be called on to do reliably is finger ctan_us for the current set of CTAN mirrors. The file that lists mirrors is maintained here; we have therefore set up the alternative arrangement: finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk now returns (pretty much up-to-date) information about mirrors. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jun 26 05:14:10 1996 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 09:47:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: ctan-ann@SHSU.edu Cc: Robin Fairbairns , schoepf@uni-mainz.de Subject: Re: Demise of SHSU as a CTAN node Robin Fairbairns writes: > Among other things that SHSU can no longer be called on to do reliably > is finger ctan_us for the current set of CTAN mirrors. The file that > lists mirrors is maintained here; we have therefore set up the > alternative arrangement: > > finger ctan@ftp.tex.ac.uk > > now returns (pretty much up-to-date) information about mirrors. The same is now true for finger ctan@ftp.dante.de For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Jun 27 05:26:44 1996 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:20:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: "LINPWD::DALY" Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Update to some natbib support files LINPWD::DALY writes: > I have just placed the following files in /incoming/natbib on ftp.dante.de > > abbrvnat.bst > plainnat.bst > unsrtnat.bst > > These are updates to files of the same name in contrib/supported/natbib > > Could you please copy them to that directory? Thank you. Thanks, I made the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 1 04:27:51 1996 Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 09:17:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: CTAN announcements Subject: CTAN Submission: altfont, psfont (fwd) > From: Sebastian_Kirsch@kl.maus.de (Sebastian Kirsch) > Date: Sun, 30 Jun 96 20:47:00 +0200 > > I have uploaded the files altfont.dtx, altfont.ins, psfont.dtx and > psfont.ins to the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de. > > psfont.dtx is intended as a replacement for psfonts.dtx of psnfss. It uses > one file for redefining the all default fonts instead of one file for each > font. It also contains all parts of psfonts.dtx which are not covered by > this general concept, ie. the pifonts, mathptm and two .fd-files for Adobe > Symbol and Adobe Zapf Dingbats. This file is specific to PostScript fonts. > The package works with a style file psfont.sty and a configuration file > psfont.cfg. > > allfont.dtx uses the same concepts as psfont.dtx, but is written in a more > general way. It can be used with any fonts which are to be used as default > fonts. It is more powerful than psfont.dtx, but does not contain anything > PostScript specific. It can be used as a replacement for some parts of > both psnfss and mfnfss. > > Both files require LaTeX2e. I have installed both packages in macros/latex/contrib/supported/altfont Thanks for the submission. For the CTAN team, Reinhard Zierke -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 2 08:53:26 1996 Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 08:44:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: CTAN announcements Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De, bullestock@dk-online.dk Subject: CTAN Submission: latex2e_info.zip (fwd) > From: Rolf Niepraschk > Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 12:00:42 EDT > > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file latex2e_info.zip. > It contains the following files > > LATEX2E.INF > README_INF.txt > README_html.txt > latex2e.html > latex2e_toc.html > > README_INF.txt: > The file LATEX2E.INF is a LaTeX reference in the OS/2 hypertext format > based on the version 1.6 of latex2e.texi > (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo) and is created with the program > texi2ipf (Marcus Groeber '93). > > README_html.txt > The files latex2e.html and latex2e_toc.html based on the version 1.6 of > latex2e.texi (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo) > created with texi2html (version 1.44 11/20/95 Written by Lionel Cons). > > The files should be moved to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo (the > place of the original source). > > Rolf Niepraschk I have added the files to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo on ftp.dante.de. They will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jul 3 20:18:33 1996 Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 18:46:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Cc: ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de, ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: Upload: dcfonts 1.3 Patchlevel 2 TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes: > I have just uploaded dc fonts 1.3, Patchlevel 2. > > The updated files are: > > dxbase.mf, dc-chg.txt, > > and there is a new file 00bugs.txt with `known' bugs. > > The major bug fix contained in this patchlevel is the handling of modes > like nechi, which are in part defined by using other modes. Thanks to > Andreas Schwab for providing the necessary code. > > --J"org Knappen. Thanks, I installed the update. -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Jul 5 04:12:42 1996 Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 08:48:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: matsd@omega.physchem.kth.se Cc: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: Re: CTAN upload at Dante node (chemsym & vrsion updates) > Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 21:46:25 EDT > From: "matsd@physchem.kth.se" > > A short while ago, I placed on the Dante CTAN server the files > /incoming/matsd/chemsym.dtx > /incoming/matsd/chemsym.ins > /incoming/matsd/vrsion.dtx > which are to replace the current files > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/chemsym/chemsym.dtx > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/chemsym/chemsym.ins > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/vrsion/vrsion.dtx > respectively. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. > Files' features: > * chemsym. is an upgrade of the chemsym package for > typing chemical symbols in LaTeX. The upgrade consists of > - addition of -OH, -COOH, and -CH groups; > - inclusion of code for type-setting the Periodic Table (with > atomic masses). > * vrsion.dtx is a bug fix. Previous versions of the vrsion > package (which assigns version numbers to .dvi files) were not > compatible with the Koma-Script package, which this version seems > to be. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jul 7 06:13:23 1996 Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 11:11:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Cc: fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > From: Felix Braun > Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:10:36 +0200 (MET DST) > > I just uploaded following files to ftp.dante.de: > > incoming/jura/jura.dtx > incoming/jura/jura.ins > > It is a documentclass for german law-students. These files are the updated > version for the class which is already on the CTAN. They should replace > these in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/ I have installed the files as requested. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Jul 7 09:14:20 1996 Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 14:11:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: CTAN announcements Cc: hahn@geographie.uni-kiel.de Subject: CTAN submission (fwd) > From: hahn@geographie.uni-kiel.de > Date: Tue, 02 Jul 96 12:09:07 +0100 > > I just uploaded a file "TeX-Math.zip" to ftp://ftp.dante.incoming. > > The file contains a summary of TeX-commands used to create mathematical > formulae (and certain other special characters). It can be viewed on any > machine that runs OS/2. > > IMO the best place to put such a file is somewhere below > /pub/tex/systems/os2, though I don't find anything that is appropriate for > such a general documentation file. Maybe a new doc/ directory would help. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de in systems/os2/doc/TeX-Math as proposed. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Jul 8 12:22:16 1996 Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 17:18:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: Reinhard Zierke To: CTAN announcements Cc: niepraschk@ChbRB.Berlin.PTB.De Subject: CTAN Submission: latex2e.html (update) > From: Rolf Niepraschk > Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 14:45:39 EDT > > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming the file latex2e_html.zip. > It contains the following files > > README_html.txt > latex2e.html > > README_html.txt: > The files latex2e.html and latex2e_toc.html based on the version 1.6 of > latex2e.texi (/tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo) > created with texi2html (version 1.50 05/20/96 Written by Lionel Cons). > > latex2e.html is converted with an updated version of texi2html and has (I hope) > less bugs. The files should be moved to tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo > (the place of the original source). Please remove the file > /tex-archive/info/latex2e-help-texinfo/latex2e_toc.html > The information from latex2e_toc.html is now included in latex2e.html. I have replaced the files on ftp.dante.de with the new versions. By the way, your files are really brand new - they came straight from the future :-) -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftpmaint server 341 Jul 9 1996 README_html.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftpmaint server 162741 Jul 9 1996 latex2e.html Cheers, Reinhard -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 12 02:53:38 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:36:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu, Benjamin Bayart Subject: Re: multilingual TeX for Linux Benjamin Bayart writes: > This <> is a French manual describing a lot > of packages for LaTeX. This release of the manual (december 1995) is, > from now, available at ESIEE since the end of january is now on any > CTAN hosts. > > The LaTeX sources of this document (particularly the preamble of the > document, which show *how* to include all those packages in the > same document) will also be released soon. > > This PostScript document is compiled for A4 paper at 300dpi, since this is the > most common paper format in France. An letter-size version will be released > at the same time as the sources. > > In French: > > Le <> que certains utilisateurs francophones > connaissent deja fait enfin son apparition sur les sites CTAN; ce manuel > decrit un grand nombre de packages pour LaTeX. La version actuelle (celle > de decembre 95) est la meme que celle qui a ete disponible sur le site > ESIEE depuis fin janvier. > > Les sources LaTeX du document seront mis au meme endroit que la version > PostScript des que possible, tout particulierement le preambule du > document qui montre comment on peut fair tenir autant de packages > dans un seul document. > > Le fichiers PostScript est un document A4 a 300dpi, puisque c'est le plus > frequent en France. Une version en format 11 pouces sera disponible en > meme temps que les sources. I have installed this file (pending the publication of the sources) as info/JoliManuelPourLaTeX.ps.gz, with an alternative name JMPL.ps.gz for ordinary human beings with ordinary fingers. The `long name' will show up in quote site index Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Jul 11 16:06:43 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 20:48:01 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ Patrick Groenen writes: > > On behalf of Erik Meijer I submit the APACITE style files to CTAN, that > follow closely the APA style citation. The files are uploaded to > ftp.dante.de in the incoming directory under subdirectory 'apacite'. I > recommend to place this directory in > > /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ > > (a link to this directory could be placed in > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other ) Thanks, I installed the files as proposed. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf > Below you'll find a description of the files that were uploaded. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Patrick Groenen > Department of Data Theory, Leiden University, > P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands > phone : (~31) 71 5273826 > fax : (~31) 71 5273865 > e-mail: groenen@ruls30.fsw.leidenuniv.nl > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > README.APA: short description of the APACITE distribution > > author: Erik Meijer (Meijer@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl) > > contents of the APACITE distribution: > > apacite.bst -> BibTeX style file for apa citations and > reference list > apacite.sty -> LaTeX2e package for apa citation and > reference list. To be used in conjunction > with apacite.bst > apacite.tex -> documentation of the apacite.bst/apacite.sty > bibstyle and package > readme.apa -> this file, short description of the > apacite bibstyle/package > testapa.bib -> BibTeX database with APA manual example > references > testapa.tex -> LaTeX2e document that cites all the examples > from the testapa.bib database > > > > The apacite package and bibstyle are the zillionth attempt > at capturing the requirements of the American Psychological > Association concerning citations and reference list. It was > written because the theapa package and bibstyle I was using, > which seemed to me the best available, turned out to be > far from good enough to me. The apacite package and bibstyle > will not handle every possible citation correctly, but more > usual ones are all handled correctly (I hope...). To support > this claim (and to show that a lot of "tricky" references > can also be handled correctly), and to show how some problematic > references can be entered in a .bib file, two test documents > are provided: testapa.tex and testapa.bib. Just LaTeX the > former, BibTeX the latter, and LaTeX the former twice to test > the apacite package and bibstyle. > > The documentation of the apacite bibstyle/package can be obtained > by LaTeXing the file apacite.tex. > > > If you have a problem with the package/bibstyle that is not > described in the documentation, please locate it as > specifically as possible and E-Mail me a short but comprehensive > description of the problem and the pieces of the .tex and .bib > files that seem to be invoking the problem. If I have time, > I will have a look and answer (and, I hope, solve the problem). > > Good luck with it! > > Erik Meijer (Meijer@rulfsw.LeidenUniv.nl) > From protopap@BEKAS.COG.BROWN.EDU Thu Jul 11 17:45:58 1996 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:32:41 -0400 From: Thanassi Protopapas To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission /pub/tex/biblio/bibtex/contrib/ Dear Erik: I have recently submitted to CTAN my apa.cls package wich is based on the theapa.sty and theapa.bst and can be used to create APA-style manuscripts ready for submission, APA journal-like proofs for distribution, and regular LaTeX-like documents for draft word etc. Although my TeX knowledgde can be described as severely deficient I have been using this package for quite a while and still think it is a very useful combination. However, my BiBTeX knowledge is about zero, so the alterations to theapa.bst that I have made are minor and most likely will misformat some kinds of references. If you think it is a worthy endeavour, perhaps we could combine the two packages, yours being particularly strong in the referencing aspect and mine, I believe, versatile and useful in the document-look aspect. I would be willing to put some work into tidying up the code and perhaps working some extra features into the apa.cls class. It is about time there was a definitive apa format class to be distributed and supported for all the poor researchers who still have to conform to requirements prescribed by people who haven't heard of computers yet (not to mention their aesthetics). If you could get a couple more people interested, that would be even better. Sincerely, Thanassi Protopapas Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences Brown University protopap@cog.brown.edu PS. My package is at /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/apa and also at my own site, ftp://bekas.cog.brown.edu/pub/latex/ From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Jul 13 14:09:15 1996 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:03:40 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk Christopher Rath has provided a new release of his songbook macros, and I have installed them at ftp.tex.ac.uk; they'll migrate to Dante and to the mirrors soon. The new macros are now to be found in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/songbook; the old (2.09) version at macros/latex209/contrib/songbook has been deleted. Here's a brief extract from the release notes: * this package is now distributed under the terms of the Artistic license; the same license PERL is distributed under * style now works properly with LaTeX2e---and is no longer usable with earlier versions of LaTeX---although the style has not been completely migrated to LaTeX2e * new \SBSection environment, to be used to divide songs into pieces other than verses and choruses * automatic generation of an index of songs, by key * new \CBPageBrk macro * new \ChordBk & \WordBk status variables * user contributed code now distributed with this package * new SongBook Style home page (see below for URL) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 16 04:56:14 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:32:15 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Envelopes & Labels, version 1.1 Boris Veytsman writes: > Dear friends: > > I've just uploaded the file envlab.tar to dante. It contains the package > envlab, version 1.1. Please delete the old version installed at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab and install the new one. > > I append the readme file to this msg. > > Many thanks. > > Good luck > > -Boris > > Home page Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf ---description follows --- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Envelopes and Labels > LaTeX2e package > Version 1.1 > > Boris Veytsman > boris@plmsc.psu.edu > home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris > > July 15, 1996 > > > This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable > system for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. It > includes printing of barcodes and address formatting according to > the US Postal Service rules. > > The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls > document class typesets labels on Avery 5352 sheets. A typical user > may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully}) > a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab: > - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined > label sheets or envelopes. > - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope > sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can > typeset this. > - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to > the United States Postal Service Rules. > - Allows you to include your logo in the return address. > - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing. > - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing. > The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX \rule > commands. > > This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is > not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was > only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your > national standards, please contact me with pointers to the > corresponding documents. > > The distribution of this package includes the following files: > - envlab.dtx---fully documented program > - envlab.ins---DocStrip instruction module > - elold.ins---DocStrip instruction module for older versions of > DocStrip > - elguide.tex---User Guide > - readme.version_number---Read Me file > > To install the package > - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv, > envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. NOTE: If your version of DocStrip is older > than 2.3, use elold.ins instead of envlab.ins. > - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to > your taste. > - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search path > - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and > (optional) envlab.drv. > - Enjoy! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's new in version 1.1 > > - Bug fixes, including correcting the nasty typos in default options & > elold.ins. > - New options controlling the printing of return addresses. > - \AtBeginLabels now behaves like \AtBeginDocument and \AtBeginDvi: the > changes are cumulative. > - New hook \AtBeginLabelPage. > - New command and options controlling switching the printer to manual feed > mode while printing envelopes and labels (thanks to William Slough, Eastern > Illinois University). > - New command \FirstLabels controlling offsets for the labels. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 16 05:19:49 1996 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:35:59 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: New Version of Mxedruli (Georgian Font) Johannes Heinecke writes: > Dear CTAN Administrators, > > I have just uploaded a new version of my Mxedruli (Georgian) font > to > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/mxed-2.4.tar.gz > Please use this package to replace the old one in > /pub/tex/fonts/georgian/mxedruli > which becomes obsolete now. Apart from some minor changes > I added a italics version of the fonts. The stylefile > for LaTeX (including NFSS2) and the documentation has > also been updated. > > Best Wishes > > Johannes Heinecke > Computerlinguistik > Humboldt-Universit"at zu Berlin > heinecke@compling.hu-berlin.de Thanks, I installed the upgrade. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 17 05:38:11 1996 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:23:22 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Vasantha Saparamadu writes: > I have made the following submission to CTAN: > > (a) Site uploaded to: > > ftp.dante.de in the directory /incoming/sinhala_tex > > (b) File names: > > README.sinhala_tex > sinhala_tex.2.1.tar.gz > > (c) Overview: > > sinhala_tex is a package of Metafont fonts and a preprocessor > suitable for writing Sinhala script using TeX or LaTeX. > > (d) Where files should be placed: > > In a directory tex-archive/language/sinhala (which does not > exist currently) Thanks, I installed the files as requested. I did *not* unpack the archive. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jul 17 10:15:28 1996 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:06:37 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded) Hideo Umeki writes: > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.03) > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.03.tar.gz. > > Changes from 1.02: > o the calc package supported > (Piet van Oostrum pointed out the bug. Thanks.) > o package documentation revised. > > Please replace the package > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. > > Thank you for your work for CTAN maintenance. > > --- > Hideo Umeki [TUG member] > (umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp) > (Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp) > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation > tel: +81-44-548-5472 > fax: +81-44-520-5973 Thank you, I installed the update as requested For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at Thu Jul 18 04:41:08 1996 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:55:58 +0200 (MSZ) From: Werner LEMBERG To: ctan-ann@shsu.edu Subject: vncmr-2.2 (Vietnamese) I've uploaded a new version of vncmr fonts. This package will be soon available at the CTAN hosts in language/vietnamese/vncmr. Werner Here the changes: vncmr 2.2: released 15-Jul-1996 Changes: All fonts are now real, i.e. vncmr10.mf et al. do exist. This greatly simplifies the handling of vncmr fonts since a special treatment is no longer necessary in MakeTeXPK etc. Directory structure changed to be TDS compliant. Bug fixes: ET5enc.def: due to a bug in LaTeX2e \DeclareTextComposite{...}{...}{...}{0} always fails. The problematic definition has been replaced with a workaround. (Van Hanh Nguyen ) Driver files roman.mf etc. renamed to vnroman.mf etc. to preserve Knuth's copyright. capital O and U characters (with all sorts of accents) had a height of vnx_height# instead of vncap_height#. (Joerg Knappen) === end of CHANGES === From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 19 11:25:29 1996 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:13:05 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: problems with cm fonts -- action requested by knuth > Robin Fairbairns wrote: > > I made a comment yesterday (possibly in private mail to Barbara) about > > Art's cmttss stuff. This was in the context of a complaint from Don (of which there has been discussion in many forums) about the existence of illegal versions (i.e., ones contravening Don's copyright) of the cm fonts in some places. > In accordance with a suggestion of Don Knuth, I would like to please > retract the cmttss distribution from CTAN. (I will prepare it in a > different form for later distribution.) FWIW, I believe that Art's version was so distributed as to avoid falling foul of the copyright. However, as has become clear, it has nevertheless caused hassle, and Art's action is appreciated. I have deleted the fonts/cm/cmttss directory here, and it will disappear from dante and the mirrors in due course. Robin Fairbairns From te@informatik.uni-hannover.de Fri Jul 19 10:58:03 1996 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:33:35 +0200 From: Thomas Esser To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: teTeX-0.3.4 Some notes before you read the announce below: - this release is not yet based on the new web2c-7 which is still in pretest state - an update for teTeX-0.3.3 to 0.3.4 will a available in about one week - before you download from a mirror, make sure to get the latest release: There should be a file called RELEASE-0.3.4 which dates from 19.07.1996. =========================================================================== This is the announce of the teTeX-0.3.4, a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. =========================================================================== The distribution is available from sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /pub/comp/tex/teTeX/distrib Direct mirrors are: ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/tex/teTeX/distrib The first site is a CTAN site which is mirrored on many other sites in the world. Try finger ctan@ftp.dante.de to find a mirror site near to you. The second site is a well known Linux site which is regularly dumped onto CD-ROMs. So, you might get teTeX on a Linux CD that way (although teTeX origins from Linux, it can be used on other UNIX systems as well). =========================================================================== The most important changes with respect to the 0.3.3 version: =========================================================================== - New items in this release: * support for more common UNIX platforms: Solaris 2.5, AIX 4.X, HP-UX 10.01, NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC) * sauter fonts * documentation (FAQs, epslatex.ps, catalogue.html) * some LaTeX packages - Updated items: * DC fonts 1.3 patchlevel 2 * LaTeX2e <1996/06/01> with many extra packages * TeXdraw macros * PostScript fonts: now backward compatible to the old dvips setup (virtual fonts for ptmr, phvr, ... added) - Removed items: * stand-alone info reader * myletter LaTeX package (permission withdrawn by author) * xtexsh (needs old Tcl/Tk) * some urw PostScript fonts: antiqua grotesq nimbus =========================================================================== I do not know teTeX yet... =========================================================================== For those who do not know what teTeX is: teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems. My main aims when putting things together have been: - create something simple to install, use and maintain - include as much useful documentation as possible - test as much as possible and try to avoid bugs =========================================================================== Here - in short - the main features of teTeX, as listed in the file FEATURES: =========================================================================== Main features of the teTeX distribution: - file organisation TDS (TeX Directory Structure) Standard compliant - very easy to install and customize (install.sh and texconfig utility) - LaTeX2e (June 1996) together with lots of extra LaTeX packages (most packages mentioned in the LaTeX Companion) - a lot of documentation: more than 130 dvi/ps-files, teTeX manual, FAQs - support for read-only inputs tree (i.e. possibility to use alternate destination for newly created fonts) - ready for a multi platform setup - fast file searching. web2c patched to work with kpathsea-2.6. The search paths are chosen to give high performance. - run-time configuration files for dvi-drivers and tex+friends. - a nice set of fonts to play with: PostScript fonts, ams, pandora, cm, dc, oldgerman. All easily accessible by LaTeX. - the whole distribution can be installed anywhere in the filesystem (e.g. /usr/TeX or /usr/local/tex). You do not need to set any environment variable as long as you keep the original structure of the package. - mailing list for discussion: tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de - mailing list for announcemants: tetex-announce@informatik.uni-hannover.de =========================================================================== Included packages: =========================================================================== Programs: web2c: tex, mf, bibtex, gftopk, ... dvi drivers: xdvi, dvips, dvilj, dvilj2p, dvilj4, dvilj4l texinfo: info, makeinfo, texindex, ... scripts: dvi2fax, dvihp, ps2frag (perl), fontimport, fontexport, texconfig, allneeded, allcm, alldc, ... others: makeindex, kpsetool, gsftopk, ps2pk, afm2tfm, ... Macro packages (La)TeX: algorithm amsfonts amslatex anysize apalike arrow babel beton bibgerm blkarray boxedminipage btxmac calc caption cite comment custom-bib dinbrief doublespace dvips eepic endfloat eplain euler example fancyhdr fancyheadings float floatflt foiltex fullpage g-brief geometry german gletter graphics greekctr here hyphen idxmac index initials isolatin1 koma-script labels landscape lastpage ltxtable mathrsfs mflogo mfnfss minitoc moreverb natbib nopageno ntgclass null parskip path picinpar pictex plain program psfig psfrag psnfss relsize rotating rotfloat scrload seminar setspace shadow shapepar showtags subfigure supertabular sz testfont texdraw texinfo texnames textcomp textfit textmerg tools typehtml ulem umlaute url version vmargin wasyfont wasysym wrapfig xepsf Supported fonts: avantgar bookman courier helvetic mathptm mathppl ncntrsbk palatino symbol times utopia zapfchan zapfding cyrillic euler extracm symbols charter cm concrete dc gothic latex mflogo misc pandora wasy =========================================================================== Supported platforms: =========================================================================== Binaries are available for: alpha-osf2.0 Digital UNIX V2.0 Alpha alpha-osf3.2 Digital UNIX V3.2 Alpha-AXP hppa1.1-hpux10.01 HP-UX 10.01 9000/710 hppa1.1-hpux9.01 HP-UX 9.01 9000/710 i386-bsdi2.0 BSDI 2.0 Intel i386-freebsd2.0.5 FreeBSD 2.0.5 Intel i386-freebsd2.1.0 FreeBSD 2.1.0 Intel i386-netbsd1.0 NetBSD 1.0 Intel i386-netbsd1.1 NetBSD 1.1 Intel i486-linux Linux (ELF) Intel i486-linuxaout Linux (a.out) Intel m68k-linux Linux (ELF) Motorola m68k-linuxoldld Linux (a.out) Motorola mab-nextstep3 NEXTSTEP (NeXT,Intel,HP-PA,SPARC) mips-irix5.2 SGI Irix 5.2 mips-irix5.3 SGI Irix 5.3 mips-ultrix4.4 DEC Ultrix 4.4 rs6000-aix3.2 IBM AIX 3.2 RS6000 rs6000-aix4.1.1 IBM AIX 4.1.1 RS6000 sparc-solaris2.4 SUN Solaris 2.4 Sparc sparc-solaris2.5 SUN Solaris 2.4 Sparc sparc-sunos4.1.3 SUN SunOS 4.1.3 Sparc Binaries for some other platforms are planned to be added in the future. The sources may compile on other UNIX compatible platforms, too. You need GNU make and gcc. I am not sure if lex does work on all systems, but at least flex did alway work. =========================================================================== Documentation =========================================================================== There is the teTeX manual (TETEXDOC.dvi) a teTeX FAQ (FAQ-teTeX) and lots of documentation for the included programs and macros. =========================================================================== Getting the files + Installation =========================================================================== To install teTeX follow the instructions in INSTALL.src: if you want to compile the binaries yourself INSTALL.bin: if you want to use precompiled binaries. =========================================================================== mailing list: =========================================================================== There are two mailing-lists for teTeX: Get help from the list server with: echo help | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de To subscribe the teTeX discussion list, do: echo subscribe tetex | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de To subscribe the teTeX announce list, do: echo subscribe tetex-announce | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de Get an archive of the list: echo get tetex archive | mail majordomo@informatik.uni-hannover.de =========================================================================== Copyright License: GNU GPL Version 2 (or later) =========================================================================== Please send feedback to the autor: Thomas Esser Email: te@informatik.uni-hannover.de 19.07.1996 -- Dipl.-Math. Thomas Esser te@informatik.uni-hannover.de University of Hanover, Germany Institute for Informatics (Databases and Information Systems Group) From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 23 09:38:05 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 13:19:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New: Crossword macros for current LaTeX I have just installed a port of the `old' macros on CTAN at macros/latex/contrib/other/crosswrd The file 00readme in the directory says: This is a port to LaTeX(2e) of Brian {Hamilton Kelly}'s crossword macros for LaTeX 2.09 (Brian is aware that I've done this work; he's not in a position to support the macros nowadays, any more than I am). I have made changes necessary to run the macros under current LaTeX, and I have corrected the test programs that have been buggy on the archive for some rather long time. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 23 09:50:16 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:22:57 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Peter Seitz writes: > Dear CTAN team, > > I've uploaded on ftp.dante.de the following file: > > diskette.bat > > It's a batch file formerly written by Roger de Reus, which produces > diskettes for the emtex distribution from the emtex directory on > CTAN according to Eberhard Mattes diskette.doc. It can be used for > dos or os/2. > > I've adapted the file for the latest emtex distribution (21-Jun-96) > and it now can also produce diskettes for the fli libraries. > > A good place to install it might be > > /tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/contrib > > > BTW, the file b-11-fmt.zip in this directory, which i've uploaded a > long while ago is obsolete (emtex beta11) and should be removed. > > Thanks for your support. You're welcome. Thanks for your update. I installed diskette.bat in the directory indicated and removed the old file b-11-fmt.zip. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jul 23 10:27:06 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:14:14 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: teTeX and LaTeX2e removed from ftp.shsu.edu Since ftp.shsu.edu is unmanaged and the mirror software stopped running a while ago, we decide to remove LaTeX(2e) and teTeX from ftp.shsu.edu, to stop the out-of-date versions from being propagated further. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 24 11:24:23 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:14:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: pslatex David Carlisle has provided a new macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex and I've isntalled it here at ftp.tex.ac.uk David's readme says: > pslatex (Times/Helvetica/Courier with LaTeX2e) > > David Carlisle > 1994/02/07 > 1996/07/22 > 1996/07/24 > > This is a small package that makes LaTeX default to `standard' > PostScript fonts. It is basically a hacked merger of times.sty and > mathptm.sty, from the psnfss suite of packages. You must have > installed standard LaTeX (LaTeX2e) and psnfss PostScript fonts > to use this package. > > The main novel feature is that the pslatex package (unlike times.sty) > tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts > by scaling Helvetica by 90%, and `condensing' Courier (ie scaling > horizontally) by 85%. > > The second novel feature is that it is supplied with a (unix) shell > file that produces a `pslatex' command that allows standard LaTeX > documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file to add > \usepackage{pslatex} > The same command is supplied as a .bat file for DOS, and could be easily > edited to the command language for any other OS. > > I have not used this much myself, I prefer Computer Modern Fonts, as a > rule, but it has had reasonably extensive testing as it has been used > as a replacement for the old LaTeX2.09 pslatex by Mario Wolczko, which > had a large user base at Manchester. > > To use this package: either add the line \usepackage{pslatex} to your > preamble, or if you do not want to edit the file, use the supplied > `pslatex' command instead of `latex' which will cause LaTeX to > automatically include the pslatex package at \begin{document}. > > > Files > ===== > > 00readme.txt This file > > dvips/pcrr8rn.map If you are using dvips, copy the one line from > this file to your psfonts.map file. > > fontinst/courier.tex The source file for the courier vf fonts. > You do not need this file unless you need to > recreate the supplied files using fontinst. > > latex/pslatex.sty The pslatex package, place this in your > TEXINPUTS tree. > > > shell/pslatex A unix (Bourne shell) script to supply a > `pslatex' command that implicitly adds > \usepackage{pslatex} > pslatex.bat Same for DOS > > > tfm/pcrr8rn.tfm tfm font, for condensed courier. (Raw) > pcrr7tn.tfm (OT1) > pcrr8tn.tfm (T1) > Place these in your tfm area > > > > vf/pcrr7tn.vf vf font, for condensed courier. (OT1) > pcrr8tn.vf (T1) > Place these in your vf area > > > afm/pcrr8a.afm Courier > psyr.afm Symbol > afm files. You don't need these unless using > fontinst to rebuild the supplied fonts. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 24 12:37:03 1996 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:26:20 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New: uniqleaf -- find duplicate names in a tree I have installed this small utility program on CTAN in support/uniqleaf The header comments of the file say: # Check filesystem tree (or union of several trees) for unique # leaf names; useful for spotting ambiguities that path-searching # programs could trip over. # For each non-unique leaf name found, it prints out "ls" and "md5" # information for each candidate file. # Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk # University of Cambridge Computer Lab # Cambridge UK $mdprog = "md5"; # Set to command name of "md5" program, or # null string if you don't have it. In the circumstance of the present kerfuffle about multiple instances of the same file, I requested Martyn's permission to make his small script more widely available. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jul 24 23:21:09 1996 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 04:17:57 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission: winedt > From: Aleksander Simonic > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:29:25 -0300 > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > > This is a new shareware release of WinEdit and these files should replace > all the files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEdit 1.4-b is to replace > the old version of WinEdit 1.4-a (in the same directory). I replaced the old version 1.4-a with the new one. It will soon be mirrored to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team PS: Aleksander, please send your upload notification to ctan@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de the next time. The old address ctan@shsu.edu is considered obsolete and we don't know how long it will be operational. -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 31 01:57:49 1996 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 06:52:42 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Update to aguplus > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 08:25:30 +0200 > I have just placed the following files in the incoming/aguplus directory > on Dante CTAN server: > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 33950 Jul 30 08:19 aguplus.cls > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 33350 Jul 30 08:19 aguplus.sty > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 42459 Jul 30 08:20 aguplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 3932 Jul 30 08:20 changes.v14a > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 10813 Jul 30 08:20 samplus.tex > > Could you please copy them to contrib/supported/aguplus > replacing the files of the same name and removing changes.v14 I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 31 02:03:19 1996 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:00:01 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- > From: hr2@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Frank Stippich) > Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 23:01:46 -0400 > I have uploaded TeXEd13.zip. Please install this file into > the pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory and delete all *.zip > files. I installed the file on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/systems/os2/texed as requested and removed the old version and patches. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Jul 31 10:11:25 1996 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:55:03 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Tracking Glazkov D. A. writes: > I have uploaded package to the: > > ftp.dante.de > > The file is "tracking.sty" > > This style invoke the commands for tracking, i.e. automatical adjust > spaces between symbols in a words or phrases to fit them into needed > length. Any chain of symbols (including spaces) in current font may > be treated. The result of macros is placed onto one line of text, because > it is inserted into \hbox{...}. > > I think it may be placed in: > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/tracking/ > [...] > I have upload package to the: > > ftp.dante.de > > The file is "shadbox.zip" > > > The goal of this command is to darken the background of any box - > text, figure, table etc. In the contrast to PostScript drivers, > DVIWIN etc. there is not used any driver-specific properties, but > standard Plain(La) TeX. Small black squares is places in the area > of the box. The degree of darkness is regulated by means of change the > distance between small black squares. > > The retribution for driver-independence is: the less squares and > nearer to each other, the greater the size of output DVI-file (and > grows quickly). One must experiment to find balance between quality > of shadow and size of output file. > > > I think it may be placed in: > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/shadbox/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dmitry A. Glazkov E-mail: glazkov@sci.lpi.msk.su > P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute Phone : 7-095-132-6017 > Russian Academy of Sciencies > Moscow, Leninsky prosp. 53 > 117924 Russia > -------------------------------------------------------------------- I installed the packages into macros/latex/contrib/other/tracking and macros/latex/contrib/other/shadbox respectively. If you plan to support the packages, please tell me, so that I can move them from the "other"into the "supported" area. Thanks a lot For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug 2 09:35:42 1996 Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 14:16:14 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.01 MMuecke@t-online.de writes: > I have written a very nice TeX-editor for Windows 95, which I have submitted > to your archive at ftp.dante.de. > > You will find a directory /incoming/wtex95 which I have submitted first, but > because I found some Bugs afterwards I submitted version 1.01 of my > program to /incoming/WinTeX95-1.01. Thanks a lot, I installed the files in systems/win32/wtex95 I append the README ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is version 1.01 of WinTeX 95! WinTeX 95 is a very flexible, 32-bit Windows-TeX-editor with the fantastic, Highlight-O-Matic syntax-highlighting-feature. In this version I have fixed some minor problems with the installation and highlighting of comments works fine now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 5 09:02:04 1996 Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 13:38:09 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission (geometry package upgraded) Hideo Umeki writes: > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.04) > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.04.tar.gz. > > Change from 1.03: > > Bug fixed: Setting papersize={w,h} had no effect when papertype > (ex. a4paper) was given in geometry.cfg file or as a package option. > > Please replace the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. > > Thank you in advance. > > Hideo > > --- > Hideo Umeki [TUG member] > (umeki@ssel.toshiba.co.jp) > (Temporal: umeki@toshiba-ssel.rwcp.or.jp) > Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory > Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation > tel: +81-44-548-5472 > fax: +81-44-520-5973 Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Aug 6 06:24:08 1996 Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 10:16:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New version of my portmanteau footnote macros I have just installed, on ftp.tex.ac.uk a new version of my portmanteau footnote macros. The new version should propagate to ftp.dante.de and to our various mirrors pretty soon. At the same time, I've taken the opportunity of installing a link to patch.doc, which is required by footnote.sty; the README file gave the location of patch.doc, but I have nevertheless had several enquiries about its location. The new version fixes a bug in the stability of per-page numbering (this bug appeared in a >400-page document I've been working on). There is one outstanding issue that I've yet to solve -- the name clash with Mark Wooding's macros. Since the two packages are dealing with orthogonal issues, there's no objection in principle to merging them, but there are a number of problems with proceeding in that way. Robin Fairbairns From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 8 08:39:08 1996 Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 13:18:39 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.02 MMuecke@t-online.de writes: > Hi there! > > I have uploaded version 1.02 of my TeX-Editor to /incoming/wtex95_1.02 at > ftp.dante.de. > > Because I have fixed a major problem with the registration-routine, it is > quite important for me, that you update the version on your archive. ;-) > > > Thanks a lot! > > Michael M|cke > > P.S.: The readme-file is a new one, too --- did I have to mention? :-] Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Thu Aug 8 08:41:15 1996 Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 13:24:21 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd13a.zip hr2@aixterm1.urz.uni-heidelberg.de writes: > Hello, > > I've uploaded TeXEd13a.zip. Please install this file into > the systems/os2/texed directory and *delete* TeXEd13.zip. > > Thank you > Frank Stippich > ----------------------------------------------------------- > hr2@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de > ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Aug 9 12:29:05 1996 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 15:46:27 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- D-OzTeX2.0.1 /LML Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes: > finally time to update /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german Done. Thanks a lot. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Aug 9 12:37:29 1996 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 16:28:35 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- texperf.zip John Forkosh writes: > I've submitted the following: > (a) upload site: ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming > (b) file uploaded: texperf.zip > (c) brief overview: yet another WordPerfect->LaTeX conversion > program. > (d) where to put it: tex-archive/support (similarly to where > all the other WordPerfect->LaTeX programs reside). > Thanks for your help, > John (forkosh@panix.com) Thanks for that. I've pulled the 00README out of the .zip file, and have installed the .zip and the 00README in the directory support/texperf here at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Aug 10 11:45:22 1996 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 15:38:24 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Sam Sirlin wrote (some time ago ...): > I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file textib3.2.tar.Z. This is a set > of files for typing the Tibetan language in TeX or LaTeX. It includes > some c source code (a filter), some .mf files, and some examples. > > Here's the tar list: > > x src/table.c, 8091 bytes, 16 tape blocks > x src/table.h, 693 bytes, 2 tape blocks > x src/tfilt.c, 1260 bytes, 3 tape blocks > x src/token.h, 918 bytes, 2 tape blocks > x src/tparse.c, 20139 bytes, 40 tape blocks > x src/util.c, 2246 bytes, 5 tape blocks > x README, 2372 bytes, 5 tape blocks > x WARNING, 384 bytes, 1 tape blocks > x src/Makefile, 301 bytes, 1 tape blocks > x fonts/mf/bzrsetup.mf, 7414 bytes, 15 tape blocks > x fonts/mf/gtib.mf, 496121 bytes, 969 tape blocks > x fonts/mf/gtibsp.mf, 57214 bytes, 112 tape blocks > x tib/doc.tib, 7059 bytes, 14 tape blocks > x tib/mani.tib, 220 bytes, 1 tape blocks > x tib/p31p33.tib, 2693 bytes, 6 tape blocks > x tib/p32p34.tib, 3103 bytes, 7 tape blocks > x tib/sample.tib, 2391 bytes, 5 tape blocks > x tib/doc.ps, 146685 bytes, 287 tape blocks > x doc/examples.doc, 349 bytes, 1 tape blocks > x inputs/boxes.tex, 1280 bytes, 3 tape blocks > x inputs/tibdef.tex, 3341 bytes, 7 tape blocks > x bin/ttex, 1071 bytes, 3 tape blocks > > This stuff certainly belongs in the languages/tibetan section of the > archives, along with the older stuff there (which this is based on). After some thought (and a long delay) I've re-arranged the language/tibetan area of CTAN. The old stuff I've moved to language/tibetan/original, and I've put Sam's stuff in language/tibetan/sirlin I believe this is consonant with the way other languages are treated (for example, greek), but it could of course confuse anyone looking for the previous Tibetan stuff. Let's hope scholars of Tibetan aren't terribly easily confused. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:08:28 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:04:03 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LaTeX-CAD Version 1.7 John Leis writes: > Good Evening, > > I've just uploaded latexcad17.zip, size 468 704 bytes, to /incoming of > ftp.dante.de . This is version 1.7 of the latexcad drawing package, and > replaces all files in the current CTAN hierarchy under > /systems/msdos/latexcad > > Thanks, > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John Leis Phone: 076 312 551 > Faculty of Engineering & Surveying Fax: 076 312 526 > University of Southern Queensland email: leis@usq.edu.au > > "Lifetime Warranty" ?? > Isn't that like "100% certified" (which some of my friends are). > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:06:39 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:06:08 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- jura Felix Braun writes: > I just uploaded the newest version of my jura-documentclass for latex2e > into ftp.dante.de/incoming/jura/* > > Could you please place it into > CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/ > > Please note that all the older files should be deleted. > Thanx and Bye ... Felix > -- > Felix Braun Fax+Tel: ++49-30-3414958 > Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.7 EMail:fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de > D-10585 Berlin hcl@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de > GERMANY > Member of the ELCOM-Team of ELSA-Germany and ELSA-International Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Aug 12 06:13:12 1996 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:11:49 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Sebastian Kirsch writes: > I uploaded ftp.dante.de:/incoming/dco/dco-1.3pl2.tar.gz > > There is also a part of this file in /incoming, resulting from my first, > failed attempt. Sorry for that. > > dco-1.3pl2.tar.gz contains a set of .vf and .tfm-file for using the > dc-fonts with so-called "Gemeine" or oldstyle numerals. It also contains > a Bourne shell script which I used to create this set of virtual fonts. > > I recommend placing this package under /tex-archive/fonts/dco. I installed the files as requested. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 13 13:53:18 1996 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:43:10 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Enrico Bertolazzi writes: > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It > contain: > > version 0.3 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.3 of the `easyvector' package > version 0.1 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package > version 0.1 of the `easytable' package > and version 0.1 of the easymat style. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. > > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > Thanks a lot for the attention, > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Enrico Bertolazzi > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata tel: +39-461-882629 > Universita` degli studi di Trento fax: +39-461-882672 > Via Mesiano 77 > I-38050 Trento, Italy email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it > ____________________________________________________________________________ Thanks a lot, I made the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Aug 13 14:02:16 1996 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:46:46 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- biblos.zip Anders Mvller writes: > I have uploaded the file biblos.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming > > The file includes the program 'Biblos', a BibTeX database manager for > Windows95/Windows NT. Biblos uses the CGI (common gateway interface) > protocol so that BibTeX files can be managed remotely using an > HTTP-server on the server side and a Web-browser such as Netscape on the > client side. > > I recomend that biblos.zip is placed at > > /tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/utils I installed the file in systems/msdos/biblos075.zip with a symbolic link in bibliography/bibtex/utils/biblos075.zip Thanks a lot. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 14 05:38:07 1996 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:32:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- acronym Tobias Oetiker writes: > I have uploaded version 1.2 of my acronym package to > ftp.tex.ac.uk: acronym.tar.gz > > this new version features a new command: \acl to print > the expanded acronym with out even mentioning that there > is an acronym for this word. Thanks, I've installed the replacement here. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Aug 15 05:36:33 1996 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:24:12 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dc bitmap fonts for Textures Uwe Schmock writes: > I just uploaded the directory dc1.3 (containing 16 files) to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > Please place the directory inside /tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/fonts. > Please make sure that the permissions are set correctly, I currently cannot > get the files back. > > Inside the directory dc1.3 you find the dc fonts, version 1.3, and the > corresponding metrics for use with Textures on a Macintosh. The Macintosh > fonts are in a preliminary bitmap form until someone else provides them in > a better form (PostScript Type 1, for example). An 8k Read-Me file is > included. I've installed the contribution in systems/mac/textures/contrib/fonts/dc1.3 ^^^^^^^ The reason I've not done exactly as you ask is that all of the other systems/mac/textures directories are mirrored directly from Blue Sky -- if your directory had gone into fonts/, it would have disappeared again when we next mirrored from Oregon. Thanks for the contribution Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sun Aug 18 18:17:18 1996 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:16:14 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- 8-bit BibTeX update (v3.71) Niel Kempson writes: > I've uploaded an updated release of the fully 8-bit adaptation of BibTeX > 0.99 to the /incoming directory on ftp.tex.ac.uk. There are five files: > > bt371.readme - `README' file describing the implementation > bt371csf.zip - example code page and sorting order definition files > bt371dos.zip - binary + documentation kit for MS-DOS users > bt371os2.zip - binary + documentation kit for 32 bit OS/2 users > bt371src.zip - complete source code kit for all supported platforms > > Please transfer them to directory tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/8-bit - the > existing bt370* file may be deleted. > > This release fixes a number of bugs reported for the first public release > (3.70). > > I propose to send an announcement to comp.text.tex when the files are in > place. I've installed the files as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From ohl@CRUNCH.IKP.PHYSIK.TH-DARMSTADT.DE Wed Aug 21 10:31:56 1996 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:04:15 +0200 From: Thorsten Ohl To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: [LaTeX, Metafont, Graphics, Feynman diagrams] FEYNMF v1.07 released This announces version 1.07 of feynmf, a combined LaTeX/Metafont package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. If you don't know if feynmf is useful for you, have a look at the preformatted manual (`manual.ps.gz'). It is provided to wet your appetite with numerous examples. Version 1.07 is a bug fix release and offers no new features. This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.07 * Switch off I/O during the first pass in AMS-LaTeX equation environments. This avoids a nasty race condition (thanks to Axel Thimm for reporting this bug). A beneficial side effect is that it saves us 50% processing time in these cases. Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TH Darmstadt --- PGP: AF 38 FF CE 03 8A 2E A7 http://crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ -------- 8F 2A C1 86 8C 06 32 6B From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug 21 03:59:03 1996 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:54:32 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinTeX 95 1.1 (fwd) > From: Michael Muecke > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 07:45:33 +-200 > I have uploaded version 1.1 of my program to /incoming/wtex95_1.1_good. You > will find a ZIP-file and the README-file. I have replaced the old version (1.02) in systems/win32/wtex95 on ftp.dante.de. >From the wtex95.txt file: : This is version 1.1 of WinTeX 95! : : WinTeX 95 is a very flexible, 32-bit Windows-TeX-editor with the fantastic, : Highlight-O-Matic syntax-highlighting-feature. : : Version 1.1: : : + Highlighting now (theoretically) works for files up to 2GB (instead of 32KB)! : + Unlimited number of user menus for TeX-commands. : + Added a button bar for the TeX-commands. : + Added option to auto save TeX-file before executing user command. : + Some ASCII-characters like (v, d, |, _, 4) that have different : ANSI-codes are now loaded and saved correctly. (optional) : + Shortcuts for frequently used commands : + superfast Spellchecking : + superfast Find + Replace : + Search for LaTeX-errors and -warnings. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Aug 21 05:44:29 1996 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:37:13 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to CTAN bundle aguplus (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:09:11 +0200 > > I have just put some update files for the aguplus bundle onto the DANTE CTAN > server under /incoming/aguplus > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 3882 Aug 21 10:04 README.pwd > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 38254 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.cls > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 37565 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.sty > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 42987 Aug 21 10:03 aguplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4005 Aug 21 10:03 changes.v15 > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 10791 Aug 21 10:04 samplus.tex > > Can you please copy them to latex/contrib/supported/aguplus > > removing the existing changes.v14a and readme.pwd. > > The other, unchanged files, should stay. I have installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as requested. They will soon be mirrored to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 21 13:50:16 1996 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:42:49 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: `stable' footnotes in section titles, captions, etc A while back I described, on comp.text.tex, a technique for ensuring that footnotes in section titles and the like didn't migrate into the table of contents, etc. In a moment when I needed to take my mind off other things, I've worked that post up into a mini-package, and have installed it at ftp.tex.ac.uk, whence it'll make its way (eventually) to dante and the CTAN mirrors. The file is macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/stblftnt.sty Its first few lines are: \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01] % % a jiffy to ensure that footnotes don't migrate to the table of % contents, list of tables/figures, headlines, etc. Which are the limit of the documentation you'll get. If nobody spots a ghastly flaw in it, I'll probably, eventually, incorporate it into one or other of the portmanteau footnote packages. Robin Fairbairns From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug 25 10:24:24 1996 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 14:57:14 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > From: Aleksander Simonic > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:35:30 -0300 > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > > This is a new shareware release of WinEDT and these files should replace > all the files in tex-archive/support/winedt. WinEDT 1.4-c is to replace > the old version of WinEDT 1.4-b (in the same directory). > > ps. I had to change the name of the program from WinEdit to WinEDT because > WinEdit (an obvious choice for an application of this kind) happens to be > a (registered?) trademark of the WindowWare company. I have installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested. >From the WinEDT.txt file: 1. What is WinEDT? =============== WinEDT(TM) is a state of the art text editor and Shell for Windows 95 (Windows NT or Windows 3.x). WinEDT can be used to edit HUGE text files. The user can open many files at once and can switch between them using the Window Menu or "Ctrl+Tab" switch. Opened Documents can be Tiled, Cascaded or arranged inside the client window in a custom manner (by the mouse). WinEDT uses a Multiple Documents Interface (MDI) and follows or extends Windows' Standards in every respect. WinEDT supports (LaTeX) Syntax Highlighting and Input/Output ASCII Code Translation Tables. WinEDT comes with a comprehensive, Context-Sensitive Help. WinEDT supports long file names (when running under a 32-bit OS). WinEDT Shell can be customized to run with different utilities and is particularly suitable for writing TeX documents. WinEDT allows the user to install DOS and Windows Applications and activate them by using a Menu Command or a Tool Bar Button. Furthermore, WinEDT can pass currently opened files as parameters, making sure that changes are automatically saved before the files are compiled. After defining utilities (such as TeX, LaTeX, BibTeX, DVI Driver, Spell Checker), most of the common tasks while writing a TeX document or a project are reduced to clicking a Tool Bar Button or selecting a Menu Command. WinEDT is suitable for writing papers, theses or books, using a simple but efficient strategy to manage projects. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Sun Aug 25 11:08:58 1996 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 16:07:43 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- lgrind (lgrindef) (fwd) > From: Michael Piefel > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 11:51:04 +0200 > > (a) DANTE > (b) one file - lgrindef (24290 Bytes) > (c) replacement for the old lgrindef in the LGrind package > (d) support/lgrind/ I have replaced the file support/lgrind/lgrindef on ftp.dante.de. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Sun Aug 25 10:53:21 1996 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:54:03 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Mainz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: dc fonts 1.3 Patchlevel 4 The CTAN crew has now installed dc fonts 1.3 patchlevel 4. This patchlevel fixes a serious bug, which was present in the dc fonts from the very beginning: The zero width character |compound word mark| used to have a non-zero horizontal escapement, which causes an ugly gap with a proper dvi driver. Non-proper dvi drivers (using only tfm widths) didn't exhibit the bug in the fonts. I also applied fixes to the sans serif lowercase hacheks, in order to reduce the number of fonts which give METAFONT errors. If you install the new patchlevel, the following actions are required: * Re-compute *all* pk files (the horizontal escapement is recorded there) * Re-install the tfm files for the sans serif family (including *ss*, *si*, *sx*, *so*, *sq*, *qi*, *lq*, *li*, *lb*, *lo*) Yours, J"org Knappen. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 27 05:59:22 1996 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:47:09 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- flatex Har-Peled Sariel writes: > Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > Files : flatex.C > Overview : > * Flatten a latex file into a single file, by explicitly including > * the files inclued by \include and \input commands. Also, if bibtex is > * beeing used, then includes the .bbl file into the resulting file. Thus, > * creating a stand alone latex file that can be emailed to someone else. > > placement: /ctan/tex-archive/support/flatex/ I've installed the file as suggested, _except_ that I've made the file title uniform case (flatex.c) -- I also edited the self-references within the file. This is to conform with the policy of creating TDS-compliant file and directory names wherever possible. Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From piet@CS.RUU.NL Tue Aug 27 06:40:02 1996 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:33:42 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: upload I have put shading.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. For some reason the version in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shading.sty is broken. It uses \linewidth as a private parameter, which of course clashes with LaTeX's length parameter of the same name (that's what you get by not using \newcommand). It appeared that the version that I have, has the name changed to \outlineboxwidth. Apart from the comments, that's the only difference. I don't know how I got this file. There is also an accompanying doc file shading.tex By the way, it appears to work with LaTeX2e. It lacks the modularity of graphics, however (it is dvips specific). I think that the color package essentially delivers its functionality with a different syntax. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 27 06:45:14 1996 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 10:42:38 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: upload -- shading Piet van Oostrum writes: > I have put shading.sty on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. > For some reason the version in > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shading.sty is broken. >[...] > There is also an accompanying doc file shading.tex Since there are now _two_ shading files, I've moved them to a directory of their own: bash$ ls -l macros/latex209/contrib/shading/ total 18 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 9082 Aug 27 10:20 shading.sty -rw-rw-r-- 1 ctan TeX 8613 Aug 27 10:29 shading.tex Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 27 13:39:29 1996 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:34:48 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: UPLOAD: dctfm.zip Jörg Knappen writes: > I have just uploaded the tfm files for dc fonts patchlevel 4. > > Please unpack the zip archive in directory > > .../fonts/dc/tfm Done. For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 28 12:13:16 1996 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:04:04 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: update to pslatex David Carlisle writes: > Update to pslatex. > > There has been a serious bug reported in the `pslatex' package to > typeset documents in times/helvetica/courier. Many symbols such as ^ > and ~ will not work in \tt fonts (eg in verbatim) as currently > distributed. > > The fix is simple: > > The line in the file pcrr8rn.map should be changed from > pcrr8rn Courier ".85 ExtendFont" <8r.enc > to > pcrr8rn Courier ".85 ExtendFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc > A new copy of pcrr8rn.map has been placed on ctan in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/pslatex/dvips > > If you have installed pslatex already, you may have copied the above > line into your dvips configuration file psfonts.map, in which case the > same change (adding TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont) should be made in > psfonts.map. > > Sorry for this inconvenience > > David Carlisle The placement on CTAN is at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the first instance. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 2 06:29:29 1996 Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 10:14:01 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX 2.1 Andrew Trevorrow writes: > I've just uploaded the following set of files for OzTeX 2.1 > to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/oztex/: > > Read-Me > alphalite.hqx > bibtex.hqx > configs.hqx > dvips.hqx > formats.hqx > help.hqx > inputs.hqx > latexdocs.hqx > metafont.hqx > ozdvips.hqx > ozmf.hqx > oztex.hqx > xwords.hqx Thanks, Andrew. The files are now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 2 08:37:27 1996 Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 12:25:53 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Transfer statistics for ftp.tex.ac.uk, August 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Wed Jul 31 1996 TO Sat Aug 31 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 291865 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 37003073646 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 9121 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 1156346051 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Wed Jul 31 1996 5217 885348311 5.5 KB/s 1.79 2.39 Thu Aug 1 1996 8555 1744445852 7.2 KB/s 2.93 4.71 Fri Aug 2 1996 7456 2792795318 10.3 KB/s 2.55 7.55 Sat Aug 3 1996 7600 571726757 4.2 KB/s 2.60 1.55 Sun Aug 4 1996 11909 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Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 61554 19963411944 21.09 53.95 TeX Informational Files 3824 7906044186 1.31 21.37 fonts 84012 2518236104 28.78 6.81 macros 57487 2309395677 19.70 6.24 support 25802 1523776415 8.84 4.12 info 6064 987645863 2.08 2.67 tools 9309 544347656 3.19 1.47 dviware 9118 282420931 3.12 0.76 language 9857 132263633 3.38 0.36 Informational Files 158 131127845 0.05 0.35 biblio 3720 123280907 1.27 0.33 digests 2810 119233912 0.96 0.32 web 8138 111264381 2.79 0.30 graphics 4314 106195386 1.48 0.29 help 2236 88465698 0.77 0.24 From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Tue Sep 3 05:15:00 1996 Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:07:07 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- jura.cls Felix Braun writes: > Hi guys, > ~~~~~~~~ > yes here it is, yet another update for my document-class for german law > student's papers. I suggest you place the new jura.dtx-File I just > uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming into the directory > > CTAN:macros/latex/supported/jura/ > > Bye ... Felix > > -- > Felix Braun Fax+Tel: ++49-30-3414958 > Kaiser-Friedrich-Str.7 EMail:fbraun@rz.uni-potsdam.de > D-10585 Berlin hcl@lbcmbx.in-berlin.de > GERMANY > Member of the ELCOM-Team of ELSA-Germany and ELSA-International Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 4 05:47:51 1996 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:23:40 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN update -- circuit_macros Dwight Aplevich writes: > The file Circuit_macros4.tar.gz has been put in /incoming on > ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > When expanded, this is version 4 of the contents of CTAN directory > tex-archive/graphics/circuit_macros, of which I am the author, and > supersedes the previous version in its entirety. > > Extracts from the README file: > > Circuit_macros > > This is a set of macros for drawing electric circuits containing > fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, and basic logic gates > to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar documents. Some tools for block > diagrams are also included. The advantages and disadvantages of such > a system are similar to those of TeX itself, which is macro-based, > non-wysiwyg, and which uses ordinary character input. > > These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which > is very easy to learn and has a good power/complexity ratio. Because > pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is > well-suited to drawings that contain parametric or conditional > components, that require fine tuning, significant geometric > calculations or repetition, or that are naturally block structured or > tree structured. Pic is not wysiwyg. Interpreters for the language > are readily available, and some are free. > ... > > MINIMUM REQUIRED SOFTWARE: > m4, gpic or equivalent, TeX, a driver recognizing tpic specials > ... I've installed the new release as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Sep 4 05:38:57 1996 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 10:26:38 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Enrico Bertolazzi writes: > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It contains: > > version 0.4 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.4 of the `easyvector' package > version 0.3 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.3 of the `easymat' package > version 0.3 of the `easytable' package > version 0.1 of the `easybib' package. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. > > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easybib} package is > a macro package for writing custom bibliography > with a simple sintax. > > Thanks a lot for the attention, > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Enrico Bertolazzi > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata tel: +39-461-882629 > Universita` degli studi di Trento fax: +39-461-882672 > Via Mesiano 77 > I-38050 Trento, Italy email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it > ____________________________________________________________________________ Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Wed Sep 4 05:34:08 1996 Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:27:53 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- Improved LTX2X program -- a LaTeX to X autotagger Peter Wilson writes: > I have sent the file ltx2x.tar.gz to directory /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk. > This is a new release of the LTX2X program, and I suggest that it replace > the contents of the current /support/ltx2x directory. > > Below is a version of the README file. > > file: README for August 1996 release of ltx2x LaTeX to X Autotagger > > New improved ltx2x with all sorts of print capabilities. > > FUNCTION > > The ltx2x program will replace LaTeX commands in a LaTeX > document by user-defined strings. In essence, LaTeX tags can > be replaced by other kinds of document tags (e.g. HTML/SGML or RTF tags), > or can be removed altogether. The program also has an unsophisticated > pretty-print capability. > > The replacement strings for the LaTeX commands are specified > in a command table file, which can be created simply via any text > editor. > > The 90 page user manual is provided in LaTeX and Postscript formats. > It is also provided in plain ASCII and HTML formats, automatically generated > by ltx2x from the original LaTeX file. > > FILES > > Files in this distribution are: > o README (this file) > o l2xlib.c and l2xlib.h main program and library functions > o l2xcom.h typedefs > o l2x.l lexer source to be processed by flex > o l2xlexyy.c lexer code after flex processing > o l2x.y parser source to be processed by bison > o l2xytab.c and l2xytab.h parser code after bison processing > o l2xacts.c and l2xacts.h standard action functions > o l2xusrlb.c and l2xusrlb.h user-defined action functions > o srchenv.c and srchenv.h C code for directory searching > o getopt.c and getpopt.h C code for command line options > o strtypes.h header file for string proccessing > o printct.c C program for command table printing and update > o man manpage > o makefile makefile for ltx2x > o ltx2html.sty Package file for ltx2x LaTeX to HTML > o ltx2x.tex User manual in LaTeX format > o ltx2x.ps User manual in PostScript format > o ltx2x.ct Dummy command table file > o bye.ct Example "Goodbye document" command table file > o remcom.ct Example decommenter command table file > o detex.ct Example deTeXing command table file > o ltx2x.txt deTeXed version of ltx2x.tex > o l2h.ct Example command table for LaTeX to HTML conversion > o ltx2x.html HTMLed version of ltx2x.tex > and possibly > o ltx2x.tar.gz Tared and Zipped archive of all the above > > INSTALLATION > > ltx2x is written as a parser for LaTeX. The main source is > in l2xlib.c. Source for the lexer is in l2x.l which has to be > processed by flex (or equivalent) and the parser is in l2x.y > which is intended to be processed by bison (or equivalent). > Support functions are in files l2xacts.c, l2xusrlb.c, srchenv.c > and getopt.c. After the lexer and parser files are processed, > all the code files must be compiled and linked to form the executable. > > The syntax of the command table has been extended and modified. > The printct program will convert a command table in the original > syntax to the new syntax. > > Via Make > -------- > > 0. Read the manual > > 1. Edit the first part of makefile to match your system's configuration. > If you are feeling brave, do `make all'. Otherwise continue as below. > > 2. Do `make' (processes lexer and parser and compiles and links the program) > > 3. (Optional) Set the environment variable LTX2XTABLES to the > directories where command table files might be located > > 4. Test the program > > 5. Do `make install' (moves the binary into its final location) > > 6. Do `make manpage' (edits the manpage and copies it to its working location) > > 7. Do `make ctables' (copies the command tables to their working location) > > 8. Do `make doc' (copies the user manual sources to their final location) > > 9. Do `make clean' (deletes the object code, yacc output, and edited > manpage files) > > 10. Do `make printct' to compile printct.c, then move the binary to > its final destination. > [.sig and NIST disclaimer omitted] I have installed the files at ftp.tex.ac.uk as suggested. Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 5 05:13:00 1996 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 09:05:42 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- lips.sty Matt Swift writes: > I uploaded lips.sty to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > It should replace > macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/lips.sty > > \begin{abstract} > The \cs\lips command generates text ellipses that are closer to what > \booktitle{The Chicago Manual} suggests than what \cs\dots produces. > \end{abstract} > > Version 1.2 fixes 2 bugs that caused \lips to fail in certain > situations. I've done the necessary -- the file will propagate when the machinery swings into action later today. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 5 11:01:31 1996 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 14:50:56 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz Muhammad Masroor Ali writes: > Below please find the particulars of a TeX related package > I have recently uploaded to a CTAN site. > > (a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk > > (b) File: /incoming/masroor_arosonargaon/arosgn2.1.tar.gz > > (c) Overview: Revised version of arosgn2.0 now available > at the CTAN sites. Changes from the previous > version are, > > * arosgn.sty can now be used on a stand-alone > basis without much pain. > > * .mf files made available for optional .pk file > generation to suit personal usage. > > * Sample test files incorporated. > > (d) Placement: In the directory tex-archive/language/bengali. > You can leave the tar file as it is. Or if you decide > to untar it, please place it under a directory > tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.1. > > Thanks a lot for your earliest attention. I've taken the liberty of installing this new release at ftp.tex.ac.uk as language/bengali/arosgn -- having version numbers in the directory names is a pain for us, and we avoid it if we can... Anyway, it's now installed; thank you for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 5 12:35:35 1996 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 16:27:30 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN David Carlisle has submitted comma.sty (which answered a question on comp.text.tex today) to CTAN He says: > comma.sty has just been added to > macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle > it enables the printing of counter values with a separator every three > digits, ``12,345'' or ``12 345''. I've done the installation here at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP Thu Sep 5 21:44:59 1996 Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 09:42:40 +0900 From: Muhammad Masroor Ali To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz > I've taken the liberty of installing this new release at ftp.tex.ac.uk > as language/bengali/arosgn -- having version numbers in the directory > names is a pain for us, and we avoid it if we can... Thanks a lot. Could you please delete the old /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0/ directory? The newer version, arosgn2.1/ supersedes the old one, and the new one is now placed under /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/ In future revisions I am going to request placement under /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/. Hope this will eradicate the trouble of having version numbers in directory names. > Anyway, it's now installed; thank you for the submission. My pleasure. > Robin Fairbairns Muhammad Masroor Ali From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Sep 6 06:19:56 1996 Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 10:05:24 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz > Thanks a lot. Could you please delete the old > /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn2.0/ directory? > The newer version, arosgn2.1/ supersedes the old one, > and the new one is now placed under > /ctan/tex-archive/language/bengali/arosgn/ This is quite crazy -- I thought I _had_ delete arosgn2.0/, but it was definitely still there. It's gone now, though... Sorry about that, Robin From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Fri Sep 6 06:17:07 1996 Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 11:11:13 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Enrico Bertolazzi writes: > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy_new.tar.gz. It contains: > > version 0.4 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.5 of the `easyvector' package (fixed an error on ; command) > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package > version 0.4 of the `easytable' package > version 0.1 of the `easybib' package. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. > > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easybib} package is > a macro package for writing custom bibliography > with a simple sintax. > > Thanks a lot for the attention, > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Enrico Bertolazzi > Laboratorio di Matematica Applicata tel: +39-461-882629 > Universita` degli studi di Trento fax: +39-461-882672 > Via Mesiano 77 > I-38050 Trento, Italy email: enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it > ____________________________________________________________________________ I installed the update as requested. Many thanks For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schvpf Zentrum f|r Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universitdt Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From masroor@HUMAN.IS.KYUSHU-U.AC.JP Fri Sep 6 21:08:25 1996 Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 09:03:01 +0900 From: Muhammad Masroor Ali To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- arosgn2.1.tar.gz > This is quite crazy -- I thought I _had_ delete arosgn2.0/, but it was > definitely still there. > It's gone now, though... Thanks. > Sorry about that, It is okay. > Robin Masroor From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 10 19:43:50 1996 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 16:19:14 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Upload -- ukhyph.tex Dominik Wujastyk writes: > a) I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming > > b) the file is ukhyph.tex > > c) hyphenation patterns for British English, version 2.0. This > replaces the earlier version of 1992, by adding a short list of > hyphenation exceptions. The actual patterns themselves are unchanged. > > d) Recommended place: > /language/hyphenation > > to replace existing files: > /language/hyphenation/ukhyphen.tex I've taken your (revised) upload and installed it as language/ hyphenation/ukhyphen.tex It's silly to maintain two identical copies of the file, so I've made language/english/ukhyph.tex a link to the new file. Incidentally, > /language/hyphenation/ukhyph/ukhyph.tex doesn't exist; the name /language/hyphenation/ukhyph.tex was already a link to ukhyphen.tex in the same directory. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 13 18:38:58 1996 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:33:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- minitoc Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have sent a new version of my minitoc package in /incoming/minitoc. > This is version #25, who updates the support of the norwegian > language (norsk and nynorsk dialects) as suggested by Dag Langmyhr > (a lot of thanks to him). This new version replace the #24 version > in .../macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc. If some users have > suggestions to add or update the language specific files in the > minitoc package, they are welcome. I have installed the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 16 12:27:06 1996 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:19:45 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: New version of SHADOW.STY Mauro Orlandini writes: > I put a new, improved, version of my style file shadow.sty in the > incoming directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk. > This new version eliminates tedious overfull messages due to CRs that have > been left in the macro. Ralf Nitsch spotted the error and sent me this new > version, that now I send you. I have replaced the version on the archive in macros/latex209/contrib/ misc/shadow.sty Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 17 17:56:03 1996 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:51:48 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:05:24 +0200 > > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > README.v381 > geojour.mbs > merlin.mbs > photjour.mbs > physjour.mbs > shorthnd.ins > > Please copy these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > removing README.v38 > > Thanks, Patrick W. Daly I installed the update on ftp.dante.de as requested. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Sep 17 18:03:27 1996 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 23:00:55 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > From: Enrico Bertolazzi > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 17:10:35 +0100 > > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains: > > version 0.5 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package > version 0.4 of the `easytable' package > version 0.2 of the `easybib' package. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de with the update as requested. Thanks for the contribution. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easybib} package is > a macro package for writing custom bibliography > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Sep 19 02:25:52 1996 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 14:57:06 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pcfonts.zip Rama Porrat writes: > Dear Sir, > I have uploaded that file (pcfonts.zip) onto ftp.tex.ac.uk > This file should replace a file by the same name, located in > tex-archive/languages/hebrew/fonts/pccode I have replaced the file. > I hope this will propagate to other CTAN host, even though it > is not a new file but a replacement. It will do (even though there's only one other CTAN just now). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 19 05:18:43 1996 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:13:47 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: custom-bib update incorrect (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:51:55 +0200 > > Yesterday's update to my package custom-bib contained a small glich in it > that causes it to crash. The mistake is mine. > > I have now put the corrected file into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. I have installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib. > PS: It has always occurred to me that this bundle really belongs in the bibtex > contributions. Perhaps a pointer could be put there directed to the real > location. Done. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Sep 20 13:56:24 1996 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 17:50:51 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: fullpict.sty Bruce Shawyer writes: > I have just seen TUGboat, 17, Number 2 (our departmental copy > ``disappeared'' for a while) and I have discovered the articel by > Berdnikov, Grineve and Turtia, with their comments on my macro > fullpict.sty. I have corrected their first two mentioned ``bugs'' > so that there is only one counter in use no matter how many > pictures are used, and so that it works as I want it to in > minipage, twocolumn and list environments. However, I do want it > to centre automatically. I have installed the new version at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate in due course to ftp.dante.de and the rest of the TeX-world. Thanks for the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 22 06:35:40 1996 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:32:53 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- LGrind (fwd) > From: Michael Piefel > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:58:18 +0200 > > (a) I uploaded to DANTE > (b) the file LGrind.zip > (c) which contains the newest version of the LGrind-package and > (d) should go to support/lgrind replacing the old one completely. I installed the update as requested. Thanks for the submission. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Mon Sep 23 09:15:43 1996 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:04:33 +0200 From: Werner LEMBERG Reply-To: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: CJK 4.0.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) I've just uploaded the latest CJK version to ftp.dante.de . It will be soon available also on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the other CTAN mirrors in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ========================================================================= Version 4.0.0: new: 20-Sep-1996 I did the final step. All CJK encodings now have all NFSS attributes, namely family, series, and shape (represented by \CJK@family, \CJK@series, and \CJK@shape). \CJK@family will be set by entering a CJK environment in the same way as it was done in former versions of this package. \CJK@series and \CJK@shape will (usually) be controlled by the standard NFSS commands (e.g. \slshape, \textbf etc.) To achieve this it was necessary to define (NFSS) font encodings for the CJK package. All CJK font encodings map to NFSS font encodings which start with the letter `C', followed by two digits. Here is a table: Chinese: Bg5 C00 Bg5pmC C01 GB C10 GBpmC C11 GBt C20 GBtpmC C21 CNS1-7 C31-37 Japanese: JIS C40 JISpmC C41 JISdnp C42 JISwn C43 JIS2 C50 SJIS -> kana C49 (additionally) Korean: KS -> hanja C60 -> hangul C61 KSpmC C62 KSHL -> hanjaHL C63 -> hangulHL C64 -> HLsymbolJ C65 -> HLsymbolK C66 Unicode: UTF8 C70 CEF: CEFX C80 CEFY C81 The first digit corresponds to a CJK (input) encoding like Bg5 or JIS, the second digit represents either a CJK font encoding or internal encodings necessary to cover the selected CJK encoding. One consequence of this step is that you have to adapt all .fd files to the new scheme. Look at the example font definition files of the CJK package how to do it. You can't use e.g. `C01' directly! Use the CJK interface (in this example \CJKfontenc[pmC]{Bg5}). Another consequence is that you are now limited to five characters for the family name since it is part of the .fd name (together with the NFSS font encoding): e.g. `fangsong' is not longer allowed. I've renamed this to `fs'. the new font encoding scheme of the HLaTeX package is supported. You can select it with \CJKfontenc[HL]{KS} or \begin{CJK}[HL]{KS}{...} . This is _not_ an emulation of HLaTeX! See CJK.doc for details. poor-man's bold font has been introduced. To do this all occurrences of \symbol has been replaced with the new command \CJKsymbol which honours the \ifCJK@bold@ flag. If set, a character will be printed three times with a small horizontal shift. You can modify this flag with \CJKnormal and \CJKbold. These commands are intended for use with \DeclareFontShape: \DeclareFontShape{C00}{CNS}{m}{n}{<-> CJK * csso12}{} \DeclareFontShape{C00}{CNS}{bx}{n}{<-> CJKb * csso12}{\CJKbold} Additionally four size functions (CJKb, sCJKb, CJKfixedb, sCJKfixedb) has been introduced which are completely identical to its counterparts without the final `b'. The only reason to use them is, as shown in the above example, to make the fifth parameter of \DeclareFontShape for bold series different from the one for medium series (LaTeX2e uses this parameter as a macro name to execute loading-settings, thus they must not be equal). Redefine \CJKboldshift if the default shift value of 0.015em is not optimal for the specific font. support for rubi (= furigana) added. See rubi.doc for details. ttf2pk: TTF specific error handling enabled. Big 5 encoded TTF in format 4 can now be handled. hbf2gf: you can now use environment variables ($FOO or ${FOO}) in the configuration file. Use $$ to get a dollar sign. man pages added. more examples added. REXX scripts bg5latex.cmd etc. (for OS/2) added (contributed by Wonkoo Kim ). teTeX.doc added. changed: * The CJK distribution has been divided into three * packages: * src The sources. Needed for all platforms * bin Binaries compiled with emx for DOS and OS/2. * rest Preformatted documentation (.dvi, .ps, * output from cjk-enc.el) * * ALL FONT DEFINITION FILES HAVE BEEN CHANGED AND RENAMED! * \CJKshape and \CJKencshape renamed to \CJKfamily and \CJKencfamily respectively. For backward compatibility you can still use the old names. Nevertheless, they now modify the font family parameter and no longer the font shape parameter. all *conv.tex and its batch files removed. all converter programs now do not change the number of lines in the output file. * * the UN*X converter batch files now replace the extension * with .cjk instead of appending it. E.g. * test.tex -> test.cjk (instead of test.tex.cjk) * f_name.bat provides a new environment variable %fu% for a UNIX-like path (using `/' instead of `\'). Now you can run bg5latex.bat and the other DOS batch files having a file name with a path as an argument. Please replace all these batch files with the new ones. starting with this version ttf2pk is a direct part of the CJK package. I will maintain it. As a consequence the ttf2pk directory tree has been moved into the utils subdirectory. MakeTeXPK, MakeTTFPK: environment variable ttfdir and hbf2gfdir renamed to TTFDIR and HBF2GFDIR respectively. hbf2gf: sample configuration files now contain TDS compliant directories. ttf2pk: -c option removed which never worked. some redundant code removed. heavily reformatted. errors: * PLEASE RECREATE ALL .TFM AND .PK FILES PRODUCED BY * TTF2PK! * Reason: the width values were resolution dependent. * You should use the InstallFont script or instfont.btm * for this job since the very bug in ttf2pk has not yet * been fixed. Additionally you must install the new * MakeTTFPK script. ttf2pk: endchar didn't work correctly. punctuation characters in KS were not handled correctly. \CJKchar failed sometimes (Jinn S. Yang ). Big 5/SJIS characters failed in headers etc. if used without preprocessor (Jinn S. Yang ). ---End of history.txt--- From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Sep 23 10:48:48 1996 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:37:06 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- knst Jordi Saludes writes: > (a)+(b) > i've just uploaded the file knst.tar.gz in the incoming directory > of ftp.dante.de. > > (c) README in the package follows: > --------------- > This is the package supporting generation and correction of > multiple option tests, as will appear in TUGBoat 17#3: > "Fast and secure multiple option tests". > > The package includes: > - knst.tex: Macro TeX package and style to typeset the tests; > - knd.c: C code for an utility which grades these tests as described in > the paper; > - README: this file; > - foo.tex: Example test file. Uncomment \plainversion to run the > plain version, then run again with the comments in place > to get a test. > ---------------- > > (d) Suggested location: /tex-archive/macros/generic/ > > Yours > > --Jordi Saludes > saludes@grec.upc.es Thanks a lot, I installed the files in macros/generic/knst For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From peb@MPPMU.MPG.DE Wed Sep 25 10:22:11 1996 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:53:47 +0200 From: Peter Breitenlohner To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: pub-tex & co, Version 2.1 CTAN now contains the latest version 2.1 of PubliC TeX/METAFONT/MetaPost and the Dos-TP versions of the utilities: assumes TDS (TeX directory structure), functionality similar to that of web2c/kpathsea run-time support (some basic tex, tfm, ... files, doc files) source (requires TP compiler) with unix make like utilities to generate and install programms executables NO formats etc., those have to be generated CTAN location: systems/msdos/dos-tp/README systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/run*.zip run-time support systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/src*.zip sources systems/msdos/dos-tp/run/exe*.zip precompiled executables changes against previous version 2.0 new includes BibTeX, MetaPost, mpware, and a (still somewhat incomlete) beta test version of eTeX many programs can now read files in unix format (e.g. mounted as network drives via nfs, or ...) small executables named tex, plaintex, latex, that invoke virtex with a fixed default format (plain, latex) or a default format read from the first line of the top-level input file; same for MF and MP. Peter Breitenlohner **** new e-mail: peb@mppmu.mpg.de **** From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Thu Sep 26 06:21:42 1996 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:03:04 +0200 From: Werner LEMBERG Reply-To: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CJK 4.0.0 patch Please apply this patch to the CJK source tree and recompile ttf2pk, otherwise you will not be able to process format 4 Big 5 encoded TrueType fonts (NTU TrueType fonts are _not_ affected). Werner [CJK is a macro package for LaTeX2e to enable processing of Chinese/Korean/Japanese in various encodings] ======================================================================= diff -ur CJK/4_0.0/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c CJK/4_0.0pl1/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c --- CJK/4_0.0/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c Fri Sep 20 04:00:00 1996 +++ CJK/4_0.0pl1/utils/ttf2pk/src/findex.c Wed Sep 25 04:00:01 1996 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ return -1; if (cm->map.cmap4->idRangeOffset[i] == 0) - index1 = cm->map.cmap4->idDelta[i] + ch; + index = cm->map.cmap4->idDelta[i] + ch; else { index1 = cm->map.cmap4->idRangeOffset[i] / 2 + From randhol@stud.ntnu.no Fri Sep 27 03:20:06 1996 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:33:16 +0200 From: Preben Randhol To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: suggestion I just wondered if it was possible to make a database system of the different packages that people upload. If they also upload a file describing their package and if this file was copied to a description-directory, it would be easier to catalogize the different packages. -- Preben Randhol | If a lie is repeated often enough all Tlf: 73940929 (kontor 73593995) | dumb jackasses in the world not only g Epost: randhol@stud.ntnu.no | to believe it, they even swear by it. http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~randhol/ | From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Sep 27 06:09:48 1996 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 11:04:01 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission: koi8 Boris Veytsman writes: > I've just uploaded koi8.tar to dante. It contains the files koi8.sty > (written mostly by Uri Blumenthal and uploaded with his permission), > rawprint.sty and readme. Please install them in the directory > latex/macros/contrib/supported/koi8 with a symlink from the latex209 tree > (the files work both with LaTeX2e and LaTeX2.09). The readme file is > appended. In installed the package macros/latex/contrib/supported/koi8 with a link from macros/latex209/contrib/koi8 Thanks. I append the README file. Rainer Schoepf > > Thanks > > Good luck > > -Boris > > Home page > > PACKAGES KOI8 AND RAWPRINT > > September 24, 1996 > > These packages are intended for typesetting Russian texts. > > 1. Package koi8 (written by Uri Blumenthal with > minor modifications by Boris Veytsman ). > > It performs internal translation from the KOI-8 encoding (de-facto > standard of the UNIX world) to the so called ``alternative encoding'' > used by most Cyrillic packages. You still need one of these packages > for the actual Russian typesetting. The style works with all major > Cyrillic packages: cmcyr, cmcyralt, LH. The usage is very simple: > > In LaTeX2e > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{lh,koi8} > \begin{document} > SOME TEXT IN KOI-8 > \end{document} > > In LaTeX2.09 > \documentstyle{lh,koi8,article} > \begin{document} > SOME TEXT IN KOI-8 > \end{document} > > > Substitute cmcyr or cmcyralt for lh if you use these packages. > > > 2. Package rawprint > > This package is intended for ``quick and dirty'' printing of raw > (i.e. non-TeX) Russian texts by persons who (like me) do not have > Russian printer fonts (but have Cyrillic TeX). It makes #, $, % and & > ``normal'' letters and converts the ``unisex'' quote character " into > Russian-style << and >> quotes. The usage (in LaTeX2e) is: > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{lh,rawprint} > \begin{document} > \input{document_in_alt_encoding.txt} > \end{document} > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{lh,koi8,rawprint} > \begin{document} > \input{document_in_koi8_encoding.txt} > \end{document} > > and the LaTeX2.09 usage should be quite obvious. > > Please note that making % a letter is a rather drastic solution. Since > most LaTeX style files have some comments delimited by the percent > signs, the package rawprint must be invoked as the LAST one. The line > \usepackage{rawprint,lh} will cause you lots of grief. > > Happy LaTeXing in Russian! > > Boris Veytsman From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 2 04:51:55 1996 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 09:35:23 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ChkTeX Jens T. Berger Thielemann writes: > a) ftp.dante.de > b) ChkTeX.tar.gz (*not* chktex.tar.gz) > c) Finds typographic/syntax errors in LaTeX. Interfaces with > AUC-TeX. > d) support/chktex > > As usual, please let the main README file auto-display when entering the > directory. Thanks. Installed as requested. Thanks. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 2 08:43:06 1996 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 12:36:07 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: BIDS -> BibTeX Anthony Stone writes: > David Carlisle suggested that I should submit my bids.to.bibtex perl script to > the CTAN, since requests for such a thing come up quite often. The documentation of the script is... > #!/usr/bin/perl > # > # Usage: bids.to.bibtex > # > # will take input from a BIDS email message in in the source directory > # $sourcedir and produce a BibTeX bibfile .bib in the output directory > # $bibdir. The BIDS message should have been generated using one of the > # downloading formats. > # If both files are to be in the current directory, replace the definitions > # below by > # $sourcedir = ""; > # $bibdir = ""; > # If the output file exists, the new references are appended to it. Otherwise > # a new file is created. > # > # Some work will be needed to deal with capitalization and accents in the > # BibTeX file. > # > # This version assumes perl 5, and it might not work under perl 4. I have installed the file on CTAN as biblio/bibtex/contrib/bids/bids.to.bibtex It'll propagate to ftp.dante.de and to CTAN mirrors in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 2 12:31:07 1996 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 17:22:59 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- doublestroke Olaf Kummer writes: > I have uploaded to the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de > the file > ds2.tar.gz > (A file ds.tar.gz was uploaded, too, but might have been > corrupted during transmission. Delete that file.) > The file contains > version 1.0 > of my package > doublestroke > of which version 0.1 is currently found on CTAN at > /pub/tex/fonts/doublestroke > The old files are obsolete and should be removed, > especially > dsrom10.300gf and > dsrom12.300gf > The other files can be replaced by the new files contained > in the gziped tar-file. Thanks, I installed the update. For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf > >From the readme: > This font is based on the Computer Modern Roman family of fonts > by D. E. Knuth. It is useful for typesetting the mathematical > symbols for the natural numbers (N), whole numbers (Z), > rational numbers (Q), real numbers (R) and complex numbers (C). > > Thanks for your effords. > Olaf > -- > Olaf Kummer, Rotdornstieg 24, 25469 Halstenbek, Germany > Tel: 04101-43178 / 040-5494-2245 Fax: 040-5494-2246 > mailto:kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de > http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer.html From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct 4 06:21:48 1996 Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 11:05:47 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Soyombo for LaTeX Oliver Corff writes: > Being suggested by Robin Fairbairns to do so, I uploaded the Soyombo for LaTeX > package to ftp.dante.de:/incoming in the form of a zipped archive soyombo.zip. > > The package consists of five or six files providing the Soyombo script for > LaTeX users. There are one style file, one user documentation, two metafont > sources and two font metrics files. > > The URL http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Soyombo/overview.Soyombo.html > will give you a detailed overview. > > A suggested directory would be language/mongolian/soyombo. > > Thank you very much for your attention, > > Sincerely yours, > > Oliver Corff. > -- > Dr. Oliver Corff e-mail: corff@zedat.fu-berlin.de > c/o Wuertz Wielandstr. 20 telephone: ++ 49 - 30 - 852 93 75 Thanks a lot, I installed the files as proposed. Would you care to supply a short README file that we could add to that directory? For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct 5 09:08:54 1996 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 13:04:50 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: MikTeX 1.05 for Win32-PowerPC Andreas Berz writes: > I uploaded a MikTeX-Package for Windows-NT on the PowerPC-hardware-platform. > The author of the package, Christan Schenk , > suggested me to distribute the whole package (not only the PowerPC-binaries) > if i cannot follow his version steps. > > -I uploaded the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the directory /incoming/miktexppc > > -I uploaded the following files in the directory 'miktexppc': > > install.exe MiKTeX Installation Utility > unzip.exe UnZip Utility > bibtx105.zip BibTeX input files > doc105.zip Documentation > dvips105.zip dvips input files > exe105p.zip PowerPC-based executable files > fonts105.zip Font source files (CM & DC) > latex105.zip LaTeX2e base distribution and format file > mf105.zip METAFONT input files > mkind105.zip MakeIndex input files > tex105.zip Plain TeX input files and format file > tfm105.zip Font metric files > vf105.zip Virtual font files > vga105.zip Packed raster font files for the screen > cx105.zip Packed raster font files for 300dpi laser printers > src105.zip Source code > Readme.1st Readme from the author (guide to install) > News Version History > Readme.ppc Readme for PowerPC-Version of MikTeX > > -I suggest to place the file at the following place in the CTAN directory > hierarchy: > /tex-archive/systems/win32ppc/miktex or ... > /tex-archive/systems/win32/powerpc/miktex After a little thought about this (in the context of the structure of other parts of the systems/ tree), I decided to upload the directory as systems/win32/miktexppc It should make its way from here pretty soon. > Viele Gruesse aus dem Schwarzwald, Andreas Berz. Thanks, from the rather less tree-covered county of Cambridgeshire, for the upload! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Oct 5 10:21:59 1996 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 14:19:24 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- compsci package Matt Swift writes: > I have uploaded > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/compsci.sty > > which should replace > > ctan://macros/latex/contrib/supported/monster/compsci.sty > > ==== > > Version 0.92 (beta) replaces version 0.91 (beta). > > The compsci package now works with the latest moreverb package. > (Compsci depends on moreverb and redefines one of moreverb's internal > commands.) > > % \begin{abstract} > % The \package{compsci} package provides \LaTeX{} macros for writing about > % \LaTeX{} macros. Most often this package will be used to supplement the > % \class{ltxdoc} class, but it can be used with other classes. > % > % In this initial version, there are a few cosmetic bugs, some minor bugs, > % and some features break if you are not using the \class{ltxdoc} class. > % \end{abstract} I have installed the revised version as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 8 06:48:33 1996 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 11:09:54 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Submission of a WinNT/95 WMF -> EPS converter Wolfgang Schulter writes: > I've uploaded the arj-compressed archive WMF2EP03.ARJ to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > Purpose of the program is to simplify Windows Metafile Graphics (WMF) > containing either vector-images or bitmaps into Encapsulated PostScript > format having tight bounding-boxes (WinNT and Win95) at exactly the same > size as the WMF-originals. Thanks for your upload. I installed the files wmf2ep03.zip readme.txt in directory support/wmf2eps For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct 8 09:20:06 1996 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 13:10:15 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Putting StarTeX on CTAN Dag Langmyhr has submitted the StarTeX macros, that he presented at TUG'96 in Dubna, to CTAN. The README says (among other things): This is the StarTeX package, a TeX format designed to help students write short reports and essays. It provides the user with a suitable set of commands for such a task. It is also more robust than plain TeX and LaTeX. For more information, see the documentation files [...] Thanks for the submission; I have installed the macro set in a single directory as macros/startex This was at ftp.tex.ac.uk; they should propagate in modertely short order. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct 8 12:59:01 1996 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 16:47:18 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Statistics of operation, ftp.tex.ac.uk, September 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Sat Aug 31 1996 TO Mon Sep 30 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 316090 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 34681838134 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 9878 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 1083807442 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- 1 199 0.2 KB/s 0.00 0.00 Sat Aug 31 1996 4164 599145166 6.4 KB/s 1.32 1.73 Sun Sep 1 1996 6304 873653690 7.1 KB/s 1.99 2.52 Mon Sep 2 1996 9648 1029529573 4.4 KB/s 3.05 2.97 Tue Sep 3 1996 7239 1389216134 6.8 KB/s 2.29 4.01 Wed Sep 4 1996 13324 1764159540 6.4 KB/s 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Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 62276 18665911016 19.70 53.82 TeX Informational Files 4233 6208845265 1.34 17.90 macros 69615 2692614361 22.02 7.76 fonts 91428 2180884319 28.92 6.29 info 9100 1945913853 2.88 5.61 support 24448 1641417161 7.73 4.73 tools 7880 318380603 2.49 0.92 dviware 9744 278735249 3.08 0.80 language 10272 115488046 3.25 0.33 graphics 6449 115216601 2.04 0.33 Informational Files 142 114329703 0.04 0.33 web 7849 97999423 2.48 0.28 biblio 3888 96154896 1.23 0.28 help 1968 72877304 0.62 0.21 digests 4775 57073865 1.51 0.16 From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE Tue Oct 8 15:43:51 1996 Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 18:57:14 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Mainz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCE: fc (aFrican Computer Modern) fonts version 1.3 The fc fonts (LaTeX T4 encoding) version 1.3 are now installed on ftp.dante.de in tex-archive/fonts/jknappen/fc and will propagate to the mirror sites soon. The new release contains: o Bug fixes to most bugs reported in the last two years o A more complete distribution, including ready-mf files and tfm files If you already have the fc fonts, please recompute them completely. There are minor differences affecting the tfm files, however, if you don't try hard they'll leave your line and page breaks intact. The old version (which was located in tex-archive/fonts/fc) has been deleted. --J"org Knappen From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct 9 04:04:15 1996 Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 08:52:03 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to aguplus on CTAN (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: Update to aguplus on CTAN > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:43:28 +0200 > > Greetings, > > I have just placed update files for the aguplus bundle in the Dante CTAN > server, under incoming/aguplus > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4098 Oct 9 07:38 README.pwd > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 39621 Oct 9 07:37 aguplus.cls > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 39019 Oct 9 07:37 aguplus.sty > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 44106 Oct 9 07:37 aguplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4235 Oct 9 07:37 changes.v15a > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11311 Oct 9 07:39 samplus.tex > > Please copy these to contrib/supported/aguplus, replacing the files of the > same name, and removing changes.v15 Installed as requested. Thanks for the contribution, Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 10 05:38:23 1996 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:15:27 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- chemcono (fwd) > From: Stefan Schulz > Subject: CTAN Submission -- chemcono > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:30:10 +0100 > > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de the files > chemcono.sty > drftcono.sty > example.sty > in the incoming/chemcononew directory. Due to an error of mine, an > probably wrong version has been uploaded to incoming/chemcono. > Please delete incoming/chemcono. > It replaces the old version of chemcono in > macros/latex/contrib/supported > > Description: > LaTeX style file for using compound numbers > in chemistry documents. It works like > \cite and the \thebibliography, using \fcite > and \theffbibliography instead. It allows compound > names in documents to be numbered and does not > affect the normal citation routines. > Very helpful for writing chemistry papers. > This style does: > - Compound-numbering. Any compound gets a > number using \fcite, bold face as > default. This number is printed every time you type \fcite. > - The compounds are numbered according to > the entries in the \theffbibliography. > - The \ffbibliography generates an chapter with > the heading 'Compound numbers'. > Dr. Stefan Schulz Thanks for the submission; I installed the upgrade as requested. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 05:05:58 1996 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:53:42 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN update to natbib (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: CTAN update to natbib > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:33:36 +0200 > > I have uploaded some update files for my package natbib to the Dante CTAN > server, in the incoming directory: > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11548 Oct 11 08:28 README.v64 > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 142997 Oct 11 08:28 natbib.dtx > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1596 Oct 11 08:28 natbib.ins > > Could you please copy them to the proper directory: > macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > > replacing the files of the same name and removing README.v63. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 05:34:07 1996 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:21:13 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- mathcomp (fwd) > From: Tilmann Boess > Subject: CTAN Submission -- mathcomp > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:48:18 +0200 > > I've uploaded a small LaTeX2e package on CTAN. > > (a) site: ftp.dante.de:/incoming > > (b) file: mathcomp.zip > > (c) intention: The package provides access to some interesting chars > of the Text Companion fonts (TS1 encoding) in math mode. > > (d) recommendated placing: I suggest to put the unpacked files (that > are `mathcomp.dtx' and `mathcomp.ins') to the same directory that > holds the textcomp package: `fonts/psfonts/ts1'. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathcomp with a symbolic link from fonts/psfonts/mathcomp to this directory. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 11 05:57:19 1996 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:44:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ConcProg > a) ftp.tex.ac.uk > b) ConcProg.tar.gz > c) > < ConcProg class > > > This class provides necessary macros to prepare a (classical) concert > programme. The files provided (so far) are: > > o ConcProg.cls: class definition file, > o Programme.tex: a sample of programme > > d) tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ I have duly installed this as macros/latex/contrib/supported/concprog at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Oct 11 08:45:21 1996 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 13:21:05 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN update to natbib (fwd) > From: daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de (P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany) > Subject: Re: CTAN update to natbib (fwd) > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:02:44 +0200 > > I overlooked some additional files in my natbib update this morning. They are > plainnat.bst > unsrtnat.bst > abbrvnat.bst > which I have put in incoming/natbib. Could you please copy them to the natbib > directory too. Done as requested Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 11 12:19:01 1996 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:07:47 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: new table colour package David Carlisle has submitted the following: > colortbl.dtx > colortbl.ins > Add colour to LaTeX tables. Requires array and color packages. > Process colortbl.ins to produce the package file colortbl.sty. > Process colortbl.dtx to get the documentation (this requires > longtable hhline and dcolumn from the standard `tools' > distribution.) I have installed them on CTAN (at ftp.tex.ac.uk in the first instance) in directory macros/contrib/supported/carlisle Thanks, David Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Oct 14 13:42:20 1996 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 18:32:29 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission (fwd) > From: Axel Kielhorn > Subject: CTAN submission > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:45:40 +0100 > > I have uploaded a new version of my wasysym package to ftp.dante.de. > > It corrects some problems with T1 encoding and math mode. > > Please move it to macros/latex/contrib/supported/wasysym Done as requested. Thanks for the submission, Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team From l44@IWD.UNI-BREMEN.DE Tue Oct 15 04:27:41 1996 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:23:58 +0200 From: Roland Weibezahn To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Announce: xtem X11-TeX-Menu 5.23 Dear xtem users, We have finished the new version (xtem_TeXMenu.5.23) of "xtem", an X11-TeX-menu which runs with the new Tcl/Tk/TclX (Tcl7.5/ and Tcl7.6-beta1) as well as with the old version (Tcl7.4). In addition to adapting xtem to the new Tcl/Tk, we have done errror corrections and added new features, such as: - installation (and maintenance of the logfiles) is much easier with the (new) installation procedure, - (optional) logfile analyze after TeX run, you can then click at each error message (incl. overfull/underfull boxes) in order to edit the texfile at the corresponding position, - "quick&dirty" button for quick TeXing and previewing of a small text fragment (including preamble), - the edit file can be selected from other directories than the main file, - (optional) vertical scrollbars for the text widgets, - revision of all bindings (conforming behaviour: actions are done at button release), - LaTeX syntax got it's own button now. Most setting files from older versions of xtem may be kept unchanged: - mkcommand.vst must be updated - texfmt.vst should be updated to enable "quick&dirty" - logform.vst one line concerning logfile analyze can/should be added You will find all files on our file server: http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html or ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu.5.23.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5eng.ps.gz ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tex/xtem.v5/xtem_texmenu_5ger.ps.gz Here you may also find the sources: Tcl7.5, Tk4.1, TclX7.5.2 ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tcl7.4p2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tk4.0p2.tar.g ftp://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/pub/tcl/tclX7.4a-p1.tar.gz We have uploaded the new xtem version to the neosoft server into "/pub/tcl/incoming/", and it's already mirrored to the CTAN servers, so you also may get all the material from ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/NEW/xtem_* and ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/support/xtem_texmenu/xtem.v5/* and the other CTAN servers. For those who don't know xtem_TeXMenu up to now, we give a short overview: xtem provides for a simple and comfortable graphical user interface to control the following facilities: - file and directory selection, directory creation, - editor (vi, emacs, ...) including additional windows for the LaTeX-syntax (using hypertext) and examples, - TeX, LaTeX, ..., - previewer (ghostview, xdvi, TkDvi, ...), - printing (including comfortable printer selection, ...), - syntax and spelling check, - makeindex, - bibtex, - additional programs as required, . . . Online help is available for all the buttons and windows by simple mouse click. xtem is written for Unix platforms and has been tested on many systems. Thanks, Roland Weibezahn --- Dr. Roland Weibezahn weibezahn@iwd.uni-bremen.de phone: +49-421-218-3532 University Bremen, IWD, postbox: 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany http://ftp.iwd.uni-bremen.de/xtem/xtem_texmenu.html (the xtem_TeXMenu project) From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Oct 16 08:26:53 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:08:49 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Dierk Walter writes: > im Verzeichnis INCOMING des DANTE-Servers liegt das File TED.ZIP. > Ich bitte darum, diese Datei aufzunehmen. > > TED.ZIP ist die mit PKZIP gepackte neue Version des TED, dassen alte Version > zu finden ist unter > pub/tex/systems/msdos/ted > > Die neue Version enth"alt Vorbereitungen f"ur WINDOWS 3.1 und WINDOWS 95. > M"oglicherweise ist deswegen ein anderer Pfad sinnvoll. > > Abgesehen von den neu hinzugekommenen Dateien sind die Dateinamen gleich > geblieben. "Anderungen gegen"uber der alten Version sind der Datei README > zu entnehmen. README.TED enth"alt wieder eine grunds"atzliche Einf"uhrung in > das Programm. > > Bisher war im oben genannten Verzeichnis MSDOS/TED das File TED.ZIP und > (aus diesem entnommen) das File README.TED. > > V > ielen Dank f"ur Ihre M"uhe, > T > imo Baumann > Dierk Walter > Assistent > Universitaet Bern > Historisches Institut, Abteilung Neueste allgemeine Geschichte > Unitobler, Laenggassstr. 49, CH-3000 Bern 9 > Tel. 0041 (CH) 31 631 8095 > Tel. 0041 (CH) 31 631 4882 > Fax 0041 (CH) 31 631 4410 Please note that CTAN is an english language list. I installed your package as requested. Thanks a lot. For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Wed Oct 16 08:38:49 1996 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:12:12 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- koma.zip -- latexhlp.zip -- lathlp_k.zip Oliver Stenzel writes: > ich habe heute die im Betreff genannten Archive nach > ftp.dante.de/incoming upgeloaded. Es handelt sich um drei Hypertexte > fuer ST-Guide -- lauffaehig unter AtariOS und MagiCMac --, die > Online-Hilfen fuer LaTeX und das KoMa-Script Paket darstellen. Sie sind > am besten unter /tex-archive/systems/atari/latexhlp/ aufgehoben. Bitte > loescht vor dem Verschieben alle dort meine alten vorhandenen Versionen > (lat*.*)! Nuetzlich koennte vielleicht ein link auf > /tex-archive/help/latexhlp sein. Note that CTAN is an english language list. I installed your update as requested, except for the link. I'm not sure that the link is a good idea, as latexhlp is a system specific package. Thanks a lot For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Oct 20 12:01:15 1996 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:55:59 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: akletter (fwd) > From: Axel Kielhorn > Subject: CTAN submission > Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:33:38 +0100 > > I have uploaded a new version of my letter-class for LaTeX2e to > ftp.dante.de/incoming/akletter. > > This *replaces* myletter.cls. > > Please remove the myletter directory and add an akletter directory > instead. Done as requested. Thanks for the submission, Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 07:15:08 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:00:49 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: PMGRAPH.STY, etc. Sasha Berdnikov has submitted to CTAN the three things he talked about at TUG'96 in Dubna. I have now installed all three, and they should make their way to dante and the CTAN mirrors some time soon. The packages are: systems/msdos/utilities/vfcomb A system to support the writers of virtual fonts; this is written in Turbo Pascal, and sources are included -- Sasha invites people to port the package to other platforms than DOS... macros/latex/contrib/supported/mff A package to provide something similar to `multiple master' fonts, but using Metafont; you specify a font by a set of Metafont parameters, and TeX makes up a .mf file to generate the required font; this package is not integrated with NFSS (or MakeTeXTFM) yet, but it's a lot of fun. macros/latex/contrib/supported/pmgraph A set of extensions to LaTeX picture environment, including a wider range of vectors, and a lot more box frame styles Thanks to all the St Petersburg team that created that lot... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From piet@cs.ruu.nl Tue Oct 22 08:08:40 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:01:15 +0200 From: Piet van Oostrum To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: $$$ Cash - Money Cc: postmaster@teleline.teleline.es, postmaster@tsai3.teleline.es Subject: Abuse of email facility The following message appeared on the mailing list CTAN-ANN (Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN ) I consider this to be an abuse of that mailing list, as the mailing list is a closed one. Moreover this is a pyramid scheme which is illegal in some countries, e.g. in the USA where some of the addresses mentioned in the message are located. May I suggest you to take appropriate action to the abusers? Regards and thanks. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 09:04:20 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:57:57 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- vruler.sty Zhuhan Jiang writes: > I have uploaded an upgrade of vruler.sty > to /incoming of ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > vruler.sty is a package for adding a vertical numbering to the > general text so that the text can be properly referenced. The > vertical ruler can be scaled and moved freely. vruler.sty supports > LaTeX and plain TeX. I have done the following: 1) Installed the package as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/vruler.sty 2) Deleted the old version macros/latex209/contrib/misc/vruler.sty 3) Installed a link to the new version from macros/generic/vruler.sty (All this at ftp.tex.ac.uk, to propagate to dante and the mirrors `some time soon'). Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Oct 22 09:07:23 1996 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:02:29 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.1 Dwight Aplevich writes: > The file Circuit_macros4.1.tar.gz has been uploaded into > ftp.tex.ac.uk:incoming. Its expanded contents completely replace the > contents of CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros. > > This sooner-than-normal update contains prototype xfig compatibility, > which might interest a number of people. I have installed the package, overwriting the old release of graphics/circuit_macros Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 24 03:33:07 1996 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:18:59 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis.tgz (fwd) > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:55:50 -0400 > From: "Joel D. Young" > Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis.tgz > > uploaded to : > > ftp.dante.de/incoming > > uploaded > > afthesis.tgz > > What? > > LaTeX2e thesis/dissertation class for > US Air Force Institute Of Technology > > Suggested Location: > > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/afthesis Thanks for the submission. I installed the files as as requested. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:15:06 1996 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:38:14 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission - the package `scale' (fwd) > From: Soren Sandmann Pedersen > Subject: CTAN submission - the package `scale' > Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:31:12 +0200 > > Hello CTAN maintainers, > > I have uploaded a file `scale.zip' to /incoming/ at ftp.dante.de. > > The package scales a document by \sqrt{2}. > This is useful if you are preparing a document on e.g. A5 paper and > want to print on A4 paper to achieve a better resolution. > > I suggest that the package is placed in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/scale/ Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team PS - Yesterday, ftp.dante.de wasn't available due to network problems. AFAIK, a German Telecom digger damaged the cable connecting the University of Heidelberg to the German WIN backbone. Sorry for any inconveniences -rz From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:18:58 1996 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 09:50:54 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission: new oztex-german /LML (fwd) > From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs > Subject: CTAN Submission: new oztex-german /LML > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:59:16 +0100 > > finally the updated > /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german > directory. It's in Heidelbergs /incoming/oztex-german > and should just replace the old one. > > \thanks Lothar (DANTE Mac-Coordinator) I replaced the old version as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 30 09:18:18 1996 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:09:10 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission (fwd) > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:29:55 +1100 > From: Vasantha Saparamadu > Subject: CTAN Submission > > I have made the following CTAN submission > > (a) site uploaded to: ftp.dante.de > (b) file : /incoming/sinhala_tex.2.1.1.tar.gz > (c) overview : > Replacement for the older version sinhala_tex.2.1.tar.gz in > tex-archive/languages/sinhala Thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From mmehlich@SEMDESIGNS.COM Thu Oct 31 17:42:37 1996 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:19:48 -0600 From: Michael Mehlich To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update of Packages hyper, fp Hello, New versions of my packages fp for fixed point computations in TeX and LaTeX hyper for generating HyperTeX documents with LaTeX2e have been uploaded (a short time ago) to CTAN. The packages can be found under latex/contrib/other/fp latex/contrib/supported/hyper Changes to previous version: fp * increased debug messages for expression evaluation * new email address to report bugs hyper * corrected problem with no hyperanchor occurring on pages with pagestyle empty * added additional option to allow references to pages to go to the top of a page when the pagenumber is at the bottom * added support for HyperTex-references with the package natbib * added perl script to create pdf-files from dvi-files using dvi(h)ps and ghostscripts pdfwriter * new email address to report bugs -- Michael Mehlich email: mmehlich@semdesigns.com Semantic Designs, Inc. voice: 512-250-1018 12636 Research Blvd. #C-214 fax: 512-250-1191 Austin, Texas 78759 www: http://www.semdesigns.com From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 1 04:51:21 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:42:37 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: dinbrief (fwd) > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:04:17 +0100 > From: ry46@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de > Subject: dinbrief > > I have put at ftp.dante.de in /incoming/dinbrief > the following files: > dinbrief.dtx dinbrief.ins announce and readme > > dinbrief is a package to write german letters > following the rules of DIN. > > I recommend to replace the old version in > /macros/latex/contrib/supported/dinbrief. > > Greetings Richard Thanks, I installed the new version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 1 12:41:50 1996 Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 17:35:17 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Usage, ftp.tex.ac.uk, Oct 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Mon Sep 30 1996 TO Thu Oct 31 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 550728 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 45594395647 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 17210 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 1424824864 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Mon Sep 30 1996 9074 1008369181 2.3 KB/s 1.65 2.21 Tue Oct 1 1996 9305 1109036055 2.7 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Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 82149 21819255253 14.92 47.86 TeX Informational Files 5257 6850434530 0.95 15.02 fonts 214707 5515175766 38.99 12.10 support 48597 3512330832 8.82 7.70 macros 91453 2908157177 16.61 6.38 info 15319 2561698952 2.78 5.62 dviware 18903 455208083 3.43 1.00 tools 9180 404602905 1.67 0.89 language 12735 243036332 2.31 0.53 graphics 10858 240845682 1.97 0.53 web 15573 238261434 2.83 0.52 biblio 8269 226684548 1.50 0.50 digests 9046 138411092 1.64 0.30 Informational Files 171 135200625 0.03 0.30 help 2881 127417819 0.52 0.28 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 4 08:52:25 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 10:32:52 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission-vfinst virtual font installer Alan Hoenig writes: > This is version 0.8 of a set of scripts to facilitate > installation of virtual fonts from PostScript outline fonts. > Thanks for your assistance and cooperation! Here is an extract from the file README: > A set of scripts and Perl files comprise vfinst, which aims to make > the installation of families of PostScript outline fonts `virtually' > automatic. When the script is run, the only thing that the virtual > font freak has to supply is a three-character font family designation. > This utility installs fonts either for traditional implementations or > for TDS-compliant systems. (TDS=TeX Directory Structure) In addition > to these modules and TeX, you'll need fontinst and Perl. > > PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT > INSTALLATIONS. I have installed the package as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks, Alan, for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov 4 07:15:48 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:10:14 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Mainz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New package smartmn in macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen I have uploaded a new package smartmn to tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen This package activates the minus sign such that it guesses whether to print as a hyphen or as minus sign in text mode (which is one of the most common typografical errors in LaTeX texts). There is a small drawback of it: the em dash (---) must be entered as \emdash. --J"org Knappen. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Nov 4 09:15:51 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 15:09:52 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: mlbib10 for LaTeX2e Wenzel Matiaske writes: > I have put a style package called mlbib for LaTeX2e on the the CTAN > into the directory incoming (mlbib10.zip). The package supports > multilingual bibliographies. Please put the package into a directory > under the LaTeX2e tree. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot, I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/mlbib For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Nov 4 11:45:24 1996 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 16:40:26 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Signing off the CTAN-Ann list The CTAN-Ann list is no longer maintained at SHSU (which has withdrawn from CTAN operations). To sign off from the list, you should send mail saying signoff ctan-ann to listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Sending mail to SHSU (as several subscribers have done recently) merely deposits a mail message in my inbox. Every so often I translate those mails into commands to remove people from the list at Heidelberg. However, I'm a busy man, and I give that work rather low priority. If you want to be removed from the Heidelberg list, *don't* mail me (directly or indirectly [via SHSU]), mail the listserv! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 8 08:13:32 1996 Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:52:06 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- PSfrag 3.0, major release Michael Grant writes: > I've uploaded a brand spankin' new version of PSfrag into > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/psfrag.zip to replace the version now found in > /pub/archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag. > > PSfrag is a set of macros and a PostScript header which allows LaTeX > constructions (equations, picture environments, etc.) to be precisely > superimposed over Encapsulated PostScript figures. The user can use his/her > favorite drawing tool to create an EPS figure, placing simple text "tags" > where each replacement is to be placed. PSfrag will automatically remove > those tags from the figure and replace them with the LaTeX construction > that the user specifies, properly aligned, scaled, and/or rotated. > > This version marks a major reimplementation of PSfrag, with the most > notable change being the elimination of the ps2frag script. All scanning > and replacement functions have been fully integrated into LaTeX and/or > PostScript, so a preprocessing step is no longer necessary. > > It has been confirmed to work with Tomas Rokicki's dvips and Y&Y's > dvipsone; however, we hope (!) that it will work with any driver that is > fully supported by the LaTeX2e graphics package. We hope that people with > other drivers will try it out and suggest changes, if necessary (or at > least submit effective bug reports). It is also designed to interact well > with PS-aware DVI previewers, such as xdvi. > > A 10-page user's guide, with examples, is supplied with the package. Thanks, Michael. I've installed the update here at ftp.tex.ac.uk; it should propagate fairly soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG Fri Nov 8 10:46:37 1996 Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 08:24:45 -0500 From: bbeeton To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New version of AMS-LaTeX released An interim release of the AMS-LaTeX version 1.2 macro collection has been posted. This release fixes a number of bugs, and documents others that have not yet been fixed, but are known and are on the list for attention when time becomes available. The documentation has been extensively revised and users are requested to pay careful attention to the READ.ME file. In particular, AMS-LaTeX 1.2 now requires a version of LaTeX2e no earlier than December 1994. The canonical home site for this collection is e-math.ams.org for ftp, or at http://www.ams.org/tex for those who prefer a Web connection. The collection has also been mirrored onto CTAN (locations shown are relative to the root of the tex archive at the particular site): location on e-math: location on CTAN: /pub/tex/amslatex under macros/latex/packages/amslatex The other AMS collections are available from the same AMS servers and have now been installed on CTAN in these new locations: location on e-math: location on CTAN: /pub/tex/amsfonts under fonts/amsfonts /pub/tex/amsltx11 under macros/latex209/contrib/amslatex /pub/tex/amstex under macros/amstex At CTAN, the changes have been made at ftp.tex.ac.uk and ftp.dante.de; they will propagate to the mirrors in due course. Only the AMS-LaTeX collection has been updated; some minor changes are under construction in the AMSFonts and AMS-TeX collections, and a separate announcement will be made when these are posted. From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 12 10:51:45 1996 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:38:06 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Yplan97 Dick Nickalls writes (an embarrassingly long time ago): > Enclosed are the three Yplan files for CTAN. Thanks for > taking them. If you could manage to mention it on your > CTAN update newsletter then I would be grateful (? copy > part of the .doc file?). > > The three files are > Yplan97.doc > Yplan97A.tex > Yplan97B.tex These files (which continue the service Dick started to offer last for calendar year 1996) are now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/latex/contrib/other/yplan97 Thanks again, Dick, for the submission. I'll try and remember to delete the yplan96 directory around the end of this year... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 12 11:27:44 1996 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:17:50 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- advdate.sty Zdenek Wagner writes: > I have just uploaded the following file: > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/advdate.sty > > Description: > This package contains macros which can add specified number of days > to the current date (as specified in \today) and print it. Some other > macros are also provided. It is intended for use e.g. in invoices > payable within 14 days from today etc. > > Suggested location: > CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/other I've installed it as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/advdate.sty Thanks for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team PS -- please address upload mail to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de (ctan-mgr@shsu was never the right place for it, and we're not using SHSU at any time when we can avoid it just now). From ressler@COUGAR.JPL.NASA.GOV Tue Nov 12 14:45:00 1996 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:56:20 -0800 From: Mike Ressler To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Confusion in yinit font directory Hello, I believe this query is most appropriate for the ctan-ann list: I am wondering if there are a mixed up set of files running around in the yinit font directory. Specifically I am worried about the following: on ftp.tex.ac.uk in .../fonts/gothic/yinit, these files appear to be from Andreas Schrell's patched version yinitas. There is no yinit.mf file. In the teTeX 0.4 distribution, these patched files also appear, but there is also a yinit.mf file from Yannis Haralambous' original set and this old file seems to be used in the current mfnfss package. Back in the old days, I knew what the differences between the original and patched versions were; I thought it was more than just the yinit.mf file. Can anyone set me straight on just what "yinit" should be? I ask because 1) I just installed teTeX, 2) a simple macro for drop caps with yinit(as) doesn't work anymore, and 3) I got hopelessly confused trying to fix things up when I noticed the inconsistency. Any clarification will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Mike Ressler ressler@cougar.jpl.nasa.gov From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Thu Nov 14 04:37:59 1996 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:14:57 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: file upload (Cambridge) David Carlisle writes: > The macros/plain/graphics files which give users of plain TeX access > to the LaTeX graphics and related packages have been extended to > provide psfrag.tex, a plain TeX interface to the recently released > psfrag version 3.0. I have installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Thu Nov 14 16:18:33 1996 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:13:41 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission --- RomanianTeX 1.3R (fwd) > From: Adrian Rezus > Subject: CTAN submission --- RomanianTeX 1.3R > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:21:54 +0100 > > 1. A few moments ago I have uploaded the file > > RomanianTeX.zip > > in directory /incoming at site `ftp.dante.de'. The zip-archive > contains the Romanian TeX package, version 1.3R. > > 2. This is a public release of RomanianTeX v 1.3R <29.10.1996>: > a LaTeX2e package for type-setting Romanian in a multi-lingual > TeX environment. RomanianTeX 1.3R supports LaTeX2e and the NFSS, > version 2. > > 3. The archive bundles together the following files: > > readme.txt : General end-user information > manifest.txt : Table of contents > hyphen-x.cfg : LaTeX2e hyphen configuration [eXample] > rohyphen.tex : Romanian hyphen patterns [version 1.1] > romanian.dtx : LaTeX2e archive [contains .sty and .drv] > romanian.ins : LaTeX2e installation file > > (Missing from this distribution, so far, is the file: > > romanian.doc: End-user documentation. > > This file will be available at a later date, likely before the > end of the year. Anyway, the basic end-user documentation can > be retrieved from file `readme.doc'. The document `germdoc.tex' > [CTAN ref.: /pub/tex/languages/german] might be also useful.) > > 4. The package should be very likely located on CTAN in directory > > /pub/tex/languages/romanian > > possibly in a sub-directory `RomanianTeX' (since there are also > other contributions in the sub-directory `romanian'). Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in languages/romanian/RomanianTeX as suggested. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 03:06:11 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:53:29 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submision - LaTeX-CAD (fwd) > From: John Leis > Subject: CTAN Submision - LaTeX-CAD > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:44:58 +1000 > > I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de, directory /incoming a file called > latexcad18.zip. It contains a small update on the latexcad package. Please > replace the existing files under systems/msdos/latexcad with this new file > (size 457 853 bytes). Thanks for the contribution. I replaced the old file as requested; the new version will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Ha! I'm working really fast - some of the files have a change date of 15-Nov, 11:25 while I installed the archive on 15-Nov, 08:45 ;-) Such are the wonders of time zones ... Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 05:19:19 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:03:01 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- Update for pIq.mf (fwd) > From: Olaf Kummer > Subject: CTAN Submission -- Update for pIq.mf > Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:55:35 +0100 > > I have uploaded a new version of pIq.mf (metafont for > the Klingon language with okuda orthography) currently > located in /tex-archive/fonts/okuda to the ftp.dante.de > incoming directory. Additionally a small sample file > pIq.tex is provided. > > Only the ligtable of the font has changed. It is now possible to > enter all Klingon words with the original Okrand spelling. The > ligtable will convert the inputs tlh, ng etc. correctly to one > glyph. > > I am not the original creator of this font. He (Mark Shoulson) > has been informed and has given permission for the upload. > I suggest that new version is placed in the directory > /tex-archive/fonts/okuda/modified > in order to emphasize its tentative status. It will move to > the directory fonts/okuda after some testing and after the final > approval by Mark Shoulson. I have installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. They will soon propagate to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Fri Nov 15 07:25:06 1996 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:10:40 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission fromGUST.tar.gz Staszek, > Finally I decided to upload the stuff concerning Polish language to CTAN, > as well as some works prepared by the members of the Polish TeX Users Group > GUST. It's the first time I'm doing it. I'm doing my best but I'm sorry if > it is not done as expected. ;-) > > I would like to let you know that I maintain the GUST ftp server which is > a selected subset of CTAN archives: > ftp.gust.org.pl:/pub/TeX/ > or ftp.pg.gda.pl:/pub/TeX/ > > In order to set up the new archive the following actions are expected > from your side. Thanks for your huge contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested except when noted (i.e. when I decided to use choose a different directory structure): > 1) First of all, please remove obsolete contents of the following directories, > yes ALL contents: > > language/polish/ removed with the exception of the symbolic link to macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek > support/psview/ > > and the file: > > language/hyphenation/pohyph.tex > > 2) Here is the list of files I have uploaded to DANTE with recomended placing: > > language/polish/* > The Polish formats for Plain, LaTeX2.09, LateX2e, hyphenation patterns, > sources of Polish fonts and TFM files. > > language/hyphenation/plhyph.tex > The `official' and _proper_ Polish patterns installed as a symolic link to language/polish/plhyph.tex > macros/TeX-PS/bop-hax.tex > macros for landscape, mirror etc. of TeX documents > > macros/TeX-PS/epsfx.tex > epsf.tex/sty extension, e.g. draft printing of bounding boxes > > macros/TeX-PS/trans.tex > easy transformations of PS objects, scaling, rotation, etc. > > macros/TeX-PS/cmyk-hax/* > TeX-PS macros for color separation and substitution > > macros/TeX-PS/poligraf* > page preparation for prepress, color separation, > crop-marks, color and gray scale bars, booklet preparation, etc. > > IMHO, the macros/TeX-PS block is the right new place for the stuff > concerning TeX and PS > > macros/generic/tap070.zip > macros/generic/tap070.readme > a TeX package for typesetting tables; it exploits some > possibilities offered by PostScript. Easy and powerfull! installed in macros/generic/tap/ > support/ps_conv/* > a PostScript program for converting one-page PostScript files > into EPS (encapsulated PostScript) files acceptable by > CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R). > > support/ghostscript/ps_view/* > Fast and easy previewing of PS documents! > a PostScript preamble providing an interactive environement > for previewing PostScript documents. The current version > can drive Ghostscript 4.03 interpreter and assumes conformance > of the document to the Adobe PostScript structuring conventions. > Batch files provided for DOS, however ps_view can be adapted > to any operating system. installed as support/ps_view/ because support/ghostscript is mirrored from another site > I prefer such a placement because of close relationship to GhostScript. > > graphics/MF-PS/epstomf/ > graphics/MF-PS/mftoeps/ > MFTOEPS: a METAFONT package for generating (encapsulated PostScript) files > readable by CorelDRAW!(R), Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Fontographer(R). > METAFONT writes PostScript code to a LOG-file, and from the LOG-file > the code can be extracted by either TeX or AWK. DOS batch files, > TeX source, and AWK source are placed in the subdirectory PROGS. > > EPSTOMF: a tiny AWK script for converting EPS files into MF lingo. > EPS files should conform the conventions of the MFTOEPS package. > Such files are generated, e.g., by a Ghostscript utility which > can be found in a directory ../PS/PS_CONV. > > ROEX: a set of METAFONT macros for accomplishing operations known > as `removing overlaps' and `expanding stroke.' It can work > with ``normal'' METAFONT programs, but is meant mainly for > using with MFTOEPS; in this context it seems most natural. > > PROGS: a directory containing DOS batch files, AWK and TeX programs > used by the packages listed above. > > Thank you for your excelent work on maintaining CTAN archives. > > On behalf of GUST Management, > Chears, > > Staszek Wawrykiewicz > > Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From staw@eti.pg.gda.pl Sat Nov 16 04:07:56 1996 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 03:24:54 +0100 From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission fromGUST.tar.gz > Thanks for your huge contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de > as requested except when noted (i.e. when I decided to use choose a > different directory structure): Great, thank you. > removed with the exception of the symbolic link to > macros/latex/contrib/other/ogonek OK. > installed as a symolic link to language/polish/plhyph.tex OK. > installed in macros/generic/tap/ OK. However it is a problem, only same people knows what's `tap' and since this package is really important for TeXers (it is not my personal opinion), it's work ``blessed'' by prof. Fergusson, Phil Taylor, Kees van der Laan, so I would suggest macros/generic/tables/ as a main work concerning tables in (plain)TeX. > installed as support/ps_view/ because support/ghostscript is mirrored > from another site OK. I will try to include ps_view in standard GhostScript distribution. Another contribution is in my plans. Thanks for cooperation. Chears, Staszek Wawrykiewicz From zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Nov 18 11:56:02 1996 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:36:26 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- syngen (fwd) > From: Jens Kloecker > Subject: CTAN Submission -- syngen > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:19:17 +0000 > > I uploaded at ftp.dante.de the file syngen.tar.gz. > > The files of this gzipped tar archive should completely replace > the contents of tex-archive/contrib/syngen. > > +----------------------------------+------------------------------+ > | Jens Kl"ocker | Tel.: +49 6221-487-904 | > | Springer-Verlag Heidelberg | Fax: +49 6221-487-967 | > | Journal Production Department II | e-mail: kloecker@springer.de | > +----------------------------------+------------------------------+ Thanks, I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de. It will soon spread to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. >From the README file: : Syngen: is a tool for generating syntax diagrams from BNF. The diagrams : are using the LaTeX picture mode and can therefore be integrated : in every LaTeX2e document. : : Version: 0.4, but fairly stable Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 22 08:50:31 1996 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:34:20 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- recipe.cls Maurizio Moreti has submitted some macros for setting recipes. The readme says: > The file "recipe.cls" is a LaTeX-2e class file to typeset recipes; > an example is included, in form of an input file "sample.tex" and > of the final PostScript file "sample.ps". I am sorry, but the > example is in Italian; but, what the general user may be interested > in, is the page layout and not real recipes :-) . > > The PostScript file requires Bookman (in the printer, or in > GhostScript) and BrushScript-Italic (included as a .pfa font in > sample.ps); this last font, that I have contributed a few years > ago, is available on CTANs in /tex-archive/fonts/brushscr with > all its .tfm, .fd and .vf files. > > All of these files are public domain; but the author will gladly > receive comments and all your modifications. I have installed all of this stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk in directory macros/latex/contrib/other/recipe Propagation to other places as and when the net sees fit... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Nov 22 13:03:33 1996 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:46:15 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Ltxinput.zip Jim Green writes: > Description: Ltxinput is an MSDOS utility which may add a little extra > functionality to your favourite LaTeX shell. Ltxinput recursively > searches a file for input (and include) statements, writing a list of > files which are input to STDOUT and to a batch file which sets an > environmental variable LTXINPUT to point to this filelist. > The C source, MSDOS binary, documentation and test files are > included in the distribution. I have put the zip file of this contribution into a new directory support/ltxinput/ on ftp.tex.ac.uk I took the liberty of extracting the readme.txt from the zip file and putting that separately into the same directory. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 26 10:03:51 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:49:21 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: concrete.sty Jim Hefferon submitted this quickie a little while back, and I find I hadn't installed it. The code's commentary on itself is: % It is an FAQ on comp.text.tex that people look on CTAN for a style % with this name. Seems reasonable. They are always advised to % \usepackage the two packages below. So here is a wrapper style % to do that. I have installed the file as macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/concrete.sty Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Nov 26 08:53:08 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:10:25 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Chris Walshaw writes: > I have just uploaded version 1.6 of abc2mtex to ftp.tex.ac.uk in > /incoming/abc2mtex. The files are: > README > Install.mac > MacABC1.6.hqx > Install.pc > abc2mtex.zip > Install.unix > abc2mtex1.6.tar.gz > INTRO.html > INTRO.txt > usrguide.ps > abc.txt > Changes > > and I think they should live in /tex-archive/support/abc2mtex of CTAN. > The tar, hqx and zip files duplicate each other to a certain extent > and do not need unpacking. I have replaced the existing version on CTAN with this new upload. Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Nov 26 09:27:40 1996 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:08:00 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Neue TSCONFIG Version (fwd) > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:28:15 +0100 (MET) > From: Dirk Nitschke > Subject: Re: Neue TSCONFIG Version > > TSconfig kann auch auf CTAN abgelegt werden! Thanks, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in support/TeXshell/tsconfig. >From the readme file: : This directory contains the zip-archive TSCONFIG.ZIP which stores : the program TSCONFIG.EXE and friends. The tsconfig programm tries to : make the confguration of the TeXShell by J. Schlegelmilch easier, : especially if you have a lot of computers with different processors. : The program reads a definition file which is a modified version of a : configuration file for the TeXShell. The definition file contains : conditions which tell TSCONFIG.EXE whether to transfer the following : data into the TeXShell configuration file or not. This means that the : definition file is a generic configuration file and TSCONFIG.EXE decides : which parts are needed for your system depending on your processor, : coprocessor, existing and non-existing files, defined and undefined : variables. In addition TSCONFIG.EXE supports templates as part of the : definition file. Their expansion is written to the resulting : configuration file. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Nov 27 07:12:23 1996 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:59:41 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Psfrag 3.01 installed David Carlisle has installed a revised psfrag and I have installed it at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag >From the Announce file in the distribution: > A brand-spankin' new version of PSfrag, version 3.01, for LaTeX2e can be found > at CTAN sites in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag. > > PSfrag 3.01 This is a bug fix release, and should be installed over any copy of > PSfrag 3.0 that is out there. In addition, I recommend that you re-typeset any > files on which you have already used PSfrag 3.0. > > For those of you that are slow, and haven't downloaded PSfrag 3.0 yet: PSfrag > 3.x constitutes a near-complete reimplementation of the internals of PSfrag. > Veteran PSfrag users will note the absence of the ps2frag script; that is > because _it is no longer necessary_. > > What is PSfrag? > --------------- > > Many drawing and graphing packages produce output in the Encapsulated > PostScript (EPS) format, but few can easily produce the equations and other > scientific text of which LaTeX is capable. On the other hand, many LaTeX-based > drawing packages are not as expressive or easy-to-use as the many advanced > drawing packages that produce EPS output. > > PSfrag provides the best of both worlds by allowing the user to precisely > overlay Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files with arbitrary LaTeX constructions. > In order to accomplish this, the user places a simple text ``tag'' in the > graphics file, as a ``position marker'' of sorts. Then, using simple LaTeX > commands, the user instructs PSfrag to remove that tag from the figure, and > replace it with a properly sized, aligned, and rotated LaTeX equation. > > The full documentation for PSfrag found in the release contains examples and > usage instructions. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Nov 27 07:51:23 1996 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:43:54 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- eiad.tar.gz Uwe Muench writes: > I uploaded to > > a) ftp.dante.de/incoming. > > b) the file 'eiad.tar.gz' containing the files > eiad/Fbf10.mf > eiad/Fr10.mf > eiad/README > eiad/eiad.dtx > eiad/eiad.ins > > c) From the README: > > --------------------- > This directory contains a LaTeX2e package for an easy and NFSS2-compliant > use of the eiad font family created by Ivan A Derzhanski under > LaTeX2e. > > [...] > The fonts themselves are NOT in this directory. You can find them on > CTAN in the directory tex-archive/fonts/eiad/, so for example in > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/eiad > or ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/eiad > and mirrors of CTAN... > [...] > ----------------------- > > More explanation (What are these files?, Installation,...) in the > README... > > d) I recommend putting my submission to the directory > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/eiad > > Thank you very much, > bye, > Uwe > > -- > Uwe M\"unch, RRZK-RII, Raum 11, Tel: +49-221-478-3391 > http://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/texmf/ WWW-Seite zu TeX > http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~muench/ private WWW-Seite > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public > relations, for nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman Thanks a lot, I installed the files. For the CTAN team Rainer Schoepf From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Wed Nov 27 09:48:08 1996 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:37:37 +0100 From: Gerd Neugebauer To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Announce: cwpuzzle.sty cwpuzzle.sty - A LaTeX package for typesetting crossword puzzles Gerd Neugebauer Since I know only of one additional package for this purpose on CTAN -- named crosswrd.sty -- I will compare it against this package to show the advantages and disadvantages of both packages. I have developed cwpuzzle.sty because I needed to typeset a puzzle which required more features than those provided by crosswrd. The feature I was missing was the inclusion of rectangular regions in the puzzles containing ads or other texts not directly related to the characters to be filled in. I have generalized this requirement by allowing arbitrary rectangles to be left free. Thus it is possible to typeset puzzles which have no rectangular border (See the documentation for examples). Another idea was to have different types of puzzles generated from the same source: - The classical puzzle contains numbers for the words and clues for the words to be filled in. - The numbered puzzle contains numbers in each cell where identical numbers represent identical letters. The goal is to find out which number corresponds to which letter. - The fill-in type of puzzle consists of a grid and a list of words. The goal is to place all words in the grid. crosswrd supports the first type of puzzle only. cwpuzzle supports all of them. The input for both packages is completely different. crosswrd assumes that a user uses this package to develop a puzzle. Thus it is tailored towards a human user. It checks for consistency and requires non-redundant input. (As a unpleasant side effect fragile macros used in clues have to be protected) cwpuzzle needs some redundancy in the input for the sake of flexibility. But it seems quite natural to specify the frame of the puzzle and the clues separately. Especially for those types where no clues are needed at all. cwpuzzle currently assumes that words are terminated by a black block (or the border of the puzzle). crosswrd also supports also the variant where words are terminated by a thicker border. This might also be incorporated into a future release of cwpuzzle. In cwpuzzle it is also possible to specify whether the crossword puzzle or it's solution should be produced (from the same source). Thus it is possible to include the puzzle in one issue of a journal and the solution into another, or to typeset the solution several pages after the puzzle. cwpuzzle provides a larger number of options and hooks which can be used to customize the result. E.g it is possible to modify the size of the boxes or the fonts used as well as the appearance of graphical elements like the black blocks. cwpuzzle is located in the CTAN directory tex-archive/macros/latex/other/gene/crossword run tex on cwpuzzle.ins to produce the package and latex on cwpuzzle.dtx to get the documentation (or the Makefile to do both). From xlwy01@uxp1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE Thu Nov 28 17:10:55 1996 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:23:48 +0100 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.0 (Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e) Dear LaTeX2e users, I've uploaded version 4.1.0 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com). It will be soon available in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Happy TeXing Werner PS: The source part will be found unpacked! [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ======================================================================== Version 4.1.0: new: 20-Nov-1996 ttf2pk: a new parameter -e has been introduced for selecting the font encoding; possible values are `Big5' (the default), `EUC' for extended Unix codes (JIS, GB, KS, etc.), `SJIS', and `X'. The last value will treat the TTF file as SJIS encoded but expects start_char in JIS encoding (routines are in coding.{c,h}). a new parameter -r has been introduced for rotating the glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if its value is non-zero. See ttf2pk.1 for details. Some preliminary support for composite glyphs has been included. Since hinting instructions are not supported yet this is only of some academic interest. You can watch the funny results with the mingli system font of the traditional Chinese Windows 3.1 . Support for different horizontal and vertical resolutions has been added. Now you have one more parameter to call ttf2pk: ttf2pk pkname tfmname xres yscale startch nmbch ... Currently you have to change yscale by hand in MakeTTFPK (or makettfp.btm). [yres = xres * scale] The source code has been prepared for pretty-printing with c2cweb. Say `make documentation OS=' to produce it (of course after installing the c2cweb package). You will find precomputed .dvi files in the `rest' part of the CJK package. HSIEH Tung-Han contributed NTeXb5.doc for installing the CJK package under NTeX. hbf2gf: if called in METAFONT-like mode, one additional parameter has been added to allow printers with different horizontal and vertical resolutions: hbf2gf config_file subfont_nmb x_resolution y_scale (y_resolution = x_resolution * y_scale; y_scale must be a real number > 0; currently you must change y_scale by hand in MakeTeXPK/maketexp.btm) hbf2gf will now produce a .pl file even if in METAFONT-like mode. a new config file option `rotation' will rotate the glyphs 90 degrees counter-clockwise if set to `yes'. vertical presentation forms of Big5 punctuation characters added to punctuation tables in CJK.enc . CJKvert.sty for vertical typesetting added. This is an experimental feature! Please read vertical.doc for further details. * MakeTeXPK and friends: * it's no longer necessary to rename TTF files to avoid * underline characters. A configuration file will now be * used (ttf2pk.cfg) which resides in $TTF2PKDIR (usually * $TEXMF/ttf2pk) to describe the various TTF files. * Please rename e.g. ntukai.ttf back to ntu_kai.ttf . * The environment variable $TTFDIR has become obsolete. The teTeX variants of the scripts can now produce tfm files on demand---it's sufficient to simply install the source files of a new font. changed: * rubi.sty has been renamed to ruby.sty; the same is * true for all commands in it: \ruby, \rubyoverlap etc. new version (1.5) of ntu2cjk. hbf2gf: the option `target_size' has been removed. It will be ignored now. under DOS and OS/2 both `\' and `/' will be now recognized as a path separator. ttf2pk: the -s parameter (to select a design size) has been removed. The program now always assume a design size of 10pt. the parameter end_char has been replaced with nmb_of_char (max. 256). begin_char can now be either decimal, hexadecimal (prefix `0x'), or octal (prefix `0'). x_offset and y_offset behave now similar to hbf2gf (and most people would expect it that way): a positive x (y) value shifts right (up); default is zero for both parameters using the default placement as given in the TTF file. The values are no longer integers but real numbers and should be multiples of design size. horz_esc and vert_esc are now real numbers too and should be multiples of design size. you no longer need to use -W, -H, and -D for getting resolution independent .tfm files. ttf2pk now correctly uses the values of the TTF file. * PLEASE RECREATE ALL .TFM (AND .PK) FILES! Sorry for * this inconvenience. I hope it will be the last time. * Due to some optimizations the .pk files are about 5% * smaller now. The TTF part of the source code has been transformed into a library (ttflib); the makefile has been rewritten with a new syntax. Say `make' for details. utils/ttf2pk/README.b5 and INSTALL.bg5 removed. They were out of date. modified MakeTTFPK/MakeTeXPK/InstallFont and makettfp.btm/maketexp.btm/instfont.btm scripts. From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Thu Nov 28 17:14:15 1996 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:30:33 +0100 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCING c2cweb 1.5 If have uploaded a new version of c2cweb. It will be soon available in tex-archive/web/c_cpp/c2cweb Below you'll find the release notes. Werner [c2cweb is a utility to prettyprint C and C++ source files using cweb] ======================================================================== Version 1.5: 10-Nov-1996: new: now based on CWEB 3.4g (June 1996) option -f (to include a format file) added new command /*{}*/ added Makefiles enhanced (a compiling run under djgpp is likely to fail since it's untested. Additionally wildcard expansion is missing---any volunteers to add it are welcome) c2cweb.w more structured new email address changed: runtime binaries has been removed. You should get the emxrsx.zip package of the emTeX distribution instead. minor optical corrections. --- end of history.txt --- From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Fri Nov 29 05:49:26 1996 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 10:35:14 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement LaTeX 1996/12/01 release: Important announcement ================================================ As you may know, a LaTeX release with a nominal date of 1996/12/01 is due for release shortly. This release will now be *delayed* until January 1997, to allow more time for testing the following proposed change. The LaTeX system currently uses some files with `mixed case' names. The `Font Descriptor' files such as T1cmr.fd and the `Output Encoding Definition' files such as T1enc.def These files cause problems on certain common systems. In particular, mixed-case filenames are not allowed in the ISO 9660 CDROM format and do not work correctly if a mono-case file system (such as MSDOS) is mounted onto a case sensitive UNIX file system. This latter example is very common in linux, where the MSDOS and UNIX file systems are often available within the same machine. In the forthcoming release, all these file names will be made lowercase. Thus the two files mentioned above will be named t1cmr.fd and t1enc.def. This change should not affect any LaTeX documents, as they do not refer to these files explicitly; however, it may affect some local configuration files, such as fonttext.cfg, which may be used when making the LaTeX format. Further documentation concerning any required changes will be distributed with the release. The LaTeX system will look for `fd' files first with the new lower case name, and then with the old mixed case name; thus existing collections of fd files should work unchanged with the new system. David Carlisle LaTeX3 project From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Nov 30 10:06:58 1996 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:00:44 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission: MathKit math fonts Alan Hoenig (ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu) writes: > I placed the file mathkit.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming. Please > place it in a place like fonts/utilities/mathkit. Here is the > expalantory README: > > The _MathKit_ package creates math fonts that match > Type1 outline fonts (Times, Palatino, and others) for > typesetting math with TeX. It constructs these fonts by > combining letters and numerals from the outline > fonts with other symbols drawn by Metafont using > parameters that match the outline fonts. Detailed > instructions are found in the file `mathkit.tex', part of > the package. You don't need to know anything about > Metafont or virtual fonts to use this package. > > The package includes parameter templates for building > font families for Times Roman (regular and bold), > Palatino (regular only), and Monotype Baskerville > (regular and semibold). If you choose to make fonts > using the bold templates, you will be able to typeset > bold mathematics as well. MathKit produces style files > for plain TeX and NFSS so you can use your new fonts. Thanks, I've installed the stuff as requested Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Dec 2 02:23:43 1996 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 08:14:19 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission --- supertabular 4.0a (fwd) > From: "Johannes L. Braams" > Subject: CTAN submission --- supertabular 4.0a > Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:54:00 +0100 > > I have uploaded supertabular.zip to ftp.dante.de/incoming. > It contains version 4.0a of the supertabular package. > The source and documentation are now in the same file, supertabular.dtx. > This version requires LaTeX2e. > The contents of the .zip archive should replace the contents of the directory > macros/latex/supported/supertablar Thanks for the contribution. I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Dec 2 04:01:53 1996 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 09:48:09 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Submission to TeX archive: wtex95v2 (fwd) > From: Michael Muecke > Subject: Submission to TeX archive > Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 07:16:57 +0100 > > I have just uploaded version 2.0 of WinTeX 95 to ftp.dante.de into > /incoming/wtex95v2 Thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version systems/win32/wtex95/wtex95.{txt,zip} with the new files systems/win32/wtex95/wtex95v2.{txt,zip}. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de Mon Dec 2 08:42:56 1996 Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 14:23:46 +0100 From: Thorsten Ohl To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: [LaTeX/Metafont] Feynman diagrams: FeynMF v1.08 released This announces version 1.08 of FeynMF, a combined LaTeX and Metafont (or Metapost) package for easy drawing of professional quality Feynman (and maybe other) diagrams. Version 1.08 is mainly a bug fix release and offers a driver script as the only new feature. The driver script is still experimental and I will be grateful for portability suggestions (it has been developed with teTeX under Linux). This software will show up through the magic of mirroring at the CTAN host near you. Enjoy, -Thorsten NEWS for Version 1.08 * Improved very short gluon and photon propagators by relaxing overly aggressive rounding. * New (still experimental) `feynmf' script automating the invocation of Metafont (requires perl(1)). /// Thorsten Ohl, TH Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany //////////////// net: ohl@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de, ohl@gnu.ai.mit.edu /// voice: +49-6151-16-3116, secretary: +49-6151-16-2072, fax: +49-6151-16-2421 From xlwy01@UXP1.HRZ.UNI-DORTMUND.DE Tue Dec 3 11:14:47 1996 Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:39:00 +0100 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission on ftp.dante.de I've just uploaded the file CJK-4.1.0-4.1.1.diff.gz . Please move it into tex-archive/language/chinese (unpacked). Thank you in advance Werner From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 4 05:45:16 1996 Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 10:06:19 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeX Converter FAQ Wilfried Hennings writes: > I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk my FAQ lists of converters > between (PC Wordproc) <-> (LaTeX) > > The first file is named "texcnven.txt.04dec96" [English FAQ] > The second file is "texcnvde.txt" [German FAQ] > Both files should finally reside in .../tex-archive/help I have installed the two files in directory help/wp-conv (feeling that the directory name would at least give hints for the troubled searcher). I also installed links, as follows: RTF,Word,WordPerfect<->TeX_Konvertern_FAQ_[Deutsch] -> texcnvde.txt RTF,Word,WordPerfect<->TeX_convertors_FAQ_[English] -> texcnven.txt (making gratuitous use of the way Unix allows silly file names... ;-) Thanks for the upload. I had been thinking (as you know) that we ought to have the English file on the archive, but hadn't even realised that there was a German version as well. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 4 10:11:52 1996 Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 15:00:58 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Fix for Bakoma fonts Some long time ago, Scott Berg wrote: > I have uploaded a file newbakoma.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. > > It contains the files > > cmbsy10.pfb cmbsy8.pfb cmsy5.pfb cmsy8.pfb > cmbsy6.pfb cmbsy9.pfb cmsy6.pfb cmsy9.pfb > cmbsy7.pfb cmsy10.pfb cmsy7.pfb > > It's purpose is to provide a simple solution to a known > problem--square roots when using the Bakoma fonts get chopped off at > the knees. I did nothing particularly original--I just followed the > advice from the following news article (found using Deja News): > > > Subject: Re: Square root with Bakoma fonts > > From: jhertzli@ix.netcom.com(Joseph Hertzlinger) > > Date: 1996/05/12 > > Message-Id: <4n3gj5$g55@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> > > References: > > Organization: Netcom > > X-Netcom-Date: Sat May 11 8:57:57 PM CDT 1996 > > Newsgroups: comp.text.tex > > > > In lk3a@cars.mech.Virginia.EDU > > (Count Dracula) writes: > > > > >The square root symbol in Bakoma fonts comes out chopped. > > >Has anyone devised a workaround to this? > > > > The square roots in the symbol fonts (cmsy* and cmbsy*) in > > /fonts/postscript/bakoma/pfb in some TeX archives has a bounding box > > which is too small > > > > The square roots in the symbol fonts in /fonts/postscript/cm (at least > > at SHSU and also the Walnut Creek CDROM) will not be chopped. > > > > Alternatively you can try editing the BBox array in each font using a > > hex editor. (The second value should be about -999.) > > The unchopped fonts referred to seem to have fallen off the face of > CTAN, so I figured I'd provide corrected ones. > > I took the -999 literally; somebody who actually knows what they're > doing could probably make a tighter bounding box. Note that you don't > even need a hex editor to do this--I just edited the 'FontBBox' > comment, which is in plaintext. Maybe I should have changed something > else, but this seemed to be sufficient to get things working. Let me > reiterate I have no clue what I'm doing--I just applied a simple fix > which seems to work. I'd welcome anyone who knows what's going on to > provide a better solution. > > I would suggest replacing Basil's version of these fonts in > fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb with the corrected files, and renaming > his to .orig. > > Note I've only fixed the pfb files; the other formats should probably > be updated as well (?), but I lack the facilities and knowledge to do > so. > > A big thanks to Basil for making these things in the first place, Deja > News for preventing information from falling off the end of the net, > and the CTAN folks for organizing all the TeX stuff... I spent some time establishing whether Basil Malyshev is contactable -- it turns out that he isn't, so my ambition of suggesting to him that these become part of the `official' BaKoMa distribution falls at the first hurdle. I have therefore installed the set (with a README by me, and a copy of Scott's mailing as NOTICE) in directory fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/patched-pfb Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Dec 5 00:58:28 1996 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 06:55:04 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.0 (fwd) > From: Michael Lenzen > Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.0 > Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:24:02 +0100 > > CTAN Submission > > update 'g-brief' rel. 1.4b to rel. 2.0 > > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b) 'g-brief-2.0.tar.gz' to /incoming > > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for > formatting formless letters in german or english language > > (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief-2.0/ > (please replace and remove the old and obsolete files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief) Thanks for the update. I replaced version 1.4 with version 2.0 in the same directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief. Usually, the directory names in macros/latex don't include the version number. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 5 08:44:43 1996 Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 13:27:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: [Fwd: CTAN Submission -- mpfnmark] Wolfgang Kowarschick writes: > The mpfnmark package provides the command \mpfootnotemark, > which can be used in the same way as \footnotemark. The difference > betwee these two macros is that within minipage environments the latter > uses the standard footnote marker style (defined by \thefootnote), > while the new command uses the minipage footnote marker style (defined > by \thempfootnote). > > (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/other Thanks. I've installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/other/mpfnmark It will propagate to the rest of the network in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec 9 12:04:53 1996 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:53:50 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- uaclasses Marcel Oliver writes: > I uploaded the following file for submission to CTAN > to ftp.tex.ac.uk: > > uaclasses.tar.gz > > I suggest placing the files into > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported > > Enclosed the README file for this package: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Readme file for the package "ua-classes". Date: 1996/12/05 > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > This package provides a LaTeX2e document class named 'ua-thesis' for > typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format required by the > University of Arizona. Moreover, there is a fully compatible alternative > document class 'my-thesis' for private "nice" copies of the dissertation, > and the respective title pages are available as separate packages to work > with "any" document class. > > > The distribution contains the following files: > > README This file. > > ua-classes.dtx User guide and documented source code. > Run 'latex ua-classes.dtx' to obtain user documentation. > > ua-classes.ins Installation file. > Run 'latex ua-classes.ins' to install the package. > Generates the following files: > ua-thesis.cls, my-thesis.cls, ua-title.sty, my-title.sty > > ua-example.tex An example dissertation generated from the University > of Arizona Manual for Theses and Dissertations. > > ua-example.dvi Example output formatted with ua-thesis.cls > and the draft option (from 'ua-example.tex') > > my-example.dvi Example output formatted with my-thesis.cls > > > The following software needs to be installed on the user's system: > > LaTeX version 2e, December 1994 or later > AMS-LaTeX version 1.2, October 1996 or later > AMSFonts version 2.0, January 1995 or later Thanks for the upload: I've installed it as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Dec 9 12:26:34 1996 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:19:38 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind (lgrindef) Micahel Grant writes (I'm told ... the mailer hasn't deigned to send me a copy): > I've uploaded PSfrag 3.02, a bug-fix release, to > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/psfrag.tar.gz > > it needs to be replace the files that are currently found in > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag I've done that. His announcement text says: ======================== A brand-spankin' new version of PSfrag, version 3.02, for LaTeX2e can be found at CTAN sites in the directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag. PSfrag 3.02 is a bug fix release, and should be installed over any copy of PSfrag 3.01 that is out there. In addition, I recommend that you re-typeset any files on which you have already used PSfrag 3.0 or 3.01. For those of you that have been diligently installing these interim releases, beating on them with your favorite documents, and sending us angry bug reports: thanks a lot (and sorry!) This new PSfrag system _will_ prove worthwhile, but you have uncovered bugs that we never would have anticipated otherwise. For those of you that are slow, and haven't downloaded PSfrag 3.0 yet: PSfrag 3.x constitutes a near-complete reimplementation of the internals of PSfrag. Veteran PSfrag users will note the absence of the ps2frag script; that is because _it is no longer necessary_. What is PSfrag? --------------- Many drawing and graphing packages produce output in the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, but few can easily produce the equations and other scientific text of which LaTeX is capable. On the other hand, many LaTeX-based drawing packages are not as expressive or easy-to-use as the many advanced drawing packages that produce EPS output. PSfrag provides the best of both worlds by allowing the user to precisely overlay Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files with arbitrary LaTeX constructions. In order to accomplish this, the user places a simple text ``tag'' in the graphics file, as a ``position marker'' of sorts. Then, using simple LaTeX commands, the user instructs PSfrag to remove that tag from the figure, and replace it with a properly sized, aligned, and rotated LaTeX equation. The full documentation for PSfrag found in the release contains examples and usage instructions. To use PSfrag... ---------------- ...you will need: * LaTeX2e and the "graphics" package. (You can use the old epsf.sty macros with PSfrag, but you still need the graphics package.) Please make sure to get the newest versions of these packages from CTAN before submitting bug reports. * Any DVI-to-PostScript program that is well-supported by the "graphics" package. This author uses Tom Rokicki's "dvips"; I recommend it. PSfrag has also been verified for DVIPSone from Y&Y (using Level 2 PostScript printers). PSfrag is intended to work with any driver that is fully supported by the "graphics" package, however. Changes from PSfrag 2.x ----------------------- PSfrag 3.0 has eliminated the pre-processing step required in the past. As a result, the ps2frag script is now obsolete. However, as a consequence, the PSfrag replacements don't show up in their proper places until the PostScript file is generated. If you look at the .dvi file with a viewer like XDvi, you will see the replacements lined up to the left of your figure in a vertical list. This is NOT a bug, but a necessary consequence of the elimination of the preprocessing step. PSfrag now fully supports compressed EPS files, as long as they do not contain embedded \tex commands. The \tex macro, therefore, has been deprecated; support for the \tex macro must be explicitly requested by passing an option to the package. (It still works rather well, though.) Bugs? What Bugs? ---------------- PSfrag 3.01 is bug-free. Of course, we're kidding. That's what we said about PSfrag 3.0, in fact, and look where it got us. If you have problems, bug reports, or improvement suggestions, please send them to the PSfrag maintainer's mailing list, psfrag@rascals.stanford.edu Please supply an example .tex file and .eps figure to demonstrate the behavior you wish to have corrected or improved. This is a majordomo mailing list; feel free to join if you would like to actively participate in PSfrag development. Thanks for using PSfrag! ======================== Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 10 05:33:30 1996 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:20:31 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission Frank Bennett writes: > I have just uploaded a package called "overword" to CTAN. > Please put it into the macros/latex/contrib/supported > subdirectory, in a directory called "overword". > > A couple of chunks of the Calendar package will be issued > as sub-packages. This is the first. I've installed the directory as requested. Thanks for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Dec 10 10:22:07 1996 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:52:41 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- rail2e (fwd) > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:02:00 MEZ > From: Klaus Georg Barthelmann > Subject: CTAN Submission -- rail2e > > I have uploaded the file rail2e.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. > > Rail2e is an update of the rail package written by L.W.J. Rooijakkers. Its main > new feature is compatibility to LaTeX2e. > Rail is able to typeset syntax diagrams. It is similar to the package syngen in > this respect. Included is a style file and a small compiler. The latter needs > C/Lex/Yacc instead of CAML Special Light. > > I suggest to put rail2e into either > - macros/latex/contrib/other (in correspondence to its current place > macros/latex209/contrib) or > - support (side by side with syngen). Thanks for the contribution. I removed the old version macros/latex209/contrib/rail and installed the new version in macros/latex/contrib/other/rail2e. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Dec 11 11:32:00 1996 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:44:26 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Ulf Lindgren writes: > I have submitted a zip file named fch.zip containing > > fancychapter.ps - User documentation > fancychapter.sty - macro defs. > readme.txt - Installation help > > The file was submitted to ftp.tex.ac.uk > I suggest thatthis file is placed under > > macros/latex2e/contrib/other/fancychapter > > In short this package will provide six predefiend > chapter headings. Each such can modified using a > set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the > formatting routines in order to create additional > chapter headings. Thanks. I have installed the files as requested here (i.e., ftp.tex.ac.uk). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Dec 13 02:47:58 1996 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 08:29:06 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.1 (fwd) > From: Michael Lenzen > Subject: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.1 > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 02:42:53 +0100 > > CTAN Submission > > update 'g-brief' rel. 2.0 to rel. 2.1 bugfixed > > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b) 'g-brief-2.0.tar.gz' to /incoming > > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for > formatting formless letters in german or english language > > (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief/ > (please replace and remove the old and obsolete files in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief) Thanks, I installed the upgrade as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec 13 06:57:06 1996 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:44:10 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: A few jiffy packages I have just done a mini-refresh of my packages on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc; I don't know whether any of them have ever been properly announced, so here goes: The set of packages of mine in that directory is now: capt-of.sty Defines a command \captionof for putting a caption to something that's _not_ a float stblftnt.sty Makes footnotes stable, in the sense that they disappear if the argument that they're in is moving (useful for footnotes in section headings) topcapt.sty Defines a command \topcapt, which does the same as caption, except that it places itself correctly when put _above_ the figure/table that it's a caption of I've also deleted faqverbs.sty, whose job is so much better done by Donald Arseneau's url.sty that I'm embarrassed to have it sitting in the same directory... Robin Fairbairns From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 14 09:17:12 1996 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:05:45 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis (fwd) From: "Joel D. Young" Subject: CTAN Submission -- afthesis Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:21:46 -0500 I am submitting an new revision of the afthesis latex document class. The new revision is in (a,b)*** /incoming/afthesis2.tgz on ftp.dante.de. (d)**** The files in afthesis2.tgz should replace all files in the macros/latex/contrib/supported/afthesis/ directory on CTAN. (c)*** These files are a LaTeX2e document class for the (US) Air Force Institute of Technology thesis/dissertation format. Thanks for the update. I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 14 12:42:50 1996 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 17:36:20 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Bibliography - I need help Donald Arseneay has submitted a bunch of updates to his many packages on CTAN. Here are brief notes on them all. > cite.sty Compressed, sorted lists of numerical citations: [8,11-16] > 3.6 (May 1996) LaTeX2e, 2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/cite.sty > 3.6: Include \G@refundefinedtrue and nosort option > > > overcite.sty Compressed, sorted lists of superscript numerical citations: > " [12,16,11,13,14,15]." --> ".$^{11-16}$" > 3.6 (May 1996) LaTeX2e, 2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/overcite.sty > 3.6: Add nosort option. > > > chapterbib.sty Do multiple bibliographies; one per \included file. > 1.6 (26-SEP-1996) LaTeX2e, 2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite/chapterbib.sty > % Changes with ver 1.6: change the \sectionbib command to take arguments. That lot have replaced the earlier versions in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cite > cases.sty Multi-case equations with big brace, and a number for each case. > ver 2.2 Oct 1995 LaTeX2e only > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/cases.sty Old version deleted from latex209 area > 3parttable.sty Tables with captions and notes all the same width. > Dec 9, 1996 LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/3parttable.sty > (centering fixed) > > tabls.sty Better vertical spacing in tables and arrays (tabular lineskip) > 3.5 1996 LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/tabls.sty > % (3.5) Fix several (non-crashing) bugs introduced in 3.4 > > titleref.sty "\titleref" to cross-reference the titles of sections > 2.0 1996-09-26 LaTeX2e, > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/titleref.sty > (mainly, \section* etc. are handled better.) > > url.sty Breakable verb; good for email/path/html. > 1.2 19-Oct-1996 LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09 > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/url.sty > % Package option for T1 encoding; Hooks: "\UrlLeft" and "\UrlRight". > > shapepar.sty typeset paragraphs in specific complex shapes > Version 1.01 (March 1993) LaTeX2e, LaTeX2.09, Plain TeX > macros/latex209/contrib/misc/shapepar.sty > Version 1.01 (March 1993) Small changes from initial release. Old version deleted from latex209 area > truncate.sty Truncate text to a specified width > 2.0 Any LaTeX > (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/truncate.sty) Which replace earlier versions either in latex209/contrib/misc or in latex/contrib/other/misc; they're all installed in latex/contrib/other/misc Thanks, Oonald, for the contribution. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Dec 14 14:38:50 1996 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:36:30 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Further changes in Donald Arseneau's macro contributions Following the upload I announced earlier today, I have made a few further changes, at Donald's suggestion: -- I have reinstalled 3parttable.sty as threeparttable.sty (which is the name used when describing the package in the companion; I've created a link from 3parttable.sty to threeparttable.sty -- I have moved macros/latex209/contrib/tabto.tex to macros/generic/tabto.tex -- I have deleted macros/latex209/contrib/diamondpar.sty Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Dec 19 11:57:06 1996 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:32:32 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Statistics for usage of ftp.tex.ac.uk during November 1996 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Thu Oct 31 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Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 66493 20774088564 14.41 52.96 TeX Informational Files 4620 7494046214 1.00 19.10 fonts 218170 3829325859 47.28 9.76 macros 85981 2416189222 18.63 6.16 info 9038 1775786979 1.96 4.53 support 29091 1704193179 6.30 4.34 dviware 10583 311570523 2.29 0.79 help 3411 164672857 0.74 0.42 graphics 6774 137251473 1.47 0.35 biblio 4520 132213771 0.98 0.34 web 6890 128801896 1.49 0.33 Informational Files 142 119306444 0.03 0.30 language 7251 113529309 1.57 0.29 tools 4288 65921848 0.93 0.17 usergrps 541 16658485 0.12 0.04 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Dec 20 04:52:57 1996 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:39:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- minitoc Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > I have uploaded in /incoming a file minitoc-v27.tar.gz.uu > which is a new release (#27) of my minitoc package. > > This release fixes some problems with ``starred'' chapters > (commands \chapter*, \section* ... ). > > The minitocoff.sty package is renamed mtcoff.sty to have > a short name (the 8+3 limitations on some systems...). > > The language specific files (like mtcenglish.sty and > mtcfrench.sty) are renamed with shorter names and the > .mld suffix (mld = minitoc language definition), e.g. > english.mld and french.mld. > > Some languages have been added: arabic (arab), breton, > estonian, germanb, greek, irish, russianb, scottish, > lower and upper sorbian, vietnamese (vietnam); renamed > esperanto into esperant like in Babel. > > This version replace \emph{completely} the #25 version > in macros/latex/contrib/supported/minitoc/ . > The version #26 was an intermediate version and is not > public. I have duly installed it as such. > Best regards, merry Chrismas and have a Happy New Year > to the LaTeX team, Thank you -- and the same to you! Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 21 02:45:05 1996 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:36:26 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Upload - rail2e (fwd) Forwarded message: > From owner-ctan@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sat Dec 21 05:04:25 1996 > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:59:11 +0100 > From: "Klaus Georg Barthelmann70-iso885@" > > Subject: Upload - rail2e > > I just uploaded the files > rail.{ps,sty,tex} > to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. Please move them to > macros/latex/contrib/other/rail2e > > The main reason for this upgrade is a very short-sighted mistake on my > side: The placement on CTAN broke the availability information in the > documentation. And when I'm at it, I already cleaned the style file a > little bit. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de yesterday. By now, it should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Sorry for the delay, but your mail took nearly five days to pass from relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de to listserv.gmd.de. Quite a little bit of constipation in the remains of the bitnet world ;-) Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Dec 21 02:53:49 1996 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 08:49:11 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to custom-bib (fwd) > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: Update to custom-bib > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:14:50 +0200 > Comments: To: ctan@SHSU.edu > To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN > > I wish to submit an update to my package custom-bib. > > I have put the following files into the /incoming/custom-bib directory > on the dante server. > > README.v382, merlin.mbs, physjour.mbs > > Please copy these into the directory > latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > replacing those of the same name and removing README.v381. Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de yesterday. It should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors now. By the way, please don't send announcements to ctan@SHSU.edu. This address merely forwards your mail to ctan@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, where it will be distributed to the CTAN staff. We don't know when even this last (?) remnant of CTAN on SHSU will stop working, so you'd better get accustomed to the Heidelberg address. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Dec 24 16:27:37 1996 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:24:39 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Babel release 3.6 (fwd) > From: "Johannes L. Braams" > Subject: Babel release 3.6 in ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming > Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 20:16:59 +0100 > > I have just put the file babel-3.6.zip in /incoming on ftp.dante.de. > It's contents replaces the contents of the .../packages/babel directory. > Also the file babel-3.6beta.zip in the .../packages directory is now > obsolete, so needs to be removed. Thanks for your update. I replaced the old version in /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel as requested. It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. > Below I include the file announce.txt/. > > Merry Xmas and a happy new year, > > Johannes Braams Best wishes to all (La)TeX fans, Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team > Hi, > > I am relieved to finally be able to tell you that I have > finalized Babel release 3.6. > > What's new in release 3.6? > In Babel version 3.6 a number of bugs that were found in > version~3.5 are fixed. Also a number of changes and additions > have occured: > - A new environment `otherlanguage*' is introduced. it only > switches the `specials', but leaves the `captions' > untouched. > - The shorthands are no longer fully expandable. Some > problems could only be solved by peeking at the token > following an active character. The advantage is that '{}a > works as expected for languages that have the ' active. > - Support for typesetting french texts is much enhanced; the > file francais.ldf is now replaced by frenchb.ldf which is > maintained by Daniel Flipo. > - Support for typesetting the russian language is again > available. The languange definition file was originally > developped by Olga Lapko from cyrtug. The fonts needed to > typeset the russian language are now part of the babel > distribution. The support is not yet up to the level which is > needed according to Olga, but this is a start. > - Support for typesetting greek texts is now also > available. What is offered in this release is a first attempt; > it will be enhanced later on by Yannis Haralambous. > - Support for typesetting Welsh texts has been added. > - A new command \aliasshorthand is introduced. It seems that > in Poland various conventions are used to type the necessary > polish letters. It is now possible to use the character / > as a shorthand character instead of the character~" by > issuing the command \aliasshorthand{"}{/}. > - The shorthand mechanism now deals correctly with characters > that are already active. > - Shorthand characters are made active at \begin{document}, > not earlier. This is to prevent problems with other packages. > - A \emph{preambleonly} command |\substitutefontfamily| has > been added to create \file{.fd} files on the fly when the > font families of the latin text differ from the families > used for the cyrillic or greek parts of the text. > > The last remark: where can you get babel 3.6? > It is available in the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/packags/babel on CTAN. > For those who want to test the new support for Russian: you'll > need the LH fonts (see CyrillcFonts.txt in the distribution) > > Happy LaTeXing! > > Johannes Braams From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Dec 29 10:04:35 1996 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:59:02 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: babel fix again > From: "Johannes L. Braams" > Subject: babel fix again > Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 15:43:22 +0100 > I am uploading bbl-updates.zip to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming right now. > it contains a few fixes for typos found. Thanks, I installed the updates for babel 3.6 in tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/babel. > I intend to keep on quickliy fixing these kind of errors over the upcoming > couple of weeks. Fine with me ;-) Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 31 07:56:22 1996 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 12:40:00 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LatexMk Evan McLean writes: > I have uploaded version 2.0 of LatexMk to ftp.tex.ac.uk in the /incoming > directory, filename of latexmk-2.0.tar.gz > > This replaces the contents of /tex-archive/support/latexmk > and will be the final release of this utility. > > Evan McLean > > -- > emm@rdt.monash.edu.au | The more people I meet, > (Occasionaly thought | the more I like my cat. > of as Evan McLean) | I've installed the new version here; it'll propagate to ftp.dante.de and to the mirrors in due course (whatever that means). For LaTeX users who aren't acquainted with LatexMk (and who use a Un*x system): I strongly recommend you investigate this excellent utility... (I don't normally recommend things in this way, but I feel rather strongly about LatexMk ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Dec 31 11:07:15 1996 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:53:51 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- emtexgi Allin Cottrell writes: > I have just uploaded emtexgi.zip, emtexgi.tex, readme.txt > and timestex.zip to /incoming/emtexgi on ftp.tex.ac.uk. > These files compose the latest version of EMTEXGI, a Windows > interface to emTeX. Please delete the files currently in > > systems/msdos/emtex-contrib/emtexgi > > and replace them with those mentioned above. I'm afraid I've only just installed these (they arrived the day my project deliverable was due ...). Anyhow, they're on ftp.tex.ac.uk now, and will propagate soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jan 8 07:12:45 1997 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:44:06 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Summission: fribrief (fwd) > From: Alexander Fries > Subject: CTAN Summission: fribrief > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:11:55 MEZ > I've upload a update for my letterclass mybrief.cls for LaTeX2e on the > CTAN-server at FTP.DANTE.DE. There are three files named > > fribrief.cls (the LaTeX2e-class) > fribrief.sty (the LaTeX2e-package of mybrief.cls) > fribrief.ger (german documentation of fribrief.cls) > > in the directory /incoming/FRIBRIEF. > > It is a update for mybrief.cls in directory > /pup/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief > Please delete mybrief.* or replace it with the new files. Thanks for the update. I installed the new version - as David Carlisle suggested on ftp.dante.de in /macros/latex/contrib/supported/fribrief and removed the old version macros/latex/contrib/other/mybrief. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jan 8 08:22:34 1997 Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 14:03:18 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission - WinTeX 95 v2.01 (fwd) > From: Michael Muecke > Subject: CTAN Submission - WinTeX 95 v2.01 > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 13:14:33 +0100 > > Ich habe gerade Version 2.01 meines TeX-Editors nach > > /incoming/wtex95v2 > > geladen. Er ersetzt Version 2.0 in /pub/tex/systems/win32/wtex95v2 und > behebt ein paar kleinere Bugs. Bitte aktualisiert das Archiv. Thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version in /tex-archive/systems/win32/wtex95 on ftp.dante.de. The new version will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan 9 04:35:56 1997 Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 10:15:24 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN update to aguplus (fwd) > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:33:20 +0200 > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: CTAN update to aguplus > > I have put some update files to my bundle AGUPLUS into the Dante server > under /incoming/aguplus > > aguplus.cls > aguplus.sty > samplus.tex > changes.v15b > README.pwd > > Please put these into /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus > replacing the files of the same name and removing changes.v15a. Done as requested. The new files will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors -rz -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 10 05:28:37 1997 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:04:07 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fncychap Ulf Lindgren writes: > I have submitted a zip file named fch.zip containing > > fncychap.ps - User documentation > fncychap.sty - macro defs. > readme.txt - Installation help > > The file was submitted to ftp.tex.ac.uk > > This is a revised version of FancyChapter, > with minor changes, name change (for DOS) > and latex-base requierment (1995/12/01). > > I suggest that this file is placed under > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/fncychap > > This means that the old package can be deleted located > under macros/latex/contrib/other/fancychapter. > > In short this package will provide six predefined > chapter headings. Each such can modified using a > set of simple commands. Optionally one can modify the > formatting routines in order to create additional > chapter headings. I have installed the new version as suggested, and deleted the old version Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 10 11:26:56 1997 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 16:17:03 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: How to combine 2 independent LaTeX files... Jean-Pierre Drucbert writes: > Finally, I have put export.tar.gz.uu in /incoming on the > ftp.tex.ac.uk CTAN server. I should know that mail servers > are indomptable beasts. I repeat below the description of > the export package. Of course, I managed to lose this message over Christmas. Mail servers aren't half as indomitable as absent-minded archivists... > This package allows the user to export/import the values of > LaTeX registers (counters, rigid and rubber lengths only). > It is definitely NOT for faint-hearted users. > > There are 3 files: > > - export.dtx the self-contained package file, with the doc; > - export.ins (to unpack the package, like a Xmas gift...); > - dvipaste.sty an auxiliary package, derived from the > dvipaste tool, available on CTAN sites. This package is > useful for some interesting manipulations; the dvipaste > tool (program dvipaste.c and dvipaste.tex macros) is > copywrighted by ``The TeXplorators Corporation''. > dvipaste.sty is just dvipaste.tex corrected to work under > LaTeX. > > It should be installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/export/ > > Thanks again, and best regards. > > PS. this package is my little Xmas gift to the LaTeX users. At least I managed installation here (ftp.tex.ac.uk) before November 30+25, 1997... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Fri Jan 10 14:56:10 1997 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 20:46:04 +0100 From: Johannes L. Braams To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: babel update(s) Hello, Over the last couple of days I have sent several fixes of babel 3.6 to CTAN. The most recent one will be installed tonight. Below you'll find a list of all the fixes that I've sent in so far. This list is in the file fixes.txt which is now part of the distribution. Kind regards, Johannes Braams Fixes since last release 10 Januari 1997 1996/12/27 Replaced babel.ins, added a missing definition 1996/12/29 Replaced italian.dtx,russian.dtx to fix missing braces 1996/12/30 Replaced babel.dtx, changed definition of \addto slightly. 1996/12/31 Replaced babel.ins, added a missing \fi 1997/01/02 Replaced bbplain.dtx to repair a problem with AMSTeX Replaced install.txt to fix a typo 1997/01/05 Replaced babel.dtx to enable the use of babel with a standard format (without hyphen.cfg preloaded) (PR 2354) This always worked, but a bug prevented it from working; see changes.txt 1997/01/09 Replaced babel.ins to add instruction about .fd files to the end; Replaced babel.dtx to make the language switch commands switch off language shorthands, and to add the options french, UKenglish, USenglish; Replaced bbplain.dtx to add \@begindocumenthook to the LaTeX2.09 format; Replaced catalan.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces in the output; Replaced dutch.dtx to fix a typo; Replaced esperant.dtx to fix a typo; Replaced frenchb.dtx, update from Daniel Flippo; Replaced galician.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces in the output and to make "a and "o work in vertical mode; Replaced spanish.dtx because it produced unwanted spaces in the output and to make "a and "o work in vertical mode; Replaced greek.fdd because some of the font substitutions were wrong and to make \TeX, \LaTeX, \copyright, \textcircled, \textregistered \texttrademark and \ss produce something expected; Replaced cyrillic.fdd to make \TeX, \LaTeX, \copyright, \textcircled, \textregistered \texttrademark and \ss produce something expected; Replaced tb1202.tex and tb1401.tex to fix a couple of typos. 1997/01/10 Replaced babel.dtx, adding two missing braces. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jan 13 07:15:06 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:46:38 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission: termcal.tar.gz Bill Mitchell writes: > % The package "termcal.sty" > % > % This package is intended to print a term calendar for use in > % planning a class. It has a flexible mechanism for specifying > % which days of the week are to be included and for inserting text > % either regularly on the same day each week, or on selected days, > % or for a series of consecutive days. It also has a flexible > % mechinism for specifing class and nonclass days. Text may be > % inserted into consecutive days so that it automatically flows > % around nonclass days. > > > The tar file includes the following: > > Contents -- this file > termcal.dtx -- source file > termcal.ins > > termcal.sty -- style file, derived from termcal.dtx > termcal.ind -- index, derived from termcal.dtx > > As usual the command "latex termcal.dtx" will print the > documentation. Since the documentation includes an example of the > use of the package, the style file "termcal.sty" is needed to print > the documentation. At his suggestion, I have installed this stuff at ftp.tex.ac.uk in directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/termcal Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jan 14 10:15:05 1997 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:46:58 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: new version of ppchtex Hans Hagen writes: > I've downloaded a new version of PPCHTEX to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming (it > should have been the german address I suppose). As a general rule, continue using the site you first used. You may be surprised, anyway: physical nearness doesn't always mean net-nearness... > The update concerns a > in-line math font problem (thanks to Frank Mittelbach for mentioning > this) and a ommision of at the end of the file (better for unix > users). I have installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and it'll make its way off around the world in due course... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan 16 09:28:48 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 15:22:01 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: trip test for MLTeX v2.2 (fwd) > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:32:22 +0100 > From: Bernd Raichle > Subject: trip test for MLTeX v2.2 > > (a) site: ftp.dante.de > > (b) file(s): mltrip.tar > > (c) overview: > MLTeX was missing a test similar to Knuth's trip test for > TeX. I have created one for MLTeX v2.2 which performs basic > tests of the ML extensions and MLTeX's current behaviour. > For older MLTeX versions the test complains with warning > messages. > There is no manual included; there is a short description of > the necessary steps at the beginning of the file "mltrip.tex". > > (d) place within CTAN: systems/generic/mltex/mltrip/ > (unpack the tar file in .../mltex/, it will create the > subdirectory "mltrip") Thanks for the contribution. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 17 09:41:14 1997 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:09:33 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- VDC free DEMO Bernard Gaulle writes: > For IDEAL FONTS i just uploaded in /incoming on ftp.tex.ac.uk > the following: > /anonymous@ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming/texturesVDC: > total 818 > drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp ctan 8192 Jan 10 09:12 . > drwxrwx--- 12 ftp ctan 8192 Jan 10 08:34 .. > --w-r----- 1 ftp ctan 1333 Jan 10 09:12 README.IF > --w-r----- 1 ftp ctan 816551 Jan 10 08:46 VDC1.1DEMO.sea.hqx > > I suggest that directory (/texturesVDC) be moved to /systems/mac, asis. > It contains a free demo of the Virtual DC fonts for Textures by IDEAL FONTS. Thanks for the submission. Bernard and I have had some discussion about this, and I have decided (on behalf of the CTAN team) to install the directory as systems/mac/textures/contrib/VDC Note that the contrib directory is not part of the bluesky mirror which makes up most of systems/mac/textures Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jan 21 05:17:23 1997 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:00:17 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Mainz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Release: ec fonts version 1.0 Announcement: Stable ec fonts available now There are now the stable ec fonts Version 1.0 available from the CTAN archives in directory tex-archive/fonts/jknappen/ec The ec fonts support the complete LaTeX T1 encoding, as defined at the 1990 TUG conference hold at Cork/Ireland. They are intended to be as stable as the cm fonts are, i. e. there shall be no more changes to the tfm files. The ec fonts also contain a Text Companion Symbol font, called tc, featuring many usefull characters needed in typesetting, for example oldstyle digits, currency symbols (including the newly created Euro symbol), the permille sign, copyright, trade mark and servicemark as well as a copyleft sign, and many others. The upcoming release of LaTeX2e will support the ec fonts. The dc fonts, which were termed as preliminary versions, will dissappear from the archives soon. It is suggested, that you replace them entirely by the ec fonts. Let me thank to all the people who have contributed to the success of the ec font project. They are too numerous to mention all of them, but some of them should have a place here: Donald E. Knuth and Richard Southall for designing and coding the cm fonts, which are the base of the ec fonts Babrbara Beeton, Michael Ferguson, and Jan-Michael Rynning for pushing the project into existence Norbert Schwarz for the first two releases of the dc fonts Yannis Haralambous for numerous contributions to the METAFONT code Boguslaw Jackowsky and Marek Rycko for designing and programming the polish letters Andreas Schwab for finding and fixing some very bad bugs Daniel Taupin and Denis Roegel for fine-tuning of the accented letters needed in french The remaining errors and bugs in the distribution are all mine, no one of the persons credited above and the other unnamed contributors should be blamed for them. --J"org Knappen. From oneill@CS.SFU.CA Tue Jan 21 13:24:38 1997 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:17:39 -0800 From: Melissa O'Neill To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Release: ec fonts version 1.0 J"org Knappen writes: > There are now the stable ec fonts Version 1.0 available from the CTAN > archives in directory This is very nice to see, thank you J"org. One issue for me, however, is that I'm not likely to switch over to the ec fonts until they're freely available as PostScript Type 1 fonts rather than having to use metafont generated bitmaps. Is Basil K. Malyshev still participating in TeX font issues and prepared to run his miracle conversion software on the ec fonts as he did for the cm and ams fonts (and an earlier version of the dc fonts)? It would be certainly be excellent if this could happen. Hoping someone knows... Melissa. From s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK Wed Jan 22 04:41:59 1997 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:28:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Sebastian Rahtz To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Release: ec fonts version 1.0 Melissa O'Neill writes: > than having to use metafont generated bitmaps. Is Basil K. Malyshev still > participating in TeX font issues and prepared to run his miracle > conversion software on the ec fonts as he did for the cm and ams fonts > (and an earlier version of the dc fonts)? It would be certainly be > excellent if this could happen. Basil at last news was ill, recovering from an accident, and isn't actively working on the conversion. Maybe he will return to it, but i would not hold your breath Sebastian From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Jan 22 11:57:56 1997 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:54:21 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- latexn John Collins writes: > I have uploaded the file latexn to ftp.dante.de. > > It is a csh script to run latex as many times as needed on a given > file to resolve cross references, and to ensure that the table of > contents and index (if any) are up-to-date. It tries to avoid running > latex more times than needed. Documentation is in the form of > comments and help text in the file. > > I suggest placing it in /tex-archive/support/ > > John Collins > CERN and Penn State University > john.collins@cern.ch and collins@phys.psu.edu (preferred) Thanks a lot. Following your suggestion, I placed the file into support/latexn For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Wed Jan 22 13:33:29 1997 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:29:00 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX Release LaTeX 1996/12/01 release ======================== The LaTeX3 project is pleased to announce a new release of LaTeX (with a nominal date of 1996/12/01). The following directories have been updated at the ctan sites, ftp.dante.de and ftp.tex.ac.uk. (Updates will happen at mirrors overnight, finger ctan@ftp.dante.de for a list of mirror sites.) tex-archive/macros/latex/base or tex-archive/macros/latex/unpacked and tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/graphics tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/mfnfss As was announced last November, this `December' released was delayed to allow more testing of a change to the fd file names to make the system more portable. They are now all lowercase (t1cmr.fd, rather than the old T1cmr.fd). This change should not affect any LaTeX document, but should make it much easier to share LaTeX files between case sensitive file systems (such as unix) and case insensitive ones (such as MSDOS, or CDROM formats). The delay has also allowed support for the new `ec' fonts that were released earlier this week to be incorporated into this LaTeX release. As always, a copy of ltnews (ltnews06.tex) has more details of the new features. (In particular details of how to enable support for the ec fonts.) David Carlisle LaTeX3 project From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jan 24 02:33:36 1997 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:26:18 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- newthm.tgz (fwd) > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 07:52:08 +0100 > From: Andreas Schlechte > Subject: CTAN Submission -- newthm.tgz > > i've uploaded the package newthm.tgz to ftp.dante.de. The archive > contains a modified version of the theorem-style, which provides > generation of lists of theorems. Sorry, there isn't yet a documentation, > but it will added as soon as possible. In fact it's released in one > of the next "Die TeXnischer Kom"odie". I will add it to the archive > at this time. > > I recommend installing the unpacked files in > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/ Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files as requested yesterday and they should be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors by now. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jan 24 07:16:01 1997 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:03:54 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LTX2X, updated LaTeX to X translator Peter Wilson writes: > I have sent the file ltx2x.tar.gz to directory /incoming at ftp.tex.ac.uk. > This is a new release of the LTX2X program, and I suggest that it replace > the contents of the current /support/ltx2x directory. > > Below is part of the README file. > > Regards > Peter W. > > > file: README for January 1997 release of LTX2X LaTeX to X Autotagger > > New improved LTX2X with all sorts of print capabilities and an > embedded interpreter for the EXPRESS-A programming language, based > on the ISO standard ISO 10303-11:1994 "Industrial automation systems > and integration -- Product data representation and exchange -- > Part11: Description methods: The EXPRESS language reference manual". > > FUNCTION > > The LTX2X program, which is written in C, will replace LaTeX commands > in a LaTeX document by user-defined strings. In essence, LaTeX tags can > be replaced by other kinds of document tags (e.g. HTML/SGML or RTF tags), > or can be removed altogether. The program also has an unsophisticated > pretty-print capability. > > The replacement strings for the LaTeX commands are specified > in a command table file, which can be created simply via any text > editor. For more advanced users an interpreter for the EXPRESS-A > programming language is also included. EXPRESS-A includes STRING, LIST > and ENTITY types as as primitives of the language, as well as the > usual REAL, INTEGER and LOGICAL types. Regular expressions are also > an integral part of EXPRESS-A. The interpreter also includes an > interactive source level debugger for EXPRESS-A. > > The supplied command tables include facilities for, among others: > o deTeXing and pretty-printing > o Conversion from LaTeX tagging to HTML tagging > > The 100+ page user manual is supplied as LaTeX source, Postscript, > and in deTeXed and HTML forms, the latter two being automatically > generated by running LTX2X on the LaTeX source. > > > AUTHOR > > Comments and suggestions should be sent to Peter Wilson (The Catholic > University of America and NIST) pwilson@cme.nist.gov I've installed the new version as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Fri Jan 24 12:18:05 1997 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:14:12 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX package for type1 (or truetype) cm fonts. \fontsize{2cm}{2.5cm}\selectfont If you are using scalable versions of the cm fonts (Type1 Bakoma, or versions from BSR/Y&Y, or True Type versions from Kinch, PCTeX etc) then you may sometimes not want LaTeX to restrict the cm fonts to discrete sizes as it does by default. I have just uploaded a package that has been installed as ctan:macros/latex/contrib/supported/type1cm that removes this restriction (for the cm and AMS font sets). It can be used as a package (recommended way) or installed as an alternative set of fd files (which would change the default LaTeX behaviour at your site) \fontsize{4in}{5in}\selectfont David From mcgrant@RASCALS.STANFORD.EDU Sun Jan 26 17:35:08 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:33:23 -0800 From: Michael C. Grant To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: OOPS! Corrected version of PSfrag 3.03 uploaded I sheepishly confess that there was a typographical error in the version of psfrag.dtx I uploaded just a few days ago. For that reason, please install the new version of psfrag.tar.gz that I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. It should go into /macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag The bug won't rear its head for but a few people, so I've kept the version number 3.03. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jan 29 15:20:42 1997 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 15:07:46 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: statistics, ftp.tex.ac.uk, December 1996 If these were produced by a daemon, they wouldn't have been delayed by influenza. 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There are many sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not logged and reported by this program. Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 75843 18626519180 14.77 47.40 TeX Informational Files 4536 5874212590 0.88 14.95 fonts 202097 4951648422 39.37 12.60 macros 118113 2908393434 23.01 7.40 info 13877 2675618565 2.70 6.81 support 25317 2205113500 4.93 5.61 dviware 11531 412318106 2.25 1.05 language 20165 327181471 3.93 0.83 usergrps 3075 205384298 0.60 0.52 graphics 10888 198682407 2.12 0.51 tools 5903 192516083 1.15 0.49 web 8676 166134180 1.69 0.42 biblio 4225 147238132 0.82 0.37 help 2278 118083901 0.44 0.30 Informational Files 122 98262788 0.02 0.25 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jan 30 08:11:48 1997 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:01:10 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german update (fwd) > From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs > Subject: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german update > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:52:01 +0100 > > (a) on ftp.dante.de > (b) there is a new incoming/oztex-german directory > (c) which is to replace the old > (d) /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german directory. > > thanks > Lothar (DANTE Mac-Coordinator) Thanks for the update, Lothar! I installed the new version as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 3 04:56:26 1997 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:48:36 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: saferef available James Ashton writes: > Since I received a number of requests from you all, I've tidied up my > saferef package and uploaded it to CTAN. I imagine it will be > available there within a day or two although, if you're desperate, it > can also be found at > > ftp://syseng.anu.edu.au/pub/jaa/saferef.tar.gz > > I've requested that the unpacked files be located in the CTAN directory > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/saferef > > I'm sorry it took a couple of weeks to set up but it took me a while to > find time to do a reasonable job of the documentation and make a proper > package for use with docstrip. Enjoy. Saferef provides a means of expressing `typed' references (as it were) within a document. I've now installed the package as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk: it'll propagate to the rest of the CTAN/mirror system shortly. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 3 05:02:02 1997 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:59:52 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Expiry notices The listserv at Heidelberg expires subscriptions to this list that are not confirmed. When it's decided to expire a subscription, it sends the subscriber a message with the title Expiration of your subscription to the CTAN-ANN The message explains that if you *forward* the message itself to listserv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de your subscription will be automatically renewed. Some people (two already in today's mail) are _replying_ to the mail with a request to be subscribed to the list. CTAN-Ann is handled by a listserv nowadays, not by the MX software at SHSU: a reply turns up on the list managers' e-doormat. The list managers have better things to do (like running CTAN) than to answer all these mails individually. I have replied to *one* of the mails I've received today. I shall delete all future ones without further comment. So: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the renewal request message PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't `answer' it PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE only bother ctan-ann-request@urz.uni-heidelberg.de if you've got a real problem with the list Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb 4 02:23:52 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 08:20:39 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.06 (fwd) > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 23:56:35 +0100 > From: Christian Schenk > Subject: CTAN Submission -- MiKTeX 1.06 > > I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.06. MiKTeX is an implementation of TeX&Friends > for Windows NT/95. Thanks for the submission. I installed it on ftp.dante.de in systems/win32/miktex replacing the old version 1.05. It will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 4 08:31:49 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 13:21:04 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Statistics, ftp.tex.ac.uk, Jan 1997 TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Wed Jan 1 1997 TO Tue Dec 31 1996 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 497181 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 43419439031 Systems Using Archives 0 Average Files Transmitted Daily 15537 Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 1356857470 Daily Transmission Statistics Number Of Number of Average Percent Of Percent Of Date Files Sent Bytes Sent Xmit Rate Files Sent Bytes Sent --------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Wed Jan 1 1997 4347 745223591 6.3 KB/s 0.87 1.72 Thu Jan 2 1997 14769 1088629907 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There are many sites which mount the archives via NFS, and those transfers are not logged and reported by this program. Top 15 Most Popular Archive Sections By Bytes Transferred ---- Percent of ---- Archive Section Files Sent Bytes Sent Files Sent Bytes Sent ------------------------- ---------- ----------- ---------- ---------- systems 59025 20545944486 11.87 47.32 TeX Informational Files 4188 5627143767 0.84 12.96 support 30890 4318080309 6.21 9.95 macros 120222 4246584272 24.18 9.78 fonts 203244 3559686588 40.88 8.20 info 9977 2491531630 2.01 5.74 dviware 13846 528001856 2.78 1.22 language 14253 454669001 2.87 1.05 tools 7369 305531986 1.48 0.70 biblio 6627 282908001 1.33 0.65 web 8396 255679941 1.69 0.59 graphics 7152 216205358 1.44 0.50 usergrps 2255 146209536 0.45 0.34 Informational Files 159 126301354 0.03 0.29 digests 6083 113683106 1.22 0.26 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb 4 08:48:17 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 14:43:24 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to natbib (fwd) > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 14:01:18 +0200 > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: Update to natbib > > I have updated my natbib package and put the new files into /incoming > on the Dante server. > > These are: natbib.dtx > README.v65 > > Please copy them to latex/contrib/supported/natbib > removing the old README.v64. Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 5 11:42:02 1997 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 15:34:53 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Another update to natbib (fwd) > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:24:31 +0200 > From: daly@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de (P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany) > Subject: Another update to natbib > > Following my update to natbib yesterday, someone has pointed out a problem in > it. I have now corrected this and uploaded natbib.dtx once again to the > incoming directory of dante. Could you please transfer this to > latex/contrib/supported/natbib Done on ftp.dante.de. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 5 11:19:51 1997 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:16:53 +0100 From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ecfonts minor update I have installed a minor update to the ec fonts on the german CTAN site, from where it will propagate to the mirror sites soon. It contains: * a few tfm files for the fixed size fonts, which I had forgotten in the original bundle * minor corrections to the readme files For the end users of the ec fonts, no action is required. --J"org Knappen Please note that my e-mail adress is migrating to joerg.knappen@uni-mainz.de The old one will be available for some time, but the new one is preferred now. From TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Feb 5 11:19:51 1997 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:16:53 +0100 From: TEX@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ecfonts minor update I have installed a minor update to the ec fonts on the german CTAN site, from where it will propagate to the mirror sites soon. It contains: * a few tfm files for the fixed size fonts, which I had forgotten in the original bundle * minor corrections to the readme files For the end users of the ec fonts, no action is required. --J"org Knappen Please note that my e-mail adress is migrating to joerg.knappen@uni-mainz.de The old one will be available for some time, but the new one is preferred now. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 5 12:15:24 1997 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 17:13:29 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Checksum 1.2 for Macintosh Frédéric Boulanger writes: > I am sorry to inform you that version 1.1 of Checksum for Macintosh is > not compatible with the Unix version of checksum. This is due to the > different codes used for the end-of-line character on the two platforms. I > fixed this problem in version 1.2 which I uploaded on ftp.tex.ac.uk in the > directory Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2. > > Since the MPW tool which is distributed as > archive-tools/checksum/v1-04/applemac/chksum1.hqx > is plagued with the same problem, I uploaded a fixed MPW checksum tool as > checksum-MPW-1.0.4.sea.bin in the /incoming directory. > > To summarize, I uploaded: > the MPW tool: > > > the french version of the Checksum 1.2 application: > n> > > the source files of the Checksum 1.2 application: > in> > > the US version of the Checksum 1.2 application: > n> Thanks for the upload: I apologise for being rather slow to install the stuff... I've installed a directory tools/checksum/Checksum_for_Macintosh_1.2 with your new version in it. I've also installed tools/checksum/v1-04/applemac/checksum-MPW-1.04.sea.bin -- your amended version of the original. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From burchard@pobox.com Thu Feb 6 03:35:59 1997 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 03:36:56 +0000 From: Paul Burchard To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: pb-diagram 4.1 Version 4.1 of the "pb-diagram.sty" commutative-diagram LaTeX macro package is now available from the CTAN directory: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/pb-diagram/ The package comes with full documentation and examples. The main change is a much-requested fix for the LAMS arrow fonts (thanks to Ingo Hadan ). PB From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Feb 6 04:14:15 1997 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:11:46 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CIRC.DTX > NEW VERSION OF CIRC > > I have upload in > > ftp.dante.de:/incoming/circ/ circ.dtx, circ.ins, circ.txt, readme > > the package CIRC. > > Please change it to: macros/generic/diagrams/circ Done, i.e. the old version 1.0[b] has been replaced. > Would you be so kind to inlucde CIRC in the quote site index. The index is built automagically, so it's already there > Is it possible that the keyword "circuit" points to CIRC? No. The index is built automagically, manual additions are not possible without reprogramming the index script. > This is CIRC version 1.0[c]. > > The package \CIRC is a tool for typesetting circuit diagrams. It > defines several electrical symbols like resistor, capacitor, > transistors etc. This symbols can be connected with wires in a > very easy manner. > > For using \CIRC you only need \METAFONT and \LaTeX{}. You do not > need postscript or any drawing tool. You can expand \CIRC easily > with your own symbols, written in \METAFONT. > > CIRC is an open system. As an example in this package is an > optics style with lenses, mirrors and so on to show, how to use > the macros and expand the package. > > It runs with LaTeX2e. > > To install \CIRC first run TeX on "circ.ins". Reinhard Zierke For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Feb 6 18:53:49 1997 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 23:47:33 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Submission -- Qfig version 1.1 William Ofosu-Amaah writes: > Qfig version 1.1 upload. > > a) Uploaded to "/incoming/qfig" directory at ftp.tex.ac.uk > > b) Two files were uploaded: > qfg11exe.zip > qfg11src.zip > > c) BRIEF OVERVIEW > QFIG Ver.1.1 is an update to Qfig Ver 1.0. > QFIG is a DOS graphics program for LaTeX for use on IBM Compatible PCs. > It generates output for PicTeX and EPIC for LaTeX 2.09. It can also be > very easily configured for LaTeX2e output. Qfig requires a VGA or EGA > screen to work. > > qfg11exe.zip - contains the program file and documentation > qfg11src.zip - contains the source code > > > d) I recommend placing the file in: > /ctan/tex-archive/support/qfig Thanks for the submission. I have installed the new release as suggested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Feb 9 14:19:56 1997 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:17:08 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c 2.0 (fwd) > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:52:24 +0100 > From: Andreas Scherer > Subject: CTAN Submission -- AmiWeb2c 2.0 > > After the announcement of Karl Berry's Web2c 7.0 package I'm also glad > to announce the availability of AmiWeb2c 2.0, the Amiga port of the > complete UNIX-TeX system. > > I've just now uploaded the archive file "amiweb2c-2.lha" together with > an introductory "amiweb2c-2.readme" file to > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/amiweb2c Thanks for your submission. As you requested, I replaced the old version in ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/amiga/amiweb2c Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 10 06:41:25 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:38:48 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package to > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/hyper.zip > It replaces the old version at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper > > Package description: > When loaded the package produces a hypertext document > with latex2e by including special marks into the > dvi-file. > > Differences to earlier version: > * Bug fixes. Thanks. I've installed the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Feb 10 09:23:35 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 15:16:33 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: dc fonts 1.3 replaced by virtual fonts On ftp.dante.de, I have replaced the obsolete DC fonts in tex-archive/fonts/dc by virtual fonts from Bernd Raichle which map them into the EC fonts v1.0. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team from the file tex-archive/fonts/dc/README.vf-dc13-ec10 : Virtual fonts for DC v1.3pl4 using EC v1.0: =========================================== This is a set of virtual font (vf) files with their associated tfm files which (a) maps the obsolete DC fonts v1.3pl4 to use the EC fonts v1.0 (additionally the renamed TC fonts, which are part of the DC/EC fonts are mapped, too), (b) thus replaces all DC 1.2 and 1.3 pk files, (c) is generated automatically from the tfm files of DC 1.3pl4 and EC 1.0. The included 371 tfm files are equal to the ones which will be generated by MF and the original DC 1.3pl4 sources. Installation: ------------- On a TDS-compliant installation + move directory "tfm" to .../texmf/fonts/tfm/jknappen/dc13 + move directory "vf" to .../texmf/fonts/vf/jknappen/dc13 - you can remove all tfm files of dc v1.3 (they should match the ones in "tfm", for the complete set of tfm files for the TC fonts, see the EC font family in fonts/ec) - you can remove all pk files of dc v1.3 in .../texmf/fonts/pk/*/jknappen/dc... Changes: -------- v0.3 97/02/10 Added idcl*, dcl*, dcssdc10, dcqi8, dcsq8. v0.2 97/01/31 Corrected position of `german opening comma', added tc*. v0.1 97/01/22 First test version for a subset of dc v1.3pl4. -v0.3 97/02/10 Bernd Raichle From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 10 12:48:25 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:45:34 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mt11p Drahoslav Lim writes: > I've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file incoming/mt11p.tar.gz > (in the obvious format), which is a package for the support > of MathTime (``complete'') in LaTeX. Ascii files have > LF (unix) line endings. It untars into a `mt11p' directory, > and places everything under that directory. > > This package was developed independently of the `mathtime' > package available from Y&Y and the operative parts were > in fact written before Y&Y posted its announcement. > It looks like the aims of mt11p and mathtime are not > exactly the same, so thought I would post my file in > spite of Y&Y's commision. > > Suggested location: fonts/mt11p > > Status: ``supported'', my e-mail address is mentioned in various places. > > From the 0readme file: > > >ABSTRACT: mt11p is a package to use the MathTime and MathTimePLUS > >(``MathTime complete'') fonts in LaTeX2e. Everything is included, > >incl. (patched) font metrics, except, of course, > >the Type1 fonts themselves. > > > >The package cooperates with the AMS packages (amsmath, amssymb, etc.) > >T1 and OT1 encodings (as operators fonts!) are fully supported. > >It does not assume you own any other commercial (non-resident) fonts. > > > >This package has no connection with the ``mathtime'' package > >by Frank Mittelbach & David Carlisle, commissioned by Y&Y. This stuff has taken an age in installation, for various reasons. I believe all problems are now sorted out, but users should be aware that the .tfm and .vf files in this package are different from the `standard' ones supplied by Y&Y. Thanks for the upload, and sorry about the delays... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Feb 11 11:02:21 1997 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:57:19 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilTeX 2.1 Jim Hafner writes: > ****************************************************************** > ****** ANNOUNCING the release of FoilTeX 2.1 for LaTeX2e ********* > ****************************************************************** > > I have recently uploaded the latest release of the FoilTeX system for > generating foils (transparencies, slides) using TeX. You should find > it on your nearest CTAN in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/foiltex > > ******************* About the package *************************** > > Its features include simplicity of use, compatibility with LaTeX, > large sans serif font as default, extra macros to start foils with > bold headings and special mechanisms to control footer and header. > > This new version (from 2.0.1 to 2.1) fixes some small bugs and added > support for the official EC fonts of LaTeX 1996/12/01 (as well as some > backlevel support for the previous release of the DC fonts). > > James (Jim) Hafner > IBM Research Division > Almaden Research Center, K53-B2 > 650 Harry Road > San Jose, CA 95120-6099 > email: hafner@almaden.ibm.com > ....................................................................... > "The history of science rewrites itself each day. We're living in days > of wonder, Simon says." Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe > ....................................................................... The new version is now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk, and will propagate in due time. Thanks for the upload, Jim Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From popineau@ESEMETZ.ESE-METZ.FR Wed Feb 12 02:14:27 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:08:28 +0100 From: Fabrice POPINEAU To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32 Hi, I uploaded binary and source packages of web2-7.0 for win32 to /ftp@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/winweb2c There are 3 files: 6224 Feb 12 07:47 README.win32 5285081 Feb 12 07:52 web2c-7.0-win32-src.tar.gz 4311229 Feb 12 07:58 web2c-7.0-win32.tar.gz The source package contains all sources and makefiles needed to recompile all the stuff. The binary package is (briefly) described in README.win32, which is appended to this message. This is intended to go into: CTAN:systems/win32/web2c Fabrice POPINEAU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What's in this distribution: ---------------------------- Directory of j:\TeX\bin\win32 [.] [..] afm2tfm.exe bibtex.exe dmp.exe dvicopy.exe dvihp dvilj.exe dvilj2p.exe dvilj4.exe dvilj4l.exe dvips.exe dvitomp.exe dvitype.exe etex.exe gftodvi.exe gftopk.exe gftype.exe gsftopk.exe inimf.exe inimpost.exe initex.exe kpathsea.dll kpsewhich.exe latex.exe makeindex.exe makempx.exe MakeTeXls-R.exe MakeTeXmkdir.exe MakeTeXnames.exe MakeTeXpk.exe MakeTeXupdate.exe mf.exe mft.exe mltex.exe mpost.exe mpto.exe msvcirt.dll msvcrt.dll MSVCRT10.DLL msvcrt20.dll msvcrt40.dll newer.exe patgen.exe pktogf.exe pktype.exe pltotf.exe pooltype.exe tangle.exe tex.exe tftopl.exe vftovp.exe virmf.exe virmpost.exe virtex.exe vptovf.exe weave.exe 57 File(s) 4 934 204 bytes pool files, plain.base, tex.fmt, latex.fmt, mpost.mem. Kpathsea, web2c and win32 docs in dvi and ps (600dpi) format. dvips and fontname directories, web2c config files ... What's left to do: ------------------ MakeTeXtfm.exe, MakeTeXmf.exe and xdvi.exe. There are substantial differences between MakeTeXpk.exe and the original one. The most important one is that MakeTeXpk.exe will try to install the pk file in the same tree as the tfm file that generated it. Unless lots of things like: - this tree is on a CD-ROM, in which case TEXMFMAIN is choosen; - the varfonts feature is on, in which case VARTEXFONTS is choosen. The db file updated by MakeTeXpk.exe is the one on the texmf tree choosen for the pk file, unless TEXMFLS_R is set. Under Win95, the MakeTeX*.exe programs can be renamed without the "TeX" part into their names in order to get 8.3 filenames. But for dvips calling makepk.exe insted of MakeTeXpk.exe, you have to set DVIPSMAKEPK to makepk. There are some difficulties to overcome wrt filesystems supported by Win95 and NT, but that do not support long filenames. 1 - if you are running on ntfs or protected mode fat (the one you get with win95), no problem. 2 - if you are running on a true fat or alike, kpathsea.dll has been made case insensitive, and you can define aliases for long filenames in the file 'texmf/aliases'. See the example in the distrib. In fact, even if ntfs is case sensitive, win32 calls do not respect this. So, at best, case is preserved, which is enough to get kpathsea running with no differences from Unix. You can ask for 'kpsewhich cmr10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.TFM' and you will find the same file. But Fat do not preserve case and It truncates long filenames when you create them. So you can define aliases in 'texmf/aliases' to map long filenames to short ones. In fact there should be very little problems with fat as MakeTeXls-R is writing the database in lower case when it detects the fs is not able to cope with mixed cases. However, if you are working on a case preserving fs, tex will not recognize that FOO.TEX has a .tex extension : you will get FOO.TEX.dvi. You must use lower case names, even if FOO.TEX and foo.tex reference the same file. I have no simple solution to overcome this. And on true case sensitive fs, you get the same result. MakeTeX.site is supported, but without any options about permissions. Some testing has been done and it seems to enable compatibility with dviwin for example. Gsftopk can generate bitmaps for psfonts, providing you have ghostscript. Metapost is working. The bug preventing makempx.exe to call latex instead of tex has been corrected. Makeindex is provided, as is e-TeX. I began to port xdvi. The source is something ugly to look at. All the .c files compile but events.c. It needs complete rewriting. What's needed to install the distribution: ------------------------------------------ A TDS conformant texmf tree, ie: i:/TeX/texmf. You can get the one called texmflib-7.0.tar.gz . There is plain tex, latex, metafont, fonts, and so on. Enough to get a running LaTeX, or e-TeX. Assuming you have: i:/TeX/bin /win32 /doc /info /share/texmf/bibtex ... /share/texmf/web2c Unzip texk-win32 in i:/TeX/. Get tar.exe and gzip.exe if you don't have them. These are the ones by Geoff Voelker for ntemacs. Add i:/TeX/bin to your PATH. Kpathsea is self hosting now. It should work out of the box. If it is not the case, try to trace what's wrong with kpsewhich. Two variables (SELFAUTODIR and SELFAUTOPARENT) point to the directories that could be the root of the installation (ie: i:/TeX in my example). All texmf.cnf is parametrized with these two variables. Alternatively: - Edit web2c/texmf.cnf . I assume you are allright with the syntax of this file. You can read the texi doc. - Set TEXMFCNF to point to the directory where texmf.cnf lies, ie: i:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c in our case. MakeTeXls-R to create the filename database. For gsftopk, set GS_PATH to the absolute path for gswin32c.exe if it not already in your PATH (otherwise, it should find it) and GS_LIB to the adequate path : set GS_PATH=i:/gstools/gs4.03/gswin32c.exe set GS_LIB=i:/gstools/gs4.03;i:/gstools/fonts Recompiling the distrib is not so easy. I need some Unix tools like tr, sed, etc... These tools exist under win32, but some are flawed. I had to recompile myself some of them. When the test period will be over, I will made public all the makefiles and other source code I needed. Feel free to use this, ask for any information and report any bug. popineau@ese-metz.fr From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 02:21:50 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:20:37 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a (fwd) > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 18:29:24 -0400 > From: Aleksander Simonic > Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN > archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > > This is a new shareware release of WinEdt TeX Shell (1.41-a) for > Win32. The Shell is by default configured as a GUI for MiKTeX (but > can be customized for any other TeX System as well). The suggested > placement is: > > "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt" > > (many users remark that this is the logical location). > > I would also like to have the old version (WinEdt 1.4-c) removed > from the archive, because I am withdrawing the support for a > 16-bit platform. The old version is in: > "tex-archive/support/winedt". Thanks for the submission. I installed it and removed the old version as requested. > The new release of WinEdt has a built-in spell-checker. With the > permission of Erik Frambach (amSpell Dictionaries creator and > maintainer) I converted amSpell Dictionaries for use with WinEdt. > The dictionaries together with the appropriate disclaimer and > copyright notice are in the subdirectory ".../dict". > > > Sincerely yours, > > Aleksander Simonic > > ps. Please let me know when the upload is processed so that I can > notify the registered users about their free upgrade. This release > took me over 6 months (much more than anticipated) and I am > receiving many enquiries from impatient users about the status of > the (promised) new release... Thank you in advance. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 02:36:52 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:35:20 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32 (fwd) > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:08:28 +0100 > From: Fabrice POPINEAU > Subject: CTAN Submission -- Web2c-7.0 for win32 > > I uploaded binary and source packages of web2-7.0 for win32 to > > /ftp@ftp.dante.de:/incoming/winweb2c > > There are 3 files: > 6224 Feb 12 07:47 README.win32 > 5285081 Feb 12 07:52 web2c-7.0-win32-src.tar.gz > 4311229 Feb 12 07:58 web2c-7.0-win32.tar.gz > > The source package contains all sources and makefiles needed to > recompile all the stuff. The binary package is (briefly) described in > README.win32, which is appended to this message. > > This is intended to go into: > CTAN:systems/win32/web2c Thanks for the contribution. I installed the three files plus gzip.exe and tar.exe (which I got from Fabrice after complaining ;-)) as requested. > Fabrice POPINEAU > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's in this distribution: > ---------------------------- > > Directory of j:\TeX\bin\win32 > > [.] [..] afm2tfm.exe bibtex.exe > dmp.exe dvicopy.exe dvihp dvilj.exe > dvilj2p.exe dvilj4.exe dvilj4l.exe dvips.exe > dvitomp.exe dvitype.exe etex.exe gftodvi.exe > gftopk.exe gftype.exe gsftopk.exe inimf.exe > inimpost.exe initex.exe kpathsea.dll kpsewhich.exe > latex.exe makeindex.exe makempx.exe MakeTeXls-R.exe > MakeTeXmkdir.exe MakeTeXnames.exe MakeTeXpk.exe MakeTeXupdate.exe > mf.exe mft.exe mltex.exe mpost.exe > mpto.exe msvcirt.dll msvcrt.dll MSVCRT10.DLL > msvcrt20.dll msvcrt40.dll newer.exe patgen.exe > pktogf.exe pktype.exe pltotf.exe pooltype.exe > tangle.exe tex.exe tftopl.exe vftovp.exe > virmf.exe virmpost.exe virtex.exe vptovf.exe > weave.exe > 57 File(s) 4 934 204 bytes > > pool files, plain.base, tex.fmt, latex.fmt, mpost.mem. > > Kpathsea, web2c and win32 docs in dvi and ps (600dpi) format. > > dvips and fontname directories, web2c config files ... > > What's left to do: > ------------------ > > MakeTeXtfm.exe, MakeTeXmf.exe and xdvi.exe. > > There are substantial differences between MakeTeXpk.exe and the > original one. The most important one is that MakeTeXpk.exe will try to > install the pk file in the same tree as the tfm file that generated > it. Unless lots of things like: > - this tree is on a CD-ROM, in which case TEXMFMAIN is choosen; > - the varfonts feature is on, in which case VARTEXFONTS is choosen. > The db file updated by MakeTeXpk.exe is the one on the texmf tree > choosen for the pk file, unless TEXMFLS_R is set. > > Under Win95, the MakeTeX*.exe programs can be renamed without the > "TeX" part into their names in order to get 8.3 filenames. But for > dvips calling makepk.exe insted of MakeTeXpk.exe, you have to set > DVIPSMAKEPK to makepk. > > There are some difficulties to overcome wrt filesystems supported by > Win95 and NT, but that do not support long filenames. > 1 - if you are running on ntfs or protected mode fat (the one you get > with win95), no problem. > > 2 - if you are running on a true fat or alike, kpathsea.dll has been > made case insensitive, and you can define aliases for long filenames > in the file 'texmf/aliases'. See the example in the distrib. > > In fact, even if ntfs is case sensitive, win32 calls do not respect > this. So, at best, case is preserved, which is enough to get kpathsea > running with no differences from Unix. You can ask for 'kpsewhich > cmr10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.tfm' or 'kpsewhich CMR10.TFM' and you > will find the same file. > > But Fat do not preserve case and It truncates long filenames when you > create them. So you can define aliases in 'texmf/aliases' to map long > filenames to short ones. > > In fact there should be very little problems with fat as MakeTeXls-R > is writing the database in lower case when it detects the fs is not > able to cope with mixed cases. > > However, if you are working on a case preserving fs, tex will not > recognize that FOO.TEX has a .tex extension : you will get > FOO.TEX.dvi. You must use lower case names, even if FOO.TEX and > foo.tex reference the same file. I have no simple solution to overcome > this. And on true case sensitive fs, you get the same result. > > MakeTeX.site is supported, but without any options about > permissions. Some testing has been done and it seems to enable > compatibility with dviwin for example. > > Gsftopk can generate bitmaps for psfonts, providing you have > ghostscript. > > Metapost is working. The bug preventing makempx.exe to call latex > instead of tex has been corrected. > > Makeindex is provided, as is e-TeX. > > I began to port xdvi. The source is something ugly to look at. All the > .c files compile but events.c. It needs complete > rewriting. > > What's needed to install the distribution: > ------------------------------------------ > > A TDS conformant texmf tree, ie: i:/TeX/texmf. You can get the one > called texmflib-7.0.tar.gz . There is plain tex, latex, metafont, > fonts, and so on. Enough to get a running LaTeX, or e-TeX. > > Assuming you have: i:/TeX/bin > /win32 > /doc > /info > /share/texmf/bibtex > ... > /share/texmf/web2c > > Unzip texk-win32 in i:/TeX/. Get tar.exe and gzip.exe if you don't > have them. These are the ones by Geoff Voelker for ntemacs. > > Add i:/TeX/bin to your PATH. > > Kpathsea is self hosting now. It should work out of the box. If it is > not the case, try to trace what's wrong with kpsewhich. Two variables > (SELFAUTODIR and SELFAUTOPARENT) point to the directories that could > be the root of the installation (ie: i:/TeX in my example). All > texmf.cnf is parametrized with these two variables. > > Alternatively: > - Edit web2c/texmf.cnf . I assume you are allright with the > syntax of this file. You can read the texi doc. > > - Set TEXMFCNF to point to the directory where texmf.cnf > lies, ie: i:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c in our case. > > MakeTeXls-R > > to create the filename database. > > For gsftopk, set GS_PATH to the absolute path for gswin32c.exe if it > not already in your PATH (otherwise, it should find it) and GS_LIB to > the adequate path : > > set GS_PATH=i:/gstools/gs4.03/gswin32c.exe > set GS_LIB=i:/gstools/gs4.03;i:/gstools/fonts > > Recompiling the distrib is not so easy. I need some Unix tools like > tr, sed, etc... These tools exist under win32, but some are flawed. I > had to recompile myself some of them. When the test period will be > over, I will made public all the makefiles and other source code I > needed. > > Feel free to use this, ask for any information and report any bug. > > popineau@ese-metz.fr > Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Feb 12 13:10:19 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:05:27 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- dante-src (fwd) > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:16:31 +0100 > From: rz32@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de > Subject: CTAN Submission -- dante-src > > (a) I have uploaded the DANTE UNIX TeX distribution to the server > ftp.dante.de > to the directory > /incoming/dante-src > > (b) The package consists of the files > LIES.MICH > READ.ME > dante-dvilj.tar.gz > dante-dvips.tar.gz > dante-latex.tar.gz > dante-tex.tar.gz > > (c) The package contains the source code for a TeX installation under UNIX > (TeX, current release of LateX2e, METAFONT, BibTeX, MakeIndex, drivers for > X11, HP LaserJet and PostScript). > > (d) The files replace the files at the directory > tex-archive/systems/unix/dante-src > (the old files have been compressed using 'compress', whereas the new ones > are compressed using 'gzip'). The contents of dante-dvilj.tar and > dante-dvips.tar have not changed, but there are changes at the other files. Very many thanks for the submission. I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From inas@MIB.HARZ.DE Thu Feb 13 04:33:50 1997 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:18:45 +0100 From: Andreas Schlechte Reply-To: Andreas.Schlechte@tu-clausthal.de To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- newthm.sty Hi, i've uploaded a new version of newthm.sty. Please overwrite the corresponding file in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/ The other files didn't change Thanks, Andi From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Feb 13 07:50:14 1997 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:06:24 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: request removal of obsolete web2c-mp patches Hi Ulrik > given the recent official release of web2c-7.0 which now also includes > MetaPost as part of the standard distribution, I'd like to request the > removal of the obsolete MetaPost patches for web2c-6.1 located in > > CTAN:graphics/metapost/contrib/systems/web2c > > which I contributed in May 1995. Users interested in MetaPost should > better be redirected to CTAN:systems/unix/web2c (for the latest sources) > and/or CTAN:systems/unix/teTeX (for a pre-packaged binary distribution). > > Cheers, Ulrik. I removed graphics/metapost/contrib/systems as web2c was the only item in it. Thanks Rainer From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Feb 14 03:31:14 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:27:43 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a [Patch 1] (fwd) > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 20:07:49 -0400 > From: Aleksander Simonic > Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-a [Patch 1] > > I uploaded the files "winedt.zip" and "patches.txt" which are to > be contributed to the CTAN archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming > > This files should be placed in: > > "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt" > > I uploaded WinEdt 1.41-a three days ago but a major problem with > display "flickering" on WinNT platform was reported shortly after > the upload was processed. The problem is now fixed (as well as an > OEM translation problem with German Keyboard Drivers). I also > included some answers to the questions that were frequently asked > the last two days... Please, place these two files in the > specified directory (replacing "winedt.zip" with the new file). Done as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Feb 14 03:41:35 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:35:46 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- absbook class file (fwd) > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:39:52 +0100 > From: Havlik Denis > Subject: CTAN Submission -- absbook class file > > I have uploaded abstbook.cls file to ftp.dante.de Thanks for the submission. I installed the file on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/abstbook.cls > It is a latex2e class file for making "BOOKS OF ABSTRACTS", commonly > used on conferences. It is based on report class, however \chapter has > been redefined and shouldn't be used. > > This is first public version (let's say beta1). It doesn't have much > functionality, but it works. > > It produces a4 formatted booklet, with two abstracts pro page, and table of > contents for each conference day. Abstracts are labeled ON THE MARGIN, > and day/sessionname appear in headings. > > USAGE: > > \documentclass[]{abstbook} > \begin{document} > \conferenceday{some day} > \sessionname{shrt1}{long session name 1} > \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 1}{file1.tex} > \loadabstr{toc entry 2}{file2.tex} > > \sessionname{shrt2}{long session name 2} > \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 3}{file3.tex} > \loadabstr[opt]{toc entry 4}{file4.tex} > > etc... > > \end{document} > > files file1.tex should be in the same directory, and have following > format: > > \index{author1} > \index{author2} > ... > \titl{titl text} > \name{name list} > \adr{adress} > \begin{abstr} > text > \end{abstr} Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 14 10:56:08 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:53:35 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: bold symbol package `bm' upload David Carlisle writes: > Cambridge's incoming/bm has > > --w-r----- 1 ftp ctan 48072 Feb 14 15:34 bm.dtx > --w-r----- 1 ftp ctan 268 Feb 14 15:35 bm.ins > --w-r----- 1 ftp ctan 1218 Feb 14 15:35 bm.txt > > Could you move that to > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/bm > > This is version 1.0a of the `bm' package for accessing bold > symbols in math mode. (Similar to the AMS \boldsymbol command, > but taking more care over spacing, delimiters etc) > > Apart from the version number and date it is identical to version > 0.99b that has been available on beta test from http://www.yandy.com > for some time. I've installed the package as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:01:53 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:56:32 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- camel.dtx Frank Bennett writes: > I have put the file camel1.0t.tgz into the > ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming directory. Please move this into the > existing .../camel subdirectory in the supported hierarchy, and > unpack. It contains replacements for all ten files that ship > with the Camel package. It's just a bugfix release, but it was a > fatal bug for some :-) Thanks, Frank. I've installed the update at ftp.tex.ac.uk, as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:02:10 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:58:39 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- geometry UMEKI Hideo writes: > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.05) > to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/geometry-1.05.tar.gz. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Change from 1.04: > dvips option definition modified to make \special shipped out > properly in the dvi file using \AtBeginDvi. > > Please replace the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. I've installed the update as requested, at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:06:59 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:05:16 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- dates-v1.3.tgz Frank Bennett > I have placed the above-captioned file in the /incoming > subdirectory on ftp.tex.ac.uk. Please move it to the > "dates" subdirectory and unpack it. It will replace all > four of the files in the "dates" package. > > This upgrade offers a minor enhancement in the handling of > recursive dates --- you can now concisely indicate the dates of > standing orders against your bank account. Saves time by > automating the process of being irritated and dismayed. I've installed the update as requested at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 06:39:26 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:37:02 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: new package: ftp.tex.ac.uk Alan Hoenig writes: > I have placed the file vfinst.tar.gz in the /incoming directory > of ftp.tex.ac.uk. It should go in the fonts/utilities/vfinst area, > but FIRST please delete all the files pertaining to the earlier, > cruftier version. This package installs families of outline, text > fonts. The readme follows: > > > This package called `VFinst' will make it easy to install > families of outline PostScript text fonts for use by TeX. > > Here are the fonts you get at the end of the process. > > * For every upright font: you get this font, the small caps > font, and an oblique font. > * For every italic font, you get this font, a small caps > italic, and an unslanted italic. > * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display) > fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font, > if the appropriate raw fonts were present. > > VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts, > if these raw fonts were originally present. You also get test files > for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide > examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX > document. > > Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all > .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you > according to the fontname2.1 conventions. All oblique and italic > fonts use the true italic angle for the font. The dvips map file > psfonts.map will have been updated for you. All fonts will have been > placed in the proper area on your hard disk. You may choose original > TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be > installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or > `traditional' standard. All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding. > > VFinst is a set of Perl scripts. In addition, this package relies on > the fontinst package of Alan Jeffrey. > > All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file > vfinst.tex. PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY > FONT INSTALLATIONS. > > Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is > ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for > improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted. Thanks, Alan. I've installed the upload as requested, replacing the old directory in its entirety. However, before doing so I deleted the empty `work' subdirectory (the daily CTAN tidying mechanisms would have done that at 0600 GMT tomorrow anway), Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Feb 17 10:47:36 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:39:57 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- MiKTeX 1.07 Christian Schenk writes: > I have uploaded MiKTeX 1.07 to the directory > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex : > > README.TXT > bugs.txt > ec107.zip > exe107i.zip > install.exe > miktex.html > misc107.zip > news.txt > src107.zip > > 1) Please install the files in the CTAN directory > > systems/win32/miktex > > 2) Please remove the files > > ec106.zip > exe106i.zip > misc106.zip > src106.zip > > from systems/win32/miktex Thanks, I installed the update Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 11:57:52 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:54:27 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: UPDATE: circuit_macros Dwight Aplevich writes: > The file Circuit_macros4.2.tar.gz has been deposited in > ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. Its contents are to replace the directory > ctan/tex-archive/graphics/circuit_macros. > > This version contains refined macros and improved documentation. > Extracts from the README file follow: > > Circuit_macros > > This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit > diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, > and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar > documents. Some tools for block diagrams are also included. The > advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those of > TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses > ordinary character input. > > These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which > is very easy to understand and has a good power/complexity ratio. > Because pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is > well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional > components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or > repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree > structured. Pic is not wysiwyg. Interpreters for the language are > readily available, and some are free. > ... > REQUIRED SOFTWARE: > m4, gpic or equivalent, TeX, a driver recognizing tpic specials > My preferred setup: > m4, dpic (see below), LaTeX, PStricks, dvips, sometimes xfig > ... > CHANGES: > Version 4.2: Friendlier manual. New Xfig prototype file to allow correct > scaling. Cleaned up b_current, added line_leng. Changes and additions > to logic gates. Thanks for the submission; I've installed the package as requested, here at ftp.tex.ac.uk Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Mon Feb 17 12:02:56 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:55:44 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: type1cm package update. My type1cm package for using scalable versions of the CM and AMS fonts has just had a slight update (at Cambridge, other sites when the mirror reaches them) to fix a few typos. The main problem being that it accessed slanted rather than italic and normal weight rather than bold for computer modern Roman as I managed to mistype the font file names. If you have the old version of the package, please update. I am sorry for the inconvenience. David From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Feb 21 05:12:05 1997 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:06:30 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- epslatex.ps Keith Reckdahl writes: > I have uploaded Version 1.9 of epslatex.ps into the /incoming > directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. This replaces Version 1.8b from > June 96 which is currently in the /tex-archive/info directory. > > The section on PSfrag has been re-written to account for > the release of the PSfrag 3.0. Additionally, there were > a significant number of small spring-cleaning changes, > corrections, and clarifications. > > Feel free to send me comments/suggestions/complaints, > > Keith > reckdahl@am-sun2.stanford.edu > > P.S. > The new version also lists my am-sun2 email address, as > my leland address is going the way of the dinosaurs... > > > ========== > > Summary > ------- > epslatex.ps explains how to use Encapsulated PostScript > (EPS) files in LaTeXe documents. > > The graphics and graphicx packages provide commands which > insert, scale, and rotate EPS graphics. The following > EPS-inclusion topics are covered > 1) Compressed EPS files and non-EPS graphic formats > (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.) can also be inserted when > DVIPS is used. Since neither LaTeX nor DVIPS has any > built-in decompression or graphics-conversion > capabilities, that software must be provided by the user. > 2) Since many applications which produce EPS files support only > ASCII text, the PSfrag system allows text in EPS files to be > replaced with LaTeX symbols or mathematical expressions. > 3) When an EPS graphic is inserted multiple times, the final > PostScript includes multiple copies of the graphics, making > the file large. A smaller final PostScript file results from > defining a PostScript command for the graphics. An example of > inserting an EPS graphic in the page header with the > fancyheadings package is provided. > > Various commands are often used in conjunction with EPS > graphics. The following topics are covered in epslatex.ps > 1) the insertion of graphics in figure environments > allows the graphics to float for better formatting and > allows graphics to be referenced > 2) the lscape and rotating packages provide methods for > producing figures with landscape orientation in a portrait > document > 3) methods for arranging side-by-side graphics. The graphics > can be placed in a single figure, in multiple figures > contained in a single float, or in subfigures. > 4) boxed figures can be created with \fbox or the commands > from the fancybox package. > 5) the figure captions can be placed next to the figure or table, > instead of the conventional above or below placement, > 6) the caption2 package adds flexibility to the caption formatting, > allowing users to modify the style, width, and font of captions. > > ========== I've installed the file as requested. Thanks, Keith, for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 21 06:41:09 1997 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:36:46 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- texsk103.zip Tim Bahnes writes: > Site: ftp.dante.de > > Archive: texsk103.zip > > Description: Simple LaTeX drawing program for OS/2 PM. Uses > begin{picture} environment. Short (german) description is included > (file_id.diz). > > Directory: Please place the archive to > /tex-archive/graphics/texsketch/texsk103.zip > > > Tim Bahnes Done. For the CTAN team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Feb 21 06:36:23 1997 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:38:16 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- LGrind 3.4 Michael Piefel writes: > (a) I have uploaded to ftp.dante.de > (b) the file LGrind34.zip, whose contents should go into > (d) support/lgrind > (c) This is the update for LGrind, it completely replaces all old files. > LGrind is a pretty printer to include source code (eg C++ or FORTRAN, > more than 30 languages at the moment) in LaTeX documents. > > Cheers, MPi > > |=| Michael Piefel \ > |=| Technische Universitaet | > |=| Berlin piefel@cs.tu-berlin.de | > \=\ http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mpiefel | Thanks, I installed the update For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Sun Feb 23 16:25:22 1997 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 22:26:49 +0100 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.2 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX 2e] I've just uploaded version 4.1.2 of my CJK package to ftp.dante.de . It will be soon available (unpacked) in the directory tex-archive/languages/chinese/CJK on the CTAN hosts (ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk) and its mirrors (e.g. ftp.cdrom.com). Please note that the `bin' and `rest' part of the package has not been updated; latest version is still 4.1.0 for these two archive files. Below you'll find the release notes of this version. Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package for LaTeX 2e to enable typesetting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It supports (even simultaneously) various CJK encodings, e.g. Big 5, GB, JIS, KS, CNS.] ============================================================================ Version 4.1.2: new: 20-Feb-1997 ntu2cjk ver. 1.6 now supports the Jackson font (a Big 5 encoded PostScript font). cjkspace.el: similar to cjktilde.el for cooperation with AUCTeX. support files for NDOS contributed by KUO Yi-Liang . emTeX support documentation also contributed by KUO Yi-Liang . changed: ttf2pk/src/Makefile: uses -C switch of GNU make now for entering subdirectories. adaptation to LaTeX release 1996/12/01: all .fd files now start with e.g. c00 instead of C00 (nevertheless, the encoding is still called `C00'). all executables are now finished with exit() to avoid additional security holes. Bg5rot.tex renamed to Bg5vert.tex . errors: MakeTTFPK: some sed programs can't understand the `\w' special character (indicating a word constituent character); has been replaced with `.'. it was not possible to open a CJK environment with SJIS encoding a second time (Thomas Piekenbrock ). the same problem existed with UTF 8 encoding; additionally the macros failed for protected arguments. cjktilde.el: if you assigned the minor mode to a key, the status line was not updated. ttf2pk: problems with empty glyphs fixed. problems with invalid index tables will now lead to a warning instead of a fatal error. From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Feb 25 04:37:07 1997 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:30:10 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 15:41:46 +0100 > From: Enrico Bertolazzi > Subject: CTAN Submission -- > > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy.tar.gz1 (easy.tar.gz was not trasmitted correctly due > to a broken on the connection). It contains: > > version 0.5 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package > version 0.4 of the `easytable' package > version 0.3 of the `easybib' package. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. Thanks, I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de. Sorry for the delay, but somehow I didn't notice your mail during my holidays :-( > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easybib} package is > a macro package for writing custom bibliography > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 26 05:14:28 1997 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:06:26 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa bil kleb writes: > attempting to adhere to the instructions in README.uploads: good man... > site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz > brief overview: a bundle of LaTeX/BibTeX macros and > sample documents to aid those producing > papers and journal articles according > to the guidelines of the American Institute > of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) > suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported > > the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named `aiaa' > with one subdirectory `demo'. I've installed the stuff as suggested. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Feb 26 06:14:31 1997 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:10:02 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission --- calendar.tgz Frank Bennett writes: > I am making an interim release of a further upgrade to the > Calendar package. A number of major and minor bugs have been > fixed in this release, and a new style, "timetabl", has been > added, following a suggestion from Miroslav Novak. The file > timetabl.dtx contains the best user level documentation for the > Calendar package that I have come up with so far, and I highly > recommend that you start here if you are interested in using the > package. It's also a really amazing style! 8-) > > In a move to make the package easier to fetch and easier to > maintain, everything you need is now located in subdirectories of > the "calendar" directory in latex/contrib/supported. Numerous > bugfixes and enhancements have been applied to the style files > that make up the core Calendar engine, but have not yet been > merged into the *.dtx files. So to use the new stuff, you should > fetch the style files from the "modules" subdirectory, and leave > the *.dtx files behind. > > The *.dtx files in the "styles" subdirectory should all be okay, > but I note that the timesheets package is broken under the new > system, and needs serious attention that I cannot provide just > now. If you need the timesheets package ... please fix it! > > If you pick up the package and find it useful, I would appreciate > a note. A massive amount of time and effort went into putting > this stuff together, and I would like to know that it is being > used. > > With best regards to all, > Frank G Bennett, Jr @@ > Nagoya Univ School of Law () fbennett@rumple.soas.ac.uk > Tel: (0171)323-6351 () http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~fbennett/ I have installed the package at ftp.tex.ac.uk in macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar (and several subdirectories). Thanks, Frank, for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Mar 3 05:27:30 1997 Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 11:22:07 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-b (fwd) > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 06:12:59 -0400 > From: Aleksander Simonic > Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-b > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN > archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > > The files should be placed in: > > > "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt" > > This is the new release of WinEdt TeX Shell. All bugs in the > previous release have been fixed... Thanks, I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Mar 4 09:03:44 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 13:57:42 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAM Submission --- TTT1.TAZ Beat.Steiner@gseved.admin.ch writes: > Following the README.uploads v 1.4 file, I recently uploaded > the file /incoming/TTT1.TAZ file created by tar cfvz on Linux > and transferred from a Macintosh using Fetch's raw data format > to the site ftp.tex.ac.uk. > > This is yet another Tibetan Transcript Transliterator for LaTeX > which is intended to be uploaded to > /tex-archive/language/tibetan/ttt > or > /tex-archive/language/tibetan/steiner > or whatever you like. > > It consists only of few files not distributed into a directory > hierarchy. It is based on the sirlin package and could therefore > be kept short. I chose language/tibetan/steiner, and have now installed the files. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 10:54:35 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:47:00 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Y&Y Inc , Gabrielle_Rice@bluesky.com Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CM fonts Type 1 format PC version Berthold K.P. Horn writes: > I uploaded two zip files containing the IBM PC version of the 75 CM fonts, > 14 extra LaTeX + SliTeX fonts and 5 LOGO fonts, ready for ATM. > The fonts are in PFB and PFM form, and have the AMS copyright notices. > > I uploaded them to ftp.tex.ac.uk. The files are CMPSA.zip > and CMPSB.zip. The first contains the 40 most commonly used CM > fonts, the latter the other 35 and the LaTeX and LOGO fonts. I have installed these files (in a uniquely CTAN-ish sort of way) under fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky That directory contains -rw-rw-r-- 1 85 TeX 8580 Mar 1 20:40 Manifest.txt drwxrwxr-x 2 85 TeX 8192 Mar 3 14:31 pfb drwxrwxr-x 2 85 TeX 8192 Mar 3 14:31 pfm -rw-rw-r-- 1 85 TeX 3206 Mar 1 21:19 readme Each of the files in the directories pfb/ and pfm/ has a lowercase name: this is significant on Unix systems (such as the CTANs) but not (I trust) on Microsoft systems, such as those Y&Y ships for. The whole TeX community is indebted to Bluesky and Y&Y for their generosity in making these fonts available. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From help@YandY.com Tue Mar 4 20:09:26 1997 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:09:45 -0500 From: Y&Y Inc To: Robin Fairbairns , CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de, info-tex@shsu.edu Cc: Gabrielle_Rice@bluesky.com Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- CM fonts Type 1 format PC version At 03:47 PM 3/4/97 +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >I have installed these files (in a uniquely CTAN-ish sort of way) >under > fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky >That directory contains > -rw-rw-r-- 1 85 TeX 8580 Mar 1 20:40 Manifest.txt > drwxrwxr-x 2 85 TeX 8192 Mar 3 14:31 pfb > drwxrwxr-x 2 85 TeX 8192 Mar 3 14:31 pfm > -rw-rw-r-- 1 85 TeX 3206 Mar 1 21:19 readme >Robin Fairbairns >For the CTAN team Thanks a lot. But. I hate it when people do this, but :=): In `incoming you will find a file called logo.zip which contains PFB files for the 45 LOGO fonts. Someone pointed out that these 5 fonts for some reason did not have (i) version information, (ii) /Notice copyright string and (iii) FamilyName. Since these `revisions' just affect `comments' there is no significant change. If you could just replace the files that are there now please with these. Sorry about that. Thanks. Regards, Berthold. From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 5 05:43:26 1997 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:40:23 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: files uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming Charles Wikner writes: > Greetings, Happy New Year. > CTAN SUBMISSION > > CTAN Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk > Filename: skt1.zip > Overview: Major upgrade to SKT-series Sanskrit font > Directory: /pub/archive/language/sanskrit/ > > Please delete all files currently in that subdirectory, > and replace with the new versions. Done. > Last time you sighed > at having to case convert the file names: I am running > under VMS and cannot do anything about that, so you will > just have to sigh again. Sorry about that! But the world has moved on since last time, and I *don't* any longer have to muck around with ot1skt.fd -- LaTeX has given up on demanding mixed-case file names. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Mar 6 14:15:30 1997 Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:25:56 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN-Submission -- hyper (update) Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper-package: > > (a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk > (b) File: /incoming/hyper.zip > (c) Description: > The package inserts hypertext-markups for LaTeX2e > documents into the dvi-file. > Differences to earlier versions: > * minor bug fixes > * now handles nested markups > * now checks for anchor-existance and -changes > (d) Location: > The new version replaces the old one at > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper Thanks: I've installed the update as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Mar 10 07:25:35 1997 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:20:30 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- uaclasses Marcel Oliver writes: > I have uploaded the file uaclasses.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > The file contains minor bug fixes and should replace > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/uaclasses/ > > Below the copy of the README file: > ==================================================================== > > Readme file for the package "ua-classes". Date: 1997/03/08 > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > This package provides a LaTeX2e document class named 'ua-thesis' for > typesetting theses and dissertations in the official format required by the > University of Arizona. Moreover, there is a fully compatible alternative > document class 'my-thesis' for private "nice" copies of the dissertation, > and the respective title pages are available as separate packages to work > with "any" document class. > > > The distribution contains the following files: > > README This file. > > ua-classes.dtx User guide and documented source code. > Run 'latex ua-classes.dtx' to obtain user documentation. > > ua-classes.ins Installation file. > Run 'latex ua-classes.ins' to install the package. > Generates the following files: > ua-thesis.cls, my-thesis.cls, ua-title.sty, my-title.sty > > ua-example.tex An example dissertation generated from the University > of Arizona Manual for Theses and Dissertations. > > ua-example.dvi Example output formatted with ua-thesis.cls > and the draft option (from 'ua-example.tex') > > my-example.dvi Example output formatted with my-thesis.cls > > > The following software needs to be installed on the user's system: > > LaTeX version 2e, December 1994 or later > AMS-LaTeX version 1.2, October 1996 or later > AMSFonts version 2.0, January 1995 or later > > > Changes from release 1996/12/05: > > Fixed placement and fonts of captions in my-thesis.cls > Fixed required release date of AMS macros > > > Send comments to: > > Marcel Oliver moliver@math.uci.edu Thanks for the upload. I have installed the files as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Mar 11 11:28:37 1997 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:21:38 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop package (fwd) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:02:27 +0100 From: Olaf Kummer To: zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop package > I have uploaded to the incoming directory of ftp.dante.de the file > ethiop.tar. The tar-file should be untared, the resulting files > should be placed in the directory > /tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/ > and a symbolic link at > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/ethiop > should point to that directory, since the package > contains both fonts and TeX macros. Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files as requested plus a symbolic link from macros/latex/contrib/supported/ethiop to language/ethiopia/ethiop/latex. > >From the README: > > Ethiopian Language Support for the Babel Package > > This is a collection of fonts and TeX macros that > enable you to typeset the characters of the languages > of Ethiopia. > > The fonts are based on EthTeX which was originally distributed > by Abass B. Alamnehe. > > The TeX macros use the Babel package by Johannes L. Braams. > > Prerequisites for this package: > - TeX and Metafont > - LaTeX2e with a release date of 1996/12/01 > - Babel with a release date of 1997/01/23 > > The package is supported. Queries go to > ethiop@informatik.uni-hamburg.de by email. But please send further upload announcements not to me but to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de ! Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 03:49:15 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:44:20 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission - deleq, vrsion, achemso, and dropping packages (fwd) > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 07:08:03 +0100 > From: Mats Dahlgren > Subject: CATN submission - deleq, vrsion, achemso, and dropping packages > To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN > > A moment ago, I submitted to the DANTE CTAN node a couple of files to > the /incoming/matsd directory. Please place the files on CTAN in > directories as follows: > /latex/contrib/supported/deleq 00readme.dlq > deleq.dtx > deleq.ins > /latex/contrib/supported/achemso 00readme.acs > achemso.dtx > achemso.ins > /latex/contrib/supported/vrsion 00readme.vrs > vrsion.dtx > vrsion.ins > /latex/contrib/other/dropping 00readme.drp > dropping.dtx > dropping.ins > Also, please delete the directories /latex/contrib/other/deleq, > /latex/contrib/other/achemso, and /latex/contrib/other/vrsion. The > submitted files all are updates of my packages 'deleq', 'achemso', > 'vrsion', and 'dropping', respectively. Brief description of the > packages: > > deleq Provides a flexible partial numbering of equations (3a, 3b, > ...) as well as repeating equation numbers when equations > are repeated. > achemso Provides a LaTeX & BibTeX combined package for bibliographies > according to the standard of The American Chemical Society. > vrsion Is a package which puts version numbers on (successfully > compiled) .dvi files. > dropping Is a LaTeX2e version of the 'dropcaps' package; 'dropping' is > also slightly more "automatic" in the choice of sizes and > typefaces for the "dropped" text. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. They will soon spread to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. > Thanks to the LaTeX3 and CTAN teams for an excellent service to us plain > LaTeX users! You're welcome! Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 03:52:55 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:51:33 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN-submission (fwd) > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 20:31:51 +0100 > From: Axel Kielhorn > Subject: CTAN-submission > > I'm a little late with my update, but here it is: > > I put refman.tar and akletter.tar into the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de. > > They contain the most recent version of my packages, synced with LaTeX > 1996/12/01. > > No new features. > > Both packages are supported. Thanks fur the contribution. I replaced the old versions in macros/latex/contrib/supported/{akletter,refman} Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From robert@SUMMA.PHYSIK.HU-BERLIN.DE Wed Mar 12 05:35:27 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:32:41 +0100 From: Robert Lieske To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: /incoming/winedt.support/ Hi, I have sent you a mail yesterday regarding the upload of the files tools.zip, de2.txt and de09.zip in directory /income/winedt.support/ I have sent the mail to CTAN@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de as described in Readme.uploads Someone told me, that this file is mirrored from the server in UK. Is it possible that noone feels responsible for placing the files from /incoming/winedt.support/ at ftp.dante.de to their destination /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/support/dict/ ? I got several mails that the upload is not there. Please tell me, what has gone wrong. If I have to contact someone else, please let me know. (don't worry, its just a question) Regards, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Lieske robert@summa.physik.hu-berlin.de Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin phone: +49 (030) 2093-7896 Institut fuer Physik fax: +49 (030) 2093-7638 Invalidenstrasse 110 10115 Berlin ================================================================== From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Mar 12 05:38:54 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:37:12 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- aiaa Bil Kleb writes: > site uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > file uploaded as: incoming/aiaa.tar.gz > brief overview: a bundle of LaTeX/BibTeX files and sample > documents to aid those producing papers > and journal articles according to the > guidelines of the American Institute > of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) > suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/supported > [version: 1.0 (3 mar 97)] > > the gnu-zipped tar file unpacks into its own directory, named `aiaa' > with one subdirectory `demo' and a README.aia file. I have installed the files as requested, replacing the old v0.9 ones. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 12 16:39:24 1997 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:35:39 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd131.zip (fwd) > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:34:54 +0100 > From: Frank Stippich > Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd131.zip > > I have uploaded TeXEd131.zip. > > Please install this file into the pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory Thanks for the submission. I installed the file as requested. >From the ReadMe.txt file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FSS - TeX Editor V1.3 (8/96) FSS-TeXEdit provide an easy interface for LaTeX2e, dvips, Ghostscript and ispell. Most actions can be done like in common writing programmes but you will have all features of LaTeX2e. Read this overview, try TeXEdit and you will not live without it any more. TeXEdit was written and developed in german. After some people asked me for an english version I have started a first translation. It took more time as I thought, but now I have a first result. Of course you will find some errors (particularly in the INF file) but feel free to send me a bug report. I try to complete the help file soon. I am sure that it takes some time to finish the INF file, but I want to place TeXEdit at your disposal now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some features: - 32bit multi-threaded design which is able to handle long file names. - Easiest way to build TeX source files with 'pull-down' and 'click-up' menus, or with drag and drop. - Address data base included. - Shortcuts for macros - Text modules - The way of formating is the same as in common programmes: Select text and choose the formating command (bold, center, rotate etc.). - The menu bar provides access to more than 150 LaTeX-commands. - Input of (mathematic or special) characters with preview. - Supports dvips and LaTeX2e. - One shell as console for all programmes - Templates - Quick access window with all captions, which is able to move the text to the selected caption. - Comfortable editing of several files - ReXX interface - Automatic insertion of EPS, PCX and HPGL files by drag and drop. - Drag and drop - for import commands (EPS, PCX, HPGL, TeX) - for deleting the window - for (formated) printing - Help for LaTeX commands (F1) and access to all with emTeX distributed INF files. - Support of extern speller. - Preload option for a quick startup. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Systemrequirements: - OS/2 2.1 or higher - 1,8 MB disk space - VGA minimum 800x600 recommended - 12 MB RAM recommended (for simultaneous use of TeXEdit, Previewer and TeX) - Installed emTeX distribution - dvips, Ghostscript and hp2xx recommended -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: The installation procedure is described in TeXEdit.INF. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc: FSS-TeXEdit is shareware. You may use this programme (which provides nearly all features of the registered version) for a testing period. If you find FSS-TeXEdit useful, please register. After adding your registration code to TexEdit the following features will be available: - The status bar can be closed - The macro interface will be available. You can write your own macros and you've access to some useful macros provided with TeXEdit - You're allowed to open as many files as you want at one time. - The data base will save more than 5 addresses. - The text module option will be available. - The 'printing with options' will work - The 'next error' Button will work The registration of TeXEdit will cost $50. It is a live time registration. You don't have to pay for any newer version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Mar 13 02:23:21 1997 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:21:05 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: New version of COVINGTON.STY > From: Michael Covington > To: ling-tex@ifi.uio.no (ling-tex), linguist@tamvm.tamu.edu > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 14:21:57 -0500 (EST) > > I've just released a new version of COVINGTON.STY, my LaTeX macro package > for linguistics. This one supports a convenient way of putting multiple > accents on a single letter. You will need the two files 'covington.sty' > and 'covington.tex', which are available by FTP from ai.uga.edu, > directory /pub/tex, or by following links on my web page. Enjoy! I installed the new files on CTAN in the directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/covington. The obsolete version in tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/covington has been removed. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Mar 13 02:35:29 1997 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:33:55 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:03:24 +0100 > From: Robert Lieske > Subject: CTAN Submission -- > > I have uploaded some files to /income/winedt.support/ > > (a) the file is uploaded at ftp.dante.de > (b) the files are: de09.zip, de2.txt and tools.zip > (c) the file de09.zip contains a german dictionary, intended for use > with WinEdt. the file tools.zip contains some tools (a word-makro > and a pascal program) that are useful for WinEdt-users (creating > future dictionaries). The pascal program can also be used for > maintaining future uploads and is not dependend on german > dictionary only. > (d) the suggested directory is > /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/support/dict/ > You can also use > /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/support/ Thanks for the contribution. After some discussion, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/de2.{txt,zip} /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict/support/tools.zip They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From luzia.dietsche@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Fri Mar 14 05:14:35 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:09:38 +0100 From: Luzia Dietsche To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: /incoming/winedt.support/ Robert Lieske schrieb am 12.3.1997, 11:32:41 > I have sent you a mail yesterday regarding the upload ^^^^^^^^^ > of the files tools.zip, de2.txt and de09.zip in directory > /income/winedt.support/ > > Someone told me, that this file is mirrored from the server in UK. and this person hopefully told you also, that the work at ctan ist done by volunteers in their spare time? one day ist really not too much time... > Please tell me, what has gone wrong. If I have to contact > someone else, please let me know. you have to do what is descriped in the readme file in the incoming directory. that's enough. -- luzia dietsche From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Mar 14 06:50:46 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:44:05 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Update to aguplus bundle on CTAN P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes: > I have uploaded the following files to dante /incoming/aguplus > as an update to my bundle in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus > > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4387 Mar 14 12:12 README.pwd > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 34409 Mar 14 12:12 agu.bst > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 40207 Mar 14 12:08 aguplus.cls > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 39444 Mar 14 12:08 aguplus.sty > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 44281 Mar 14 12:10 aguplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4849 Mar 14 12:12 changes.v15c > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11636 Mar 14 12:11 samplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 13109 Mar 14 12:12 shorthnd.tex > > Please copy them to that directory, and remove changes.v15b Thanks for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From jschrod@acm.org Fri Mar 14 13:31:13 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:59:53 +0100 From: Joachim Schrod To: Robin Fairbairns Cc: metafont@ens.fr, tex-fonts@math.utah.edu Subject: Re: Malyshev's work >>>>> "RF" == Robin Fairbairns writes: RF> Hence his original restrictions on use by commercial RF> organisations. RF> ISTR that someone's given him some money somehow, and the restrictions RF> have been lifted. Have they? The README on CTAN doesn't tell so. BaKoMa Fonts ``cannot be sold or distributed with any commercial product or used in any commercial organization without additional agreement with author.'' IMO they even cannot be distributed on CDs without checks, as ``If you want to charge a small fee via distribution these fonts or any derivations from this fonts, you should contact the author.'' Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Net & Publication Consultance GmbH Tel.: +49-6074-861530 Roedermark, Germany Fax: +49-6074-861531 From ms@DREAM.HB.NORTH.DE Fri Mar 14 15:22:08 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 20:13:13 +0100 From: Martin Schroeder To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Shutdown of CTAN server ftp.dante.de >From: Rainer Schoepf >Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,de.comp.text.tex >Subject: Shutdown of CTAN server ftp.dante.de >Message-ID: <76hgiedesh.fsf@stinki.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> >Date: 14 Mar 1997 10:05:34 +0100 Tomorrow (Sat 14 Mar 1997) ftp.dante.de will be shut down at 8:30 GMT until about 14:00 GMT. -- Rainer Schöpf End of forwarded message. -- Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.HB.North.DE Doch Tag um Tag verging, ein Jahr l"oste das andere ab, der Flaum um das Kinn verwandelte sich in einen kr"aftigen Bart, an die Stelle der leuchtenden Augen traten zwei matte Punkte, der Taillenumfang nahm zu, das Haar begann sich unbarmherzig zu lichten, es schlug drei"sig -- und er war auf keinem einzigen Gebiet auch nur einen Schritt vorw"artsgekommen und stand noch immer an der Schwelle seiner Lebensarena: genau dort, wo er vor zehn Jahren gestanden hatte. -- Iwan A. Gontscharow, Oblomow ("Ubers: J. Hahn) From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Mar 16 04:01:26 1997 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 09:57:48 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- grnumalt (fwd) > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 20:21:59 +0200 > From: Apostolos Syropoulos > Subject: CTAN Submission -- grnumalt > > I have uploaded the small package grnumalt to ftp.dante.de as > grnumalt.tar.gz > The bundle contains two files: grnumalt.dtx and grnumalt.ins > The package implements a numbering system used in ancient Athens, so > it produces the "Athenian" numeral for a any positive arabic numeral. > The package can be used as a means to provide alternative counters. > Please, note that we have incorporated the normal greek numbering system > in the latest version of the greek option files of the babel package. > I think the package should be placed at either > macros/latex/contrib/other or languages/greek Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de suggested in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From carlisle@MA.MAN.AC.UK Mon Mar 17 11:08:49 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:00:53 +0000 (GMT) From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX Lucida Bright and MathTime packages updated (psnfss) The LaTeX support for Lucida Bright and MathTime in ctan:macros/latex/packages/psnfss has just been updated, as outlined below. David Changes to lucidabr package (thanks to Jean-Pierre Vial) * Extra code to compensate for the AMS LaTeX redefinitions of the arrowfill and overarrow commands if the amsmath package is also loaded. * Typo fix in \Longrightarrow. * Add options to control font tracing information, copied from mathtime package. Changes to mathtime package (thanks to James Ashton) * Define \fnsymbol in a manner that works with the alternative math encodings as used by this package. * Fix the encoding used for the mh2 script font (Previous version had A repeated twice) * Add missing \ProvidesFile command to umh2scr.fd From AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Mon Mar 17 14:45:07 1997 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:41:42 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Hoenig To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Setting up math fonts I have had placed a package called MathInst in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area of CTAN. The `readme' file follows... If you've ever wanted to typeset proper mathematics using Caslon or Garamond or Baskerville or whatever types, MathInst may be of use to you. It allows you to create proper math fonts for use by TeX and LaTeX. You need to tell it the family of Roman types you want to use and the raw math fonts---MathTime, Euler, or Lucida New Math---you can supply, and this script does the rest. All of MathInst's fonts are properly scaled for compatibility with the Roman fonts. If you supply the name of a typewriter and sans serif font as well, MathInst will not only create fonts that respond to the NFSS commands \mathsf and \mathtt, it will also scale these fonts properly to match the Roman math fonts. If you supply the name of a calligraphic, fraktur, blackboard bold, and Greek bold font, MathInst will create matching fonts and commands for their use. In particular, if a Greek bold is present, MathInst will create bold math fonts. MathInst also creates two style files---one for use by NFSS (LaTeX) and one for plain TeX. There are also two matching test files, so you can not only test the fonts, but see how to access these fonts in a TeX document. At the end, MathInst places all your new fonts in their proper places, whether you use a traditional or a TDS TeX system. For many additional details, please read the (LaTeX) file `mathinst.tex' which accompanies this material, all of which can be found in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area of CTAN. Please forward comments and bug reports to me (Alan Hoenig) at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Mar 18 14:43:03 1997 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:39:28 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- web2c-7.0 for win32, update (fwd) > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:54:58 +0100 > From: Fabrice POPINEAU > Subject: CTAN Submission -- web2c-7.0 for win32, update > > I have uploaded an update of web2c for win32 in the following > directory: > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/web2c-win32 > > There are 3 files: > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 6537550 Mar 18 16:38 7.0.1-win32-src.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4243699 Mar 18 16:28 7.0.1-win32.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 6476 Mar 18 16:38 README.win32 > > They should replace the corresponding files in > CTAN:systems/win32/web2c > (ie: do not delete tar.exe and gzip.exe from the directory) > > The reasons for the update are: > > - pdftex.exe included > - MakeTeXtfm.exe and MakeTeXmf.exe included > - numerous bug fixes to MakeTeX*.exe > - printable chars for tex.exe (locale dependent) > - lots of optimizations for tex.exe, mf.exe, mpost.exe and others too > > README.win32 has been updated. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in CTAN:systems/win32/web2c, renaming the archives to web2c-7.0.1-win32-src.tar.gz and web2c-7.0.1-win32.tar.gz (corresponding to the old files web2c-7.0-...) Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Mar 19 05:30:43 1997 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:26:04 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Natbib update > I have just uploaded three files to dante /incoming/natbib > plainnat.bst > abbrvnat.bst > unsrtnat.bst > > > which should be put into the macros/latex/contrib/supported/natbib > directory replacing the files of the same names there. Done. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From AJHJJ@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Wed Mar 19 09:23:47 1997 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Hoenig To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: setting up text fonts for (La)TeX My vfinst package for making scalable text fonts work with TeX and LaTeX has been updated; it is in the fonts/utilities/vfinst area of CTAN. Among the most substantive changes: 1. All fonts now include the dotlessj (for better conformity with the original tex fonts); and 2. VFinst now provides underline variants of upright and italic fonts. Here's the complete readme file: If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or \LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you. At the end of the VFinst process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the usual \TeX\ conventions. Here are the fonts you get at the end of the process. * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font. * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font. * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display) fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font, if the appropriate raw fonts were present. VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts, if these raw fonts were originally present. You also get test files for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX document. Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you according to the fontname2.1 conventions. All oblique and italic fonts use the true italic angle for the font. The dvips map file psfonts.map will have been updated for you. All fonts will have been placed in the proper area on your hard disk. You may choose original TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or `traditional' standard. All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding. All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file vfinst.tex. PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY FONT INSTALLATIONS. Please feel free to get in touch with me; my email is ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. All comments, bugs, suggestions for improvement, and criticism cheerfully accepted. Alan Hoenig ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu March 1997 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Mar 22 10:05:31 1997 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:02:07 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX (fwd) > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:34:21 +0100 > From: Koaunghi Un > Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX > > I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.96 in /incoming/HLaTeX > ... > HLaTeX-0.96.tar.gz is a LaTeX macro package, to process Korean LaTeX > documents written in Korean Standard Coding System. > README is a file with a short hints about the distributed fonts files. > All other files are fonts to be used in HLaTeX. > > All fonts files starting with initial "p", are PostScript fonts. > Johab-Hangul-*.tar.gz are pre-made pk/tfm files used in old HLaTeX. > All other files are source/vf/tfm files for MetaFont. > > I wish, HLaTeX-0.96.tar.gz is unpacked in the directory of > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX after cleaning up the previous > contents of that directory. > > All fonts files including README can be moved to the directory of > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX > after cleaning the previous contents of that directory. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested replacing the old version. They will soon be copied to ftp.tex.ac.uk and the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Mar 24 02:00:08 1997 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:56:03 +0100 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission --- Mla.zip (fwd) > Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 17:38:20 -0500 > From: Thomas Weissert > Subject: CTAN submission --- Mla.zip > > Uploaded to Dante > mla.zip > > This archive contains the updated version of: > mla.sty > mlaa.bst > mla.bst > > This is the bibliography style I created to match the Modern Language > Association's manual of style. > This updated version correst a few bugs and in addition, > I have added an annotated version: mlaa.bst Thanks for the submission. On ftp.dante.de, I replaced the old version in tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/mla. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From wschmi@ibm.net Mon Mar 24 15:58:01 1997 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:49:19 +0100 (MET) From: Walter Schmidt To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: EC Concrete fonts and LaTeX support Now available on the CTAN: fonts/ecc contains the METAFONT sources and tfm files of the *** EUROPEAN CONCRETE FONTS (v0.9) *** This is the EC implementation of Knuth's Concrete fonts, including also the corresponding text companion fonts. macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts contains LaTeX font definition files for the Concrete fonts and a LaTeX package for typesetting documents using Concrete as the default font family. The files support OT1, T1, TS1, and Concrete math incl. AMS fonts (Ulrik Vieth's concmath). Both packages are still `beta' versions; changes are to be expected! Comments and bug reports are welcome; please, send them to the author: Walter Schmidt Schornbaustr. 2, 91052 Erlangen, Germany From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Mar 26 08:18:19 1997 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:15:47 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- oztex-german Lothar Meyer-Lerbs writes: > Hi, > Uploaded to ftp.dante.de:/incoming/oztex-german > you'll find the replacement for > /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german > > All German OzTeX users should upgrade :) > > \bye Lothar (DANTE Mac-Coordinator) Thanks, I installed the new version. It will propagate to other CTAN hosts in due course. For the CTAN team Rainer Schöpf From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Apr 3 02:52:34 1997 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 09:46:38 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.961 (fwd) > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:28:20 +0200 > From: Koaunghi Un > Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.961 > > I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.961 in /incoming > > HLaTeX-0.961.tar.gz is a LaTeX macro package, to process Korean LaTeX > documents written in Korean Standard Coding System. This version is a > bug-fix version for HLaTeX-0.96, which I've uploaded ca. 2 weeks before. > > I wish, HLaTeX-0.961.tar.gz is unpacked in the directory of > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX after cleaning up the previous > contents of that directory. Thanks for your contribution, I installed the new files as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Apr 3 04:14:05 1997 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:10:05 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX-german update (fwd) > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:01:08 +0100 > From: Lothar Meyer-Lerbs > Subject: CTAN Submission -- OzTeX-german update > > I just put a little update to the > /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german > directory on ftp.dante.de at /incoming/oztex-german > please > mv /incoming/oztex-german/* /pub/tex/systems/mac/oztex-german > \thanks Lothar Meyer-Lerbs (DANTE Mac-Coordinator) Done as requested Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 3 06:26:36 1997 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 12:21:15 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ltoh Russell Quong writes: > (a) tried to upload to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > [Ftp crashed after it had said it sent all the bytes.] The file passes gzip integrity tests, so I presume it's OK > (b) 1 File uploaded: ltoh.tgz > (c) Customizable Latex -> HTML converter. It's a big Perl script. > See the ltoh web page: www.best.com/~quong/ltoh > (d) Suggest placing in: > ctan/support/ltoh/ I have installed the contents of the .tgz file in support/ltoh as requested. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 3 06:27:45 1997 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 12:25:31 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission ccfonts.zip Walter Schmidt writes: > Description > =========== > > Updated version (0.95) of the LaTeX support for the Concrete > fonts: > > Bug fixes: > > -- names of fd files changed to lowercase > -- added missing support for text companion fonts in the > installation script > > Major changes: > > -- changed font substitutions for the missing boldface font > series in the fd files I have installed the files Walter is talking about to macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts, as requested (replacing the earlier version). Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Apr 5 09:57:57 1997 Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 15:54:00 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvgtk-0.2.tar.gz Tomasz J. Cholewo wrote: > I uploaded dvgtk-0.2.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk /incoming directory. It > should be unpacked in the CTAN/dviware directory. A short description > of the package follows: > > dvgtk-0.2 is a beta release of a DVI file previewer for Tektronix 4010 > terminal emulators like Kermit, CONEX, or NCSA Telnet. It is derived > from the dvgt-3.51 package. The original authors were Andrew Trevorrow, > Ian Dall, and Geoffrey Tobin. > > New features in this release: > > 1. Uses Kpathsea library: finds fonts according to the texmf.cnf > settings, MakeTeXPK/gsftopk is called as needed. > > 2. Installation integrated with web2c-7.0 source tree structure. > > 3. Uses configure to simplify installation process. > > 4. Now works with dvicopy output what enables previewing documents with > virtual fonts. > > 5. Shows bounding boxes of included Postscript figures. > > 6. Uses getopt library for option processing what allows for greater > flexibility in command line syntax. > > 7. General code cleanup. > > Terminal support is now limited to Tektronix 4010 emulations only. I missed the upload announcement in the 2.9Mbytes of mail that awaited me when I got back on 2nd April -- sorry. Thanks for the upload; I've installed it in dviware/dvgtk at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll propagate soon-ish. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Apr 7 05:38:18 1997 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 09:29:44 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission word2x.tar.gz Duncan Simpson writes: > I have uploaded my word 6 to ftp.tex.ac.uk. It probably lives in the tools directory besides > rtf2latex and such, The currently supported output formats are text > and LaTeX (with limited equation support, due to a lack of samples). > Pictures are not supported and it is supplied under the GPL in the > hope that it will be useful to some people. word2x.tar.gz contains > C++ source code and complies cleanly on my Linux 2.1.30, libc 5.4.27 > (ELF) system. It uses GNU getopt_long to parse the arguments which > causes problems on some systems. > > Finally it understands a lot less than you might think. Most of the > sustructure of a` document is guesswork based on context, which > seems it seems to be quite good at. Omprovements and information > about word 6 format should be emailed to dps@duncan.telstar.net > (information and a patch to make use of the said information and > especially welcome). I have installed the code as tools/word2x, as Duncan suggests. The installation was at ftp.tex.ac.uk -- it'll migrate to the rest of the CTAN system soon-ish. Thanks for the upload (I'm copying this explicitly to Wilfried Hennings, so that he can incorporate the information in his word processor convertor FAQ). Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 8 05:04:48 1997 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:53:54 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission Andreas Scherer writes: > I have uploaded the archive file > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/cwebbin-p14.tar.gz > > containing the latest results of my work on CWEB 3.4g. In addition > to the original CWEB functionality I added a large collection of > change files (to be applied with TIE) to make the original sources > usable with ANSI-C/C++ compilers. Extra functionality is introduced > and documented in the archive. > > As indicated by the name, CWEBBIN comes with precompiled binaries > of CTANGLE, CWEAVE, and WMERGE for various systems, currently AmigaOS > and Win32 (tested with WinNT). > > I would appreciate if you could replace "patch level 13" at > > CTAN:web/c_cpp/cwebbin/cwebbin-p13.tar.gz > > by the new archive file. > > Oops, as I see from the cwebbin directory, there is the file > README.p13 for the last version. This should be replaced by the > updated documentation README.p14. I'm writing this e-mail _after_ > submitting the TGZ file to /incoming, so I choose to add the > README.p14 file, too. I'm sorry not to follow the recommended > use of a subdirectory this time. I commit to do better next time. > Please, install the file > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/README.p14 > > together with the archive file. > > Kind regards, > > -- Andreas@Ono-Sendai-VII.Chiba_City > http://www.or.rwth-aachen.de/zor/martadr.htm Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested and made cwebbin.tar.gz a symbolic link to cwebbin-p14.tar.gz For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 8 08:18:17 1997 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:14:51 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- meta-mode.el Ulrik Vieth writes: > I have just uploaded version 1.0 of "meta-mode.el" to ftp.dante.de. > I suggest installing it in the /support/emacs-modes directory. > > meta-mode.el is a GNU Emacs Lisp package that implements a major mode > for editing Metafont or MetaPost sources. It provides many features > commonly found in Emacs editing modes for programming languages, > such as automatic indenting of source code, syntactic highlighting > (a.k.a. fontification), symbol completion, as well as miscellaneous > other basic editing functions adapted to the mode-specific semantics > such as motion commands or commands to mark, reindent, or comment-out > environments or regions. > > meta-mode.el has been developed over the last two months, during which > time some preliminary versions have been made available by postings to > the Usenet newsgroup gnu.emacs.sources and the Metafont mailing list. > Version 1.0 released now is intended to become a stable release that > will also be submitted for integration into the GNU Emacs distribution > as requested by Richard Stallman. Further development will be confined > to writing add-on packages that may be merged back into meta-mode.el > from time to time. > > Emacsen compatibility: meta-mode.el has been developed primarily under > GNU Emacs 19.34 and has only been briefly tested under XEmacs 19.14. > I am not aware of any serious compatibility problems, except perhaps > for the need of some of the more arcane features of Font Lock mode. > > Comments and suggestions as well as feedback in case of any problems > is welcome. > > > Happy Metafont'ing or MetaPost'ing, > > Cheers, Ulrik. Thanks a lot, Ulrik, I installed the file as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 8 11:01:55 1997 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 14:57:28 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Cmd Line Shell Juan M. Aguirregabiria writes: > a) Site: ftp.tex.ac.uk > b) File: cmdsh100.exe and cmdsh100.txt > c) Description: > > If you are a power user you probably use old DOS or new Win32 programs > designed to be run from the command line where the corresponding options > are indicated. To start with, many file maintenance jobs are far easier > when using command line utilities and batch files. The "user-friendly" > way to do many simple tasks (comparing two directories or copying to the > disk the relevant modified files of you current programming task, for > instance) is boring and error prone. Unix-like filters also are still > very useful. > > Any advanced user has a lot of command line programs in her system, but > if you do not use them very often it is not always easy to remember the > right option to do something. > > Cmd Line Shell is designed to be a shell for any command line program. > * It provides a common, easily configurable, GUI look to any > program which takes its options from the command line. > * It will help you to prepare the command line and launch the > external program. (You may also copy the command line to use it, say, > form a batch file.) > * You do not have to remember the syntax: the available options > and their use are displayed. > * You may easily search through your system for the input and > output files. > * Your favorite options may be set as new default. > > This program is designed to be used, for instance, with > * the Console utilities by the same author, > * the PostScript utilities included, for instance, in the > excellent free implementation of TeX by Christian Schenk: MiKTeX 1.07, > which is available from CTAN mirrors > (ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex/ and > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex), > * the epstool which comes with the last release of Ghostscript and > GSview ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/), > * many GNU utilities. > > The Definition Files (where the interface is defined) for many of these > programs are provided (though you might need to change a line to specify > the directory where your copy of each program is located). > > d) Suggeted directory: systems/win32/util I've installed the files as suggested. They'll propagate to the rest of the CTAN system shortly. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Apr 9 11:16:08 1997 Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:10:54 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- new-tfms Koaunghi Un writes: > First of all, I thank you for your work in maintaining CTAN. Thanks, you're most welcome. > I've uploaded two files in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de. > > new-tfms.eng > new-tfms.tar.gz > > These files belong to the Korean LaTeX package, HLaTeX. > > Some tfm files distributed with HLaTeX-0.96 were wrong in checksum. > I've corrected this problem. > > I want these two files to be placed in > > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX/fonts Thanks, I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Wed Apr 9 18:34:40 1997 Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:32:46 +0200 From: Johannes L. Braams To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: supertabular version 4.0e Hi, Yesterday I made version 4.0e of the package supertabular avaliable on CTAN. Since the last announced release a number of things have happened: - The source is now .dtx file - The process that decides when to break the tabular and move on to the next page has been rethought and enhanced. - the internal macro \tableformat has become \ST@tableformat - Made a normal tabular in a cell of a supertabular work. - fixed some bugs. Kind regards, Johannes Braams From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Apr 10 05:23:20 1997 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:19:43 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission help/wp-conv/texcnv* Wilfried Hennings writes: > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de/incoming > the following file (binary mode, from isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de): > > wp-conv.zip > > containing updates of the files > texcnven.txt > texcnvde.txt > and the new file > texcnven.html > to be replaced/added > in .../tex-archive/help/wp-conv/ > > > Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Hennings c./o. > Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, ISR > D-52425 Juelich, Germany > Tel. (+49) 2461 61 5570 ; Fax (G3+G4) (+49) 2461 61 8254 > my pgp public key: ftp://isr016.isr.kfa-juelich.de/wh.asc > FZJ home: http://www.kfa-juelich.de/ > ISR home: http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/ > All opinions mentioned are strictly my own. Thanks a lot, I installed the update at ftp.dante.de from where it will propagate to the other CTAN hosts in due course. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Apr 14 03:10:05 1997 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:07:27 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-c (fwd) > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:10:44 -0300 > From: Aleksander Simonic > Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt TeX Shell 1.41-c > > I uploaded the files which are to be contributed to the CTAN > archive to: > > ftp.dante.de /incoming/winedt > /incoming/winedt/dict > > The files should be placed in: > > "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt" > "tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict" (respectively) > > The new files should overwrite the old ones when they already > exist. Thanks for the contribution. I installed the new version of your text editor and shell for Win32 as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Mon Apr 14 05:45:36 1997 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:37:51 +0200 From: Gerd Neugebauer To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BibTool 2.40 The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. BibTool 2.40 is on the CTAN since the end of last week in the following directory: /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ Recent changes: The distribution contains a pre-alpha release of BibTcl. This is a library of Tcl commands to manipulate BibTeX files. COMMENTS ARE WELCOME. - Version 2.40 Sorting uses the new key instead of the old one as before. This has not been specified, but the new behaviour might be more intuitive. key.format=empty fixed. key.format short.need and long.need are aliases for new.short and new.long resp. Some error messages slightly improved. Minor print bug fixed: additional commas appeared when the last field was deleted. Typo in documentation: I had typed preserve.key instead of preserve.keys. Some additional examples in the documentation. Field deletetion completely covered by the rewriting mechanism. delete.field is kept for backward compatibility as an alias. A web page is available under the URL http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/ I append the README file of BibTool below. ====================================================================== ###### ############ ####### ############ ## ## ## ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### ====================================================================== BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities --- and intentions --- of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters. * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful error messages. * Semantic checks can be specified by the user. * Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free definable sort key. * Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to an own specification. * Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an .aux file. * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions). * Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules. * Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions. * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases. BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX of more than 40 pages (and still growing) BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in source code. No compiled versions are available from the author (Useless to ask!) BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ or directly from the home site. * ftphost.uni-koblenz.de:/outgoing/gene/BibTool Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the installation instructions in the file INSTALL. A WWW page is available under the URL * http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/BibTool.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy it! Gerd Neugebauer gerd@informatik.uni-koblenz.de From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Apr 14 11:32:24 1997 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:26:46 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hypht1.tex Bernd Raichle writes: > I have uploaded an update of `hypht1.tex', the additional hyphenation > patterns needed to use T1 encoded fonts with \hyphenchar\font != `-. > > > (a) site: ftp.dante.de > > (b) file(s): hypht1.tex > > (c) brief overview: > hypht1.tex contains additional hyphenation patterns which have > to be loaded in conjunction with each "normal" set of > patterns. It contains patterns to allow hyphenation after an > explicit - letter, which are needed if you want to use > e.g. the second hyphen character (\char127) of the EC fonts or > any other T1 encoded font as \hyphenchar\font. > hypht1.tex v0.2 fixes some bugs of v0.1 (look for \changes), > additionally it _disallows_ hyphenation after -- and --- for > the sake of the missing ligatures of --/--- with \char127 of > EC fonts v1.0. > > (d) recommended place: > language/hyphenation/hypht1.tex (replacing v0.1) Thanks a lot, I installed your update at ftp.dante.de from where it will eventually propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Apr 16 03:05:17 1997 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:00:56 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry (fwd) > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:43:46 +0900 > From: UMEKI Hideo > Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry > > I have uploaded the new version of the `geometry' package (v1.06) > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry-1.06.tar.gz. > > Change from 1.05: > reversemarginpar supported > > Please replace the directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. Thanks for the contribution. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested, it will soon spread the the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. For the uninitiated (copied from the geometry.dtx file): % This package allows \LaTeXe\ users to customize the page layout % (page size) by an easy and flexible user interface |\geometry|. % One can realize the above page layout by putting, for example, % \begin{quote} % |\usepackge{geometry}|\\ % |\geometry{body={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=2cm, nohead}| % \end{quote} % in the preamble. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 17 08:42:53 1997 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:37:28 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- mf2tex Robert Spalek writes: > i submitted package mf2tex.tgz to ftp.tex.ac.uk > > this package contains macros in TeX and METAFONT, which allow user > to add easily labels to METAFONT sources (text or mathematics) > normally you can only draw in METAFONT and all labels you must write > into the TeX source before (or after) inserting the picture. > now you can write TeX labels straight into the METAFONT source and > my macros will generate corresponding TeX source, which you will only > insert into the text. > it could be used for drawing graphs, geometric constructions... > there is an example too > > you could place it into: > /CTAN/graphics/mf2tex > or into > /CTAN/macros/mf2tex I've installed the package (which includes C and Pascal sources of a Metafont log preprocessor as well as what I take to be a DOS executable of that program) as graphics/mf2tex It will propagate through the CTAN system in due course. Thanks for the upload Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 05:58:19 1997 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:50:37 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex Bjoern Lorenz writes: > I uploaded on > > ftp.dante.de > > the updated file > > neufont.tex > > It should replace the older version CTAN/documentation/neufont.tex Thanks a lot I installed the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 06:48:43 1997 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:46:45 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- GlossTeX Volkan Yavuz writes: > Hello, > > I uploaded the file "glosstex.tar.gz" to ftp.dante.de:/incoming. I > would recommend the directory /support/glosstex. The files in the > archive are: > > $Id: MAIL,v 1.1 1997/04/21 15:09:12 yavuzv Exp $ > > * misc files > COPYING the GNU General Public License > LIESMICH basic documentation in german > MANIFEST this file > Makefile file for Make > README basic documentation in english > > * sources > database.c > database.h > error.c > error.h > glosstex.h > labels.c > labels.h > list.c > list.h > main.c > version.c > version.h > > * documentation > glosstex.gdf GlossTeX glossary definition file for the documentation > glosstex.gst GlossTeX style file for MakeIndex > glosstex.sty GlossTeX style file for LaTeX > glosstex.tex GlossTeX source for LaTeX > > Thank you, > > -- > Volkan Yavuz, 94wi032@ba-mannheim.de > "Use the source, Luke!" Thanks a lot for your submission, I installed the files under support/glosstex, as requested. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Apr 22 06:53:23 1997 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:52:03 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx Carsten Heinz writes: > Hello there, > > here the things you want to know about uploads: > > (a) ftp.dante.de/incoming > > (b) listings.zip (including listings.dtx, listings.ins and listings.dvi) > > (c) The listings-package is intend to typeset listings using LaTeX2e. > It is not a cross compiler, the source code is read directly by TeX! > Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles, > e.g. default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special > style for strings (but blank spaces are printed as with verbatim*, > but there is a command to change this, ...). > > See listings.dvi for more information (the first eight of fourty pages > include the user's guide). > > (d) You might place this package in a directory > /tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/listings Thank you for your submission. I installed your package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings The hierarchy macros/latex/packages is reserved for the LaTeX developers. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Apr 24 07:22:49 1997 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 11:17:55 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- TeX4ht > > (a) state which site you have uploaded to > > ftp.tex.ac.uk > > > (b) state what file(s) you have uploaded, > > The directory > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/TeX4ht > > > (c) include a brief overview of > > what the file(s) is/are intended to do, > > Provide a configurable (La)TeX-based authoring system for > hypertext. > > > (d) [optionally, but > > urgently requested] where you recommend placing your submission within > > the CTAN directory hierarchy. > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ I have installed support/TeX4ht as suggested. Thanks for the upload. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Apr 29 03:51:32 1997 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:47:26 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to aguplus (fwd) > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:26:39 +0200 > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: Update to aguplus > > I have placed the following files into incoming on the Dante CTAN server: > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 4790 Apr 29 06:22 README.pwd > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 34705 Apr 29 06:21 agu.bst > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 40812 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.cls > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 40008 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.sty > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 44281 Apr 29 06:21 aguplus.tex > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 5086 Apr 29 06:22 changes.v15d > > These are updates to my bundle aguplus > Please copy them to macros/latex/contrib/supported/aguplus > replacing the files of the same name and > replacing changes.v15c by changes.v15d Done as requested. To recap, the aguplus files are LaTeX styles for the American Geophyical Union. According to the changes.v15d file, the new version includes: > Version 1.5d 1997 April 28 > Revise agu.bst (version 2.1) so notes added in mid-sentence with lowercase > first word, and journal `number' no longer printed. > May be used with amsmath; previously there was a conflict if \sublab used. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Apr 29 12:46:43 1997 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:42:45 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Submission: VFinst font installer software > I have placed the file vfinst.tgz [...] untar it into the area > fonts/utilities/fontinst. The version improves some user interface ^^^^^^^^ ! > details and includes a DOS version (tested on Windows NT) as well as > original Unix version. I've installed the contents into fonts/utilities/vfinst, which is what I {presume|hope} you meant ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team > Here is the README for this package: > > If you've ever wanted to set up outline fonts for use by \TeX\ or > \LaTeX, VFinst may be of use to you. At the end of the VFinst > process, you'll be able to typeset with your new fonts, confident that > accents, ligatures, and the like will appear in your document with the > usual \TeX\ conventions. Here are the fonts you get at the end of the > process. > > * For every upright font: you get the upright font, the small > caps font, an oblique font, and an underline font. > * For every italic font, you get the italic font, a small caps > italic, an unslanted italic, and an underline font. > * Additional fonts: You will also get titling (display) > fonts, both upright and italic, and a swash italic font, > if the appropriate raw fonts were present. > > VFinst takes care to use expert fonts to build the small caps fonts, > if these raw fonts were originally present. You also get test files > for plain TeX and NFSS (LaTeX), to both test the fonts and to provide > examples of how to declare and use each of the fonts in a TeX > document. > > Some Technical Notes: At the end of the VFinst process, you get all > .vf and .tfm files for all fonts, which have been renamed for you > according to the fontname2.1 conventions. All oblique and italic > fonts use the true italic angle for the font. The dvips map file > psfonts.map will have been updated for you. All fonts will have been > placed in the proper area on your hard disk. You may choose original > TeX (ot1) or Cork (t1) encodings for your fonts, which can be > installed according to the TDS (TeX Directory Structure) or > `traditional' standard. All raw fonts follow the 8r TeXBase1Encoding. > > All this and more is expanded upon in the documentation file > vfinst.tex. PLEASE READ THE FILE vfinst.tex BEFORE ENGAGING IN ANY > FONT INSTALLATIONS. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon May 5 06:25:24 1997 Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 11:18:33 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission ttgfdemo.zip Vasilev Konstantin writes: > Dear Sirs! > > My submission: ttgfdemo.zip > CTAN server: ftp.dante.de > Possible placement: TEX-ARCHIEVE/SUPPORT/TTFTOGF > > The ttgfdemo.zip archieve contains a fully functional demo > version of TTFtoGF utility. > It is 16-bit windows aplication that allows to convert > True Type fonts into TeX pk fonts. > > Regards. > Konstantin Vasil'ev. Thank you for your submission. I added a README file containing the description you gave in your mail message and installed the files in support/ttftogf as you suggested. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 9 03:27:09 1997 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 08:20:12 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission - RefCheck (fwd) > Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:15:47 +0400 > From: "Oleg V. Motygin" > Subject: CTAN Submission - RefCheck > > I uploaded to ftp.dante.de two files collected in directory REFCHECK > These are: > REFCHECK.STY > REFDEMO.TEX > RefCheck.sty is intended to check references in document. It looks > for numbered but unlabelled equations, for labels, which are not > used in the text, for unused bibliography references. Besides, it > can display label names in text near corresponding numbers of > equations and/or bibliography references. > The package was written to work under LaTeX 2.09, but it is known > to be working right under LaTeX 2e as well. > > RefDemo.tex is a short description of usage of RefCheck.sty. Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in the directory tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/refcheck Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 9 03:28:47 1997 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 08:25:16 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- gentl-gr (fwd) > Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 11:57:59 EST5EDT > From: Dimitrios Filippou > Subject: CTAN Submission -- gentl-gr > > I just uploaded two files in "ftp.dante.de" > The names of these files are: > > 1) gentl-gr.tex > 2) gentl-gr.ps > > Essentially these files are the translation > of M. Doob's Gentle Introduction to TeX > (file: gentle.tex) into Modern Greek. The > TeX source code (gentl-gr.tex) is a complete > TeX file, but if the user does not have the > Dryllerakis KD* fonts, then he/she cannot > use it. For that reason, I have included a > PostScript(TM) file as well. > > The files should be best archived under the > directory tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr ... > Dimitrios Filippou > > e-mail: dfilipp@danaos.ntua.gr > filippou@minmet.lan.mcgill.ca Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 9 05:09:34 1997 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:00:28 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Upload from GUST: cep.zip, cmyk-hax.zip, toil.zip, mirr.hd, (fwd) > Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:32:51 +0200 > From: Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz > Subject: Upload from GUST: cep.zip, cmyk-hax.zip, toil.zip, mirr.hd, > qfonts.zip > > After GUST meeting BachoTeX'97 we have a pleasure to announce some > interesting packages--contribution from GUST members. > > I've just uploaded do DANTE:/incoming/ > All ZIP files contain full directory structure, just unzip from > /tex-archive/ > > -- cep.zip (support/pstools/cep/*) it contains: > cep -- compression utilities for PS files; written > in AWK+PostScript, well documented, you can even find a > glossary (B. Jackowski, P. Strzelczyk) > May I propose to add support/pstools directory? I should be a good place > for supporting programs to manipulate PS and EPS files, not just fonts. > Please also move support/ps-conv/ to support/pstools/ps-conv/ > > -- toil.zip (fonts/utilities/t1install/toil/*) > toil -- Type One Install utiLity, facilitates installation > of Adobe Type 1 fonts for TeX; significantly enhances > the capabilities of the obsolete AFMTOMF program > (B. Jackowski) > Once again I propose to add t1install directory to gather here other > installers. > > -- cmyk-hax.zip (macros/generic/TeX-PS/cmyk-hax/*) > Please remove old contents. > cmyk-hax -- a new version of macros for making color > separation (new: separation of bitmaps) with examples > (P. Pianowski) > > -- qfonts.zip (fonts/psfonts/qfonts/*) > qfonts -- public domain Adobe Type 1 fonts; so far only > Quasi-Palladio (regular, italic, bold and bold italic), > based on URW's Palladio, is available; the design of > Palladio, alike the design of the obsolete Platan, > resembles the design of Hermann Zapf's Palatino. > (PFB, AFM, PFM, TFM and ENC files for TeX-ers, DOC) > (B. Jackowski) > -- mirr.hd just move to macros/generic/TeX-PS/ > a small header for making mirror of DVIPSed files. > The small is beautifull! so please remove bop-hax.tex > and put self-documented mirr.hd > > Thanks and greetings, > **StaW > Thanks for all the fine contributions. I installed them on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 9 06:05:55 1997 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:55:45 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch (fwd) Forwarded message: > Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 07:30:27 +0000 > From: "Eduard Werner (Edward Wornar)" > Subject: Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch > > ich habe grade die neuen Trennmuster f"ur Obersorbisch > auf ftp.dante.de geladen. > > Status: BETA > > Zweck: Trennung f"ur Obersorbisch mit TeX > > File: hyphen.sorbian > > Vorgeschlagener Ort: tex-archive/language/hyphenation Thanks, I installed the upper sorbian hyphenations patterns in tex-archive/language/hyphenation/sorhyph.tex. I renamed the file because all files in this directory have names like hyph.tex Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun May 11 10:55:22 1997 Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 15:52:45 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: macros/latex/contrib/supported/{polyglot,accents} > Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 15:00:26 +0200 > From: "DANTE e.V." > Subject: New files in incoming > > I've just transfered the follwing files to the CTAN incoming directory: > > accents.dtx, accents.ins, polyglot/* > > The files came from a DANTE e.V. member without email access, his name is > Javier Bezos-L\'opez from Spain. > > Here comes his own letter: > > --- > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > In the enclosed MS-DOS disc is the version 1.0 of the \texttt{polyglot} > package for LaTeX2e multilingual support, which you are interered in > including in your CTAN/3 server. As well I include a package for multiple > accents with nice features concerning creation of accents and placement > of scripts; as before I enclose printed copies of the manuals. > > Of course, I will very pleased to put the package at the LaTeX user's > disposal (and the \texttt{accents} one, if you find it interesting). > > Mit freundlichen Gruessen > Javier Bezos-L\'opez > ---- > > Best wishes > > Marion Neubauer > (Vicepresident DANTE e.V.) Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/{polyglot,accents}. They will be copied to the other CTAN servers and mirrors in due time. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon May 12 06:18:46 1997 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:13:09 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- glosstex.exe for os/2 Stefan A. Deutscher writes: > I have uploaded the os/2 binary for glosstex version 2.0 (which also is > somewhere in /incoming according to the author Volkan Yavuz). Here is > the brief writeup . > > This file, glosstex.exe, is the compiled os/2 executable for glosstex > version 2.0, as described in its readme. Since os/2 is by now a target > of the original distribution I just put the executable here. Please put > in CTAN:/support/os2/binaries, together with the README.os2. Since in > /incoming README.os2 may not be unique I have renamed it to > glosstex.os2. Thanks for the upload. I have in fact installed your stuff in support/glosstex/binaries/os2 (which offers the remote possibility of someone creating some other set of binaries...) It will propagate to the other CTAN sites and mirrors in due course. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon May 12 06:18:11 1997 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:15:13 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS (fwd) > Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 18:38:47 -0400 > From: Wonkoo Kim > Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS > > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips572.zip. > > This is dvips 5.72 (dvi to postscript converter) compiled with emx/gcc > 0.9c under OS/2 Warp, after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips > 5.72 sources of /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips572.tar.gz of CTAN site. > The patches were based on Guido Sawade's patches to dvips 5.58, which > can be replaced by this update. > > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs. > > I suggest you to place it in > pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip > > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, establish a link for > pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip Thanks for the submission. I installed the new file as suggested and removed the old dvips versions in /tex-archive/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips and /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers. [ For the sake of consistency, /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers/hp-deskjet has been moved to /tex-archive/systems/os2/dviware/hp-deskjet too and the old directory /tex-archive/systems/os2/drivers will soon be deleted. ] Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon May 12 08:59:15 1997 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:54:36 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- Prelim2e v1.20 (fwd) > Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:39:59 +0200 > From: Martin Schroeder > Subject: CTAN Submission -- Prelim2e v1.20 > > I have uploaded to the incoming dir of > ftp.dante.de > the file > prelim2e.zip > containing Version 1.20 of the prelim2e LaTeX package. > > ------------ snipp ------------ > Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Name ("^" ==> case > ------ ------ ---- ----- ---- ---- ------ ---- conversion) > 19164 Defl:X 5509 71% 12-05-97 11:27 3d22d3fb prelim2e.dtx > 26200 Defl:X 8234 69% 12-05-97 11:28 156b32c1 prelim2e.dvi > 2831 Defl:X 1072 62% 12-05-97 11:12 f6d0bbce prelim2e.ins > ------ ------ --- ------- > 48195 14815 69% 3 files > ------------ snapp ------------ > > >From the documentation: > ------------ snipp ------------ > %% =================================================================== > %% @LaTeX-package-file{ > %% author = {Martin Schr\"oder}, > %% version = "1.20", > %% date = "12 May 1997", > %% filename = "prelim2e.sty", > %% address = {Martin Schr\"oder > %% Cr\"usemannallee 3 > %% D-28213 Bremen}, > %% telephone = "++49-421-2239425", > %% email = "MS@Dream.HB.North.DE (INTERNET)", > %% codetable = "ISO/ASCII", > %% keywords = "LaTeX2e, preliminary versions, versions", > %% dependences = "everyshi, scrtime", > %% supported = "yes", > %% docstring = "LaTeX package which allows the marking of > %% preliminary versions of a document" > %% . > %% } > %% =================================================================== > ------------ snapp ------------ > > Changes from version 1.10: > - new option french > - new option scrtime; controls the loading of the scrtime package > - the time option doesn't load the scrtime package automatically > > The files should replace all files in > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/prelim2e/ Thanks, I replaced the old version with your new contribution on ftp.dante.de. It will soon spread to the other CTAN sites and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed May 21 08:03:26 1997 Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:53:38 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Upload to ftp.dante.de: ntheorem > Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 17:40:55 +0200 > From: Wolfgang May > Subject: Upload to ftp.dante.de > > I have uploaded ntheorem.zip to ftp.dante.de. > > The file contains ntheorem.dtx and ntheorem.ins. > ntheorem. dtx includes the style-file, a standard configuration, > and the documentation. Additional information is available > at > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~may/Ntheorem/ntheorem.html > (including a test-file). > > We recommend placing the unpacked files (+this message) in an extra directory > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem/ . > > With this, newthm.sty (macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/) > becomes obsolete, so please put this information into > the corresponding path (macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm/), > too. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in macros/latex/contrib/supported/ntheorem as suggested and removed the obsolete files in macros/latex/contrib/other/newthm. The changes will soon spread to the other CTAN servers and mirrors. > Wolfgang May & Andreas Schlechte > > -------------------- > > Abstract: > > ntheorem.sty for LaTeX > > by Wolfgang May and Andreas Schlechte > > ntheorem.sty is a package for handling theorem-like environments. > Aditionally to several features for defining the layout of theorem-like > environments which can be regarded to be standard requirements for a > theorem-package, it provides solutions for two related problems: > placement of endmarks and generation of lists of theorem-like > environments. In contrast to former approaches, it solves the problem > of setting endmarks of theorem-like environments (theorems, definitions, > examples, and proofs) automatically at the right positions, even if the > environment ends with a displaymath or (even nested) list environments; > it also copes with the amsmath package. This is done in the same manner > as the handling of labels by using the .aux file. It also introduces the > generation of lists of theorem-like environments in the same manner as > listoffigures. > After running LaTeX several times (depending on the complexity of > references, in general, three runs are sufficient), the endmarks are set > correctly, and theoremlists are generated. Since ntheorem.sty uses the > standard LaTeX \newtheorem command, existing documents can be switched to > ntheorem.sty without having to change the .tex file. Also, it is > compatible with LaTeX files using theorem.sty written by Frank Mittelbach. > > Features: > > * General Layout of Theorems: > different predefined theoremstyles, according to theorem.sty, > defining own theoremstyles by \newtheoremstyle, > * Placement of End Marks: > automatically setting end marks for theorem-like environments > in text, math environments, lists etc., > * Generation of Theorem Lists: > Generation of list-of-theorem similar to list-of-figures > different predefined liststyles, according to theorem.sty, > defining own liststyles by \newliststyle. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 22 06:20:12 1997 Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 10:56:25 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.72 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS Wonkoo Kim writes: > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips572.zip. > > This is dvips 5.72 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT). > > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix02 under OS/2 Warp, > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.72 sources of > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips572.tar.gz of CTAN site. The patches were > based on Guido Sawade's patches to dvips 5.58 and other additional > fixes are applied. > > Fixed bugs: (since the previous dvips572.zip, May 11, 1997) > - SIGTRAP on RSX -RO (on Win95/NT). > - Long file name support on Win95/NT. > - Partial ps fonts download. > - other minor things. > > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs. > > The executables should also work on DOS/Win3.1, Win95, or NT with > RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules. > > Please replace the old version of > pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip > > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please keep the link for > pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip > > Thanks. > > //-------------------------------------------------------------------- > // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu) Thanks a lot, I installed the update. Rainer From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu May 22 10:55:10 1997 Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:23:13 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- fixfloats.sty bil kleb writes: > hello, > > attempting to adhere to the instructions in README.uploads: > > site uploaded to: ftp.dante.de > file uploaded as: incoming/fixfloats.sty > brief overview: modifies latex's float handling mechanism so > that double-column floats stay in sequence > with single-column floats of the same type. > suggested location: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/fixfloats.sty > [version: 1.0 (22 may 97)] > > thanks > -- > bil Thanks a lot, I installed the file in the indicated location. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 23 04:18:41 1997 Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:53:30 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission -- cmbright.zip (fwd) > Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 18:10:03 +0200 > From: Walter Schmidt > Subject: CTAN submission -- cmbright.zip > > I have just uploaded the archive file > > cmbright.zip > > to the directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de. > > Please, put its contents into the CTAN directory > > fonts/cmbright, > > preserving the internal directory structure. *All* the > files existing there will be replaced and new ones will be > added. Text files in my archive have unix-style line > endings, i.e. lf only. > > Description (to be used for the announcement): > > This archive updates the > > COMPUTER MODERN BRIGHT FONT FAMILY > ftp:///fonts/cmbright > > What's new? > > EC Bright fonts (T1 encoding) > text companion fonts (TS1 encoding) > additional semibold font shape > LaTeX interface supporting the above features > enhanced documentation > bug fixes etc. > > Here is an excerpt from the `readme' file: > > `Computer Modern Bright' is a family of sans serif fonts for > TeX and LaTeX, based on Donald Knuth's CM fonts. It > comprises OT1, T1 and TS1 encoded text fonts of various > shapes as well as all the fonts necessary for mathematical > typesetting, incl. AMS symbols. > > CM Bright has been designed as a well legible standalone > font. It is `lighter' and less obtrusive than CMSS, which, > in contrast, is more appropriate for markup purposes within > a CM Roman environment. > > Together with CM Bright there comes a family of typewriter > fonts, `CM Typwewriter Light', which look better in > combination with CM Bright than the CMTT fonts would do. > > Additionally this collection provides all the necessary > files for using the fonts with LaTeX. Thanks for your submission. I replaced the old version on ftp.dante.de; the new files will soon be on ftp.tex.ac.uk and hopefully tomorrow on the CTAN mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 23 04:25:45 1997 Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:54:54 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- cancel.sty (fwd) > Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:10:30 PST > From: Donald Arseneau > Subject: CTAN Submission -- cancel.sty > > I have uploaded "cancel.sty" to ftp.dante.de. > > cancel.sty draw diagonal lines and arrows with limits through math formulas > 1.0 21-Apr-1997. LaTeX2e > (macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/cancel.sty) > > This one is definately "other" as in "other than supported". > > "Never in the course of LaTeX endeavor have such large macros done so little" > > Donald Arseneau asnd@reg.triumf.ca Thanks, I installed the file on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue May 27 06:55:46 1997 Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:50:57 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.97 (fwd) > Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:06:21 +0200 > From: Koaunghi Un > Subject: CTAN Submission -- HLaTeX-0.97 > > I've just uploaded HLaTeX-0.97 in the directory of /incoming/HLaTeX on > ftp.dante.de. The following files are now in this directory: > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 996845 May 27 07:40 HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 190622 May 26 10:24 jamo.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 199508 May 26 10:24 pjamo.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 898984 May 26 10:24 wsgr.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 3103071 May 26 10:25 wsgs.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 48964 May 26 10:25 wsgt.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 5040040 May 26 10:25 wsmg.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 1697367 May 26 10:25 wsmj.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 11590 May 26 10:25 wsol.tar.gz > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 2391611 May 26 10:25 wsyt.tar.gz > > HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz is the main part of HLaTeX, which enables > processing Korean document written in KSC 5601 (Korean Standard Coding > system) with LaTeX2e. > Other files are updated versions of Korean fonts, which are needed for > Korean documents written by HLaTeX. > > I'd like HLaTeX-0.97 to be unpacked in the directory of > /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX, after deleting the previous > version. The other font files can be moved to the directory of > /tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX by overwriting the existing files > with same names. > > While the main macro files in /tex-archive/language/korean/HLaTeX are > completely updated by HLaTeX-0.97.tar.gz, the font files are > partially updated. So the other fonts files will be remain untouched. Thanks for your submission. I installed the new version of your files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue May 27 12:30:54 1997 Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:25:05 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ctan submission - cmbr10c.zip (fwd) > Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:47:12 +0200 > Reply-To: Walter Schmidt > From: Walter Schmidt > > I have just uploaded the archive file > > cmbr10c.zip > > to the directory /incoming at ftp.dante.de. > > Please, put its contents into the CTAN directory > > fonts/cmbright, > > preserving the internal directory structure. This will > replace some files and add a new one. Text files in my > archive have unix-style line endings, i.e. lf only. > > Description: > ------------ > This submission will update the > > COMPUTER MODERN BRIGHT FONT FAMILY > ftp:///fonts/cmbright/ > > to > version 1.0c. > > This is a BUG FIX, affecting only the EC (i.e. T1 and TS1) > fonts. The traditional fonts and the LaTeX interface > remain unchanged. Thanks for the update. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri May 30 09:48:12 1997 Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:44:26 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- kluwer.cls (fwd) > Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:43:56 +0200 > From: Taco Hoekwater > Subject: CTAN Submission -- kluwer.cls > > I just uploaded to dante.de the file /incoming/kluwer.zip. > > The included files provide a LaTeX2e class file and > accompagnying user manual for submissions of journal > articles to Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht, the > Netherlands. > > Suggested location: > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/kluwer Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Jun 2 07:00:14 1997 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:52:27 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: submission to ftp.tex.ac.uk -- mathinst Alan Hoenig writes: > I have placed the file mathinst.tar.gz in ftp.tex.ac.uk's /incoming > directory. Please unpack this in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area, > replacing all files and subdirectories currently there with this > new material. This update contains some bug fixes and interface > improvements. Here's the readme: > > > If you've ever wanted to typeset proper mathematics using Caslon or > Garamond or Baskerville or whatever types, MathInst may be of use to > you. It allows you to create proper math fonts for use by TeX and > LaTeX. You need to tell it the family of Roman types you want to use > and the raw math fonts---MathTime, Euler, or Lucida New Math---you can > supply, and this script does the rest. All of MathInst's fonts are > properly scaled for compatibility with the Roman fonts. > > If you supply the name of a typewriter and sans serif font as well, > MathInst will not only create fonts that respond to the NFSS commands > \mathsf and \mathtt, it will also scale these fonts properly to match > the Roman math fonts. > > If you supply the name of a calligraphic, fraktur, blackboard bold, > and Greek bold font, MathInst will create matching fonts and commands > for their use. In particular, if a Greek bold is present, MathInst > will create bold math fonts. > > MathInst also creates two style files---one for use by NFSS (LaTeX) > and one for plain TeX. There are also two matching test files, so you > can not only test the fonts, but see how to access these fonts in a > TeX document. > > At the end, MathInst places all your new fonts in their proper places, > whether you use a traditional or a TDS TeX system. > > For many additional details, please read the (LaTeX) file > `mathinst.tex' which accompanies this material, all of which can be > found in the fonts/utilities/mathinst area of CTAN. Please forward > comments and bug reports to me (Alan Hoenig) at ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu. I have installed the files as requested. Alan's uploads seem to be jinxed: his mail goes astray on its way to me, and in this case, I was away before I could act when the mail finally arrived... My apologies: let's hope I can do better in the future. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 2 11:53:01 1997 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 16:48:00 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- SideCap (fwd) > From: Rolf Niepraschk > Subject: CTAN Submission -- SideCap > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:04:42 -0200 Ha! I installed the files two and a half hours (16:42 +0200) before Rolf put them into CTAN's incoming. Never worked *so* fast ;) > I have uplooad the new package SideCap to /incoming on ftp.dante.de . > The filename is sidecap.zip . This archive contains the following > files: > > - sidecap.dtx > - sidecap.ins > - README > > The SideCap LaTeX package defines the new environments SCfigure and > SCtable, analogous to figure and table, which make it easy to typeset > captions sideways. The package knows the options outercaption, > innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption. > > Please put the files in a new directory > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/sidecap/ Thanks for the contribution, I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 2 17:35:22 1997 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 22:32:34 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd132.zip (fwd) > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:17:44 +0000 > From: hr2@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE > Subject: CTAN Submission -- TeXEd132.zip > > I have uploaded TeXEd132.zip. Please put this file into the > /pub/tex/systems/os2/texed directory and delete texed131.zip. Done as requested on ftp.dante.de. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 4 04:13:26 1997 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:05:36 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission - cmbr10d.zip (fwd) > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:25:07 +0200 > From: Walter Schmidt > Subject: CTAN submission - cmbr10d.zip > > I have just uploaded the archive file > > cmbr10d.zip > > to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please, put its contents into > > fonts/cmbright, > > preserving the internal directory structure. This will > replace various existant files. Text files in my archive > have unix-style line endings, i.e. lf only. > > This submission updates the CM BRIGHT FONTS, ctan directory > fonts/cmbright, to version 1.0d, fixing the following bugs: > > 1) The fonts being installed on Unix with a LaTeX release > prior to 1996/12/01, LaTeX would not find the fd files. > > 2) wrong size of various mathematical symbols in the T1/TS1 > fonts. > > The traditional (OT1 and math) fonts and the LaTeX package remain > *unchanged*. Thanks, I installed the update as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 4 04:14:46 1997 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:06:52 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission - cc095a.zip (fwd) > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:24:29 +0200 > From: Walter Schmidt > Subject: CTAN submission - cc095a.zip > > I have just uploaded the archive file > > cc095a.zip > > to ftp.dante.de/incoming. Please, put its contents into > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts, > > This will replace two existant files. Text files in my > archive have unix-style line endings, i.e. lf only. > > This submission updates the ccfonts package (LaTeX support > for the Concrete Fonts), fixing the following bug: > > * The package being installed on Unix with a LaTeX release > prior to 1996/12/01, LaTeX would not find the fd files. > > This patch affects the installation script only; the LaTeX > files remain unchanged. Thanks, I installed the update as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 6 09:43:08 1997 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 14:25:33 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx update (fwd) > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 13:44:42 +0200 > From: Carsten Heinz > Subject: CTAN Submission -- listings.dtx update > > I've put an update of my listings package at > > (a) ftp.dante.de/incoming > > (b) listings.zip (including listings.dtx, listings.ins and listings.dvi) > > (c) The listings-package is intend to typeset listings using LaTeX2e. > It is not a cross compiler, the source code is read directly by TeX! > Keywords, comments and strings can be typeset using different styles, > e.g. default is bold for keywords, italic for comments and no special > style for strings (but blank spaces are printed as with verbatim*, > but there is a command to change this, ...). > > See listings.dvi for more information (the first eight of fourty pages > include the user's guide). > > (d) Placement of the package > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings Thanks for the update, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 6 16:02:49 1997 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 20:58:42 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- web2c for win32 update (fwd) > From: Fabrice POPINEAU > Date: 06 Jun 1997 18:27:52 +0200 > > I have uploaded the following files > in ftp.dante.de:/incoming/web2c-win32 > > web2c-7.0.5-win32.tar.gz > web2c-7.0.5-win32-src.tar.gz > texmflib-base.tar.gz > README > README.web2c-win32 > README.l2h-win32 > tar.exe > gzip.exe > > It is an update of my previous build of web2c for Win95/NT. I have > appended the README file. It describes what these files contain. > I have not uploaded all these files, because they are quite big. And L2H > is still in beta. > > Thanks to put this stuff into: CTAN:systems/win32/web2c and remove the > old stuff. Thanks for the update, I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as suggested. The files will soon be on the other CTAN sites and mirrors. But PLEASE, PLEASE don't send announcements to the personal accounts of the CTAN maintainers, *always* send them to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de. Otherwise the stuff might lie around in CTANs /incoming for weeks if e.g. I should be ill or on vacation ... Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TeX for Win32 related programs > > Contents of this directory with intended destination: > > Web2c / TeX files: (c:/TeX) > ================== > web2c-7.0.x-win32.tar.gz : 7.0 release of web2c precompiled for Win95/NT > > web2c-7.0.x-win32-src.tar.gz : sources for the previous files, > do not get it unless you want to > debug/build this stuff. > > pdftex-win32.tar.gz : PDFTeX statically linked and pool file. > Should be standalone. Unfortunately, due to the > numerous support files needed, I doubt you can > use this without web2c. So better > get web2c-7.0.x-win32.tar.gz > > Support files for TeX: (c:/TeX/share) > ====================== > > texmflib-base.tar.gz : Karl Berry's minimal texmf tree > + some latex packages > + pdftex support files > > texmflib-fr.tar.gz : Bernard Gaulle's french package + EC fonts > > texmflib-ps.tar.gz : a bunch of ps fonts files > > texmflib-misc.tar.gz : a bunch of latex packages > > texmflib-sauter.tar.gz : Sauter system fonts > > Other support files: (c:/) > ==================== > psutils-win32.tar.gz : Angus Duggan ps utils programs (may need perl) > > LaTeX2HTML: (c:/TeX) > =========== > l2h-win32.tar.gz : latex2html 97.1 beta adapted for web2c/win32 > > Support files for L2H: (c:/) > ====================== > > These files are to be unpacked in c:/ > > perl-win32.tar.gz : perl5.004 + all CPAN win32 modules + GDBM > > gs-win32.tar.gz : ghostscript 4.03 with p?m devices for win32 > > netpbm-win32.tar.gz : netpbm for win32 > > Installation: > ============= > > Depending on what packages you get, and assuming you have unpacked > web2c in c:/TeX, you need to modify your PATH: > > set PATH=c:\TeX\bin\win32;%PATH% > set PATH=c:\netpbm\bin;%PATH% > set PATH=c:\gs\bin;%PATH% > set PATH=c:\perl\bin;%PATH% > set PATH=c:\psutils;%PATH% > > If you have unpacked any xxx of the texmflib packages, xxx not being > the base one, also set: > > set TEXMF=c:/TeX/share/{xxx,yyy,...,texmf} > > Also, do not forget to remove any TeX related environment variable ! > > Now, you can check that your installation is running with: > > kpsewhich --expand-path $SELFAUTOPARENT => c:/ > kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFCNF => c:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c > kpsewhich --expand-var $TEXMF => c:/TeX/share/texmf// > kpsewhich --expand-var $TEXINPUTS => c:/TeX/share/texmf/tex// > kpsewhich texmf.cnf => c:/TeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > kpsewhich latex.fmt => c:/TeX/share/texmf_fr/web2c/latex.fmt -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Jun 7 16:46:01 1997 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 21:35:52 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: KOMAScript-update (fwd) > Subject: KOMAScript-update > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 20:48:49 +0200 (CES) > Reply-To: Markus_Kohm@hd.maus.de > From: unlf@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Markus Kohm) > > inzwischen kennt Ihr das Spielchen ja. Ich habe in incoming/KOMAScript eine > neue Version von KOMA-Script abgelegt. Die Dateien ersetzen das alte > komascript-Verzeichnis im support-Zweig. Thanks for the update. On ftp.dante.de, I installed the new version of the KOMA-Script classes in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/support/koma-script replacing the old version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 9 05:21:43 1997 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 10:14:08 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Update to custom-bib bundle (fwd) > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:23:09 +0200 > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: Update to custom-bib bundle > > I have just put the following update files to my custom-bib bundle into > /incoming/custom-bib on the Dante CTAN server. > > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 16452 Jun 9 07:18 README.v383 > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 14303 Jun 9 07:18 geojour.mbs > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 41400 Jun 9 07:18 makebst.dtx > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 2032 Jun 9 07:18 makebst.ins > -rw-r----- 1 Mr.Ftp server 194544 Jun 9 07:16 merlin.mbs > > Can you please copy them to > macros/latex/contrib/supported/custom-bib > replacing README.v382 by README.v383 Thanks for the update. I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 10 02:14:24 1997 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:10:00 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: gentl-gr (fwd) > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:38:25 EST5EDT > From: Dimitrios Filippou > Subject: gentl-gr > > I have just uploaded a newer version of M. Doob's > "Gentle Intro. to TeX" translation into Modern Greek > at ftp.dante.de > > directory: incoming/gentl-gr > > files: gentl-gr.tex > gentl-gr.dvi > gentl-gr.ps > > These files contain my translation of M. Doob's > manual into Modern Greek, after the correction > of several typos (more than 200 :-(). These files > should move eventually into the directory: > > tex-archive/help/greek/gentl-gr > > The old files GENTL-GR.TEX and GENTL-GR.PS > in that directory must be replaced by the new > files which I have just submitted. With the files > which I have just submitted, I've also included a > DVI file of the translation at the request of several > readers! Thanks fur the update. I dutifully replaced the old files as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 11 09:31:59 1997 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 14:23:07 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex update (fwd) > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:11:02 +0200 > From: Volkan Yavuz > Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex update > > I just uploaded `glosstex.tgz' to `ftp.dante.de:/incoming' which contains > GlossTeX 0.3 and a binary for Linux. Please remove all files in > `tex-archive/support/glosstex' (except for the subdirectory `binaries') > and replace them with the new ones. New binaries for OS/2 may come later. > > * Introduction > > GlossTeX is a tool for the automatic preparation of glossaries, lists > of acronyms and sorted lists in general for use with LaTeX and > MakeIndex. In order to build GlossTeX, you need an ANSI C > compiler. > > * 0.2 to 0.3 > > - GlossTeX now supports $n$ independent lists. Default is a glossary > and a list of acronyms. \glosstex{*} and \acronym{*} insert all > terms from the given .gdf-files into the according list, just like > BibTeX's \nocite{*}. Cross references are really usable now, use > \glxref and \glxref* instead of \glosstexxref. GlossTeX is much more > configurable. > > - .gdf-file syntax slightly changed: `%' at BEGINNING OF LINE is > recognized as comment character. A term consists of label, item, > long-form and text which can be accessed within the document in > several ways, just like acronym.sty. > > - now the .aux-file is used instead of the .glo-file. Also, no > \makeglossary is necessary any more. Also works with \include'd > .aux-files caused by \include{foo.tex} > > - package is documented using the `docstrip' utility, LaTeX-source > cleaned up and documentation updated > > - Makefile is now more standard and should also work with non-GNU make Thanks for the update. I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as requested. They will soon spread to the other CTAN sites and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 12 08:16:51 1997 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:13:21 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- calendar.tgz Frank Bennett writes: > I've put a file, "calendar.tgz" on ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. > > This archive contains a copy of everything that should go in and > below the tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar > directory. And I have duly installed it as suggested. > The file "monthly.dtx" is now really and truly frozen. We're > talking permafrost now. Men from outer space will puzzle over > chunks of this code when Old Sol has become red and bloated, and > they'll wonder how something so insubstantial could have gotten > so cold. Folks running mainframes will be downloading this file > to cut down on their cooling bills. And AT LAST banker mommies > will have suitable bedtime reading for their fledging little > banker kiddies. Wow. What do lawyer mommies read to their fledgling lawyer kiddies, then? (This is a significant problem in high echelons of both USAn and UK life ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team [For those who didn't already know, Frank is an academic lawyer...] From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 03:05:39 1997 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:00:50 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: dropping.dtx update/bug fix (fwd) > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:48:19 +0200 > From: Mats Dahlgren > Subject: CTAN submission: dropping.dtx update/bug fix > > a few seconds ago, i put in > ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/dropping > the file > dropping.dtx > which is an update of > CTAN/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/dropping/dropping.dtx > which it is to replace. this submission is only a bug fix, no other > changes have been made to the file. the remaining files in the > ..../dropping directroy remain unchanged. please install the update at > your earliest convenience. Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested. > "dropping" is a LaTeX 2e pckage which enables the use of dropped > characters at the beginning of a paragraph, giving the proper indention > of the lines following the first. for further details, please see the > package files. > > best regards to the CTAN team, > who does a wonderful job! You're welcome! Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 15:40:51 1997 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:38:41 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop (fwd) > Reply-To: kummer@informatik.uni-hamburg.de > From: Olaf Kummer > Subject: CTAN Submission -- ethiop > > I have uploaded to the incoming directory of > ftp.dante.de > the file > ethiop.tar.gz > The file contains the package > ethiop (Ethiopian language support for the babel package) > currently located at CTAN in > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/ > > Please replace to old version 0.3 by the submitted > version 0.4. This release adds 5 new characters. Thanks, Olaf, for your fine contribution. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested; it will soon spread to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 13 15:42:27 1997 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 20:41:42 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex 0.3 binaries (fwd) > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:36:53 +0200 > From: Volkan Yavuz > Subject: CTAN Submission -- glosstex 0.3 binaries > > As promised, I just uploaded `glosstex-bin.tgz' to > `ftp.dante.de:/incoming' containing binaries built with gcc/emx, so they > run on OS/2, M$-DOS and DOS-Boxes, using emxrt and/or rsx. > > -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users 2635 Jun 12 14:12 1997 README.emx > -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users 65540 Jun 11 20:36 1997 glossteu.exe > -rw-r--r-- yavuzv/users 43800 Jun 11 20:36 1997 glosstex.exe > > The 2nd binary is compressed using LXLite 1.14. > > Please put the 2 Binaries and README.emx in > /support/glosstex/binaries/os2, or directly in /support/glosstex (since > they're only 3 files and os/2 may be misleading since they also run under > DOS), deleting binaries, just as you like. Thanks for the addition to your glosstex package. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in support/glosstex/binaries/os2 replacing the old binaries, because I did it some hours before I got your mail ;) Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 17 04:30:02 1997 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:25:46 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize (fwd) > Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:05:36 +0200 > From: Christian Cornelssen > Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize > > Dear DANTE members, supporters and users, > > I have uploaded the files > > moresize.{dtx,ins,upl} > The `moresize.{dtx,ins}' files constitute a LaTeX2e package `moresize' > for using font sizes up to 35.88pt, for example with the new EC fonts. > `moresize.upl' is this message. > > Two new author commands \HUGE and \ssmall for selecting font sizes > are provided, together with some options working around current LaTeX2e > shortcomings in using big font sizes. > The package also provides options for improving the typesetting of paragraphs > (or headlines) with embedded math expressions at font sizes above 17.28pt. > > I suggest that the files `moresize.dtx', `moresize.ins', and `moresize.upl' > be made available in a new subdirectory `moresize' in the path > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other. > > Installation is done as usual: > > Run TeX on `moresize.ins' for extracting the ready-to-use package file > (moresize.sty) and a test file (msizetst.tex) from `moresize.dtx'. > > Documentation can be obtained by running LaTeX on `moresize.dtx'. > > For general use, move `moresize.sty' into the LaTeX input files area > and 'moresize.dtx' and `moresize.ins' to the LaTeX documentation input files > area (which might be the same as the LaTeX input files area). Thanks for the contribution. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jun 18 06:52:36 1997 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:47:56 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- footbib Eric Domenjoud writes: > I downloaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file footbib.tar.gz which contains > the two files > > footbib.dtx the documented source of the `footbib' package > footbib.ins the installation driver > > The footbib package allows to put bibliography as footnotes in a LaTeX > document. > > I suggest to put footbib in > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/ I've installed the files as you suggest (macros/latex/contrib/ supported/footbib) Thanks for the upload, which will, I hope, prove useful for those who regularly ask for this feature on comp.text.tex ... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 18 07:53:44 1997 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:48:18 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:24:39 +0200 > From: Tilmann Boess > Subject: CTAN Submission -- > > I've updated my LaTeX2e package `mathcomp' and uploaded the new version > on CTAN. Now a font family name can be specified as a package option so > that other font families than cmr can be used (e.g. concrete fonts with > the ccfonts package). > > (a) site: ftp.dante.de:/incoming > > (b) file: mathcomp.dtx > > (c) intention: The package provides access to some interesting > chars of the Text Companion fonts (TS1 encoding) in math mode. > > (d) recommendated placing: The file should replace the old version > in `macros/latex/contrib/supported/mathcomp'. Thanks, I installed the update on ftp.dante.de. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Fri Jun 20 08:25:10 1997 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:15:50 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission --- htmllist.tgz Frank Bennett writes: > I've put another file in incoming. This time it's called: > > htmllist.tgz > > It contains the following directory and files: > > html_list/ > html_list/README > html_list/test.tex > html_list/test.cld > html_list/test.htm > html_list/htmllist.sty > > This new directory should be placed under: > > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/styles > > This extension generates a simple chronological list of events > in HTML format. It could be used as a cron job on a Unix > system to consolidate a distributed set of LaTeX Calendar > event lists. I've installed the files as macros/latex/contrib/supported/calendar/styles/htmllist omitting the underscore in the directory name to keep within 8 characters (for the benefit of systems that find more than that taxes their ingenuity ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jun 20 10:58:14 1997 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:53:11 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- lettrine (fwd) > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:46:31 +0200 > From: Daniel FLIPO > Subject: CTAN Submission -- lettrine > > I have put on ftp.dante.de/incoming a file lettrine.tar.gz containing > lettrine/00README > lettrine/lettrine.dtx > lettrine/lettrine.ins > lettrine/lettrine.cfg > lettrine/demo.tex > > The purpose of this bundle is to typeset dropped capitals in various > ways, typically those described in the French typographic books. > > I would suggest to install the bundle in > tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. -rz for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 24 07:54:23 1997 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:41:20 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: cbgreek fonts > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:57:20 GMT+1 > From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" > Subject: cbgreek fonts > > last friday I uploaded in a directory /incoming/cbgreek the METAFONT source > files for a complete set of Greek fonts. > > Meanwhile dr. Apostolos Syropoulos, the President of the Ellenic TUG, whith > whom I am in strict contact and of whom I spoke to you in my previous > message, sent me an e-mail, of which I forward to you the relevant parts > since they have to do with my fonts and the babel package about the Greek > language. > > Please follow dr. Syropoulos' indications concerning the font directories > and the related subdirectories that will be filled up by dr. Syropoulos > himself, or by Johannes Braams. > > ----- Begin message from IN%"apostolo@platon.ee.duth.gr" 20-Jun-97 > > On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, prof. Claudio Beccari wrote: > > > I'd suggest that this new directory is under ..../fonts/greek and is named > > /cbgreek or /cbfonts. > > Let me tell you this: You have worked to create the fonts, you deserve > the right to call them whatever you like. But I prefer cbfonts, because it > will be under fonts/languages/greek. > > > > > > You can upload the basic METAFONT files, and I can upoload all > > > the TFM and the derived MF files. > > > > You mean you are going to upload all the .tfm files and all the .pk files? > > In that case may be it should be better to have other sub-sub-directories. > > Yes, all the .tfm and all the gXXX????.mf files. As far it regards > subdirectories we can have tree: tfm, basic-mf, drivers or something like > that. Thanks for the submission. I installed the Metafont files on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/fonts/greek/cb/mf, since from the pathname it is clear that fonts/greek/cb contains fonts for greek characters. So there is no need to put 'greek' or 'fonts' in the directory name. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jun 24 08:04:47 1997 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:00:52 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- r_und_s.tar.gz (fwd) > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:50:46 +0200 > From: Thiemo Nordenholz > Subject: CTAN Submission -- r_und_s.tar.gz > > As announced in my last mail, I've uploaded a LaTeX-Stylefile and a > TeX-Macro to the CTAN at ftp.dante.de called r_und_s. > > This package decodes the german 'R- und S-S"atze', which are numerically > coded security advices for chemical substances into plain text. This is e.g. > used to compose security sheets or lab protocols and especially useful for > students of chemistry. > > As I do not know that much about CTAN's directory structure, I'd like to ask > you for putting the file in the right place if you decide to distribute it. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/r_und_s. They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jun 24 10:02:55 1997 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:00:48 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Troubles with ftp.tex.ac.uk The machine that provides service at ftp.tex.ac.uk hasn't worked since some time in the small hours of Sunday morning, local (Cambridge) time. This follows a power failure which presumably arose from the wonderful summer weather we're currently experiencing. Web users are advised that access to the archive via the URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/ produces a silly message that claims you don't have permission to acccess the archive: this is a reflection of the failure of the archive to service NFS requests. Please use a neighbourhood CTAN mirror rather than ftp.tex.ac.uk -- finger ctan@ftp.dante.de for details of mirrors. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Jun 24 12:31:48 1997 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:24:50 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX release June97 available from CTAN The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. LaTeX release June97 available The LaTeX Programming Team is pleased to announce (somewhat late) the availability of the June97 release. As usual, it is available from CTAN in the directories macros/latex/base macros/latex/unpacked macros/latex/doc For information about this release, see the file ltnews07.tex in the distribution. Most notably, this release is the first ot support the ec fonts out of the box. In addition, the tools, graphics and mfnfss bundles have been updated and are available from CTAN in macros/latex/packages/tools macros/latex/packages/graphics macros/latex/packages/mfnfss For the LaTeX Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Jun 25 06:41:37 1997 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:35:28 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: natbib update (fwd) > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:11:37 +0200 > From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" > Subject: natbib update > > I have uploaded an update to my natbib package to the dante CTAN server, > > Files are in /incoming/natbib: > natbib.dtx > README.v66 > > Please copy them to contrib/supported/natbib removing the README.v65 file. Thanks for the submission. I installed the update on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:17:23 1997 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:11:39 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- FriBrief (fwd) > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:33:47 +0200 > From: Alexander Fries > Subject: CTAN Submission -- FriBrief > > I've upload an update for my FriBrief-package on Dante.de in the > directory /incoming/FriBrief. > > Please replace the three files in > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fribrief > with the new version. Thank you. Thanks for the update. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested. BTW - FriBrief is a derivate on the letter and the dinbrief classes. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:24:57 1997 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:22:44 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission (fwd) > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 00:47:32 +0200 > From: Werner Lemberg > Subject: CTAN submission > > I've just uploaded the file ruhyph.tex(.gz) to ftp.dante.de; this file is > a new version of Russian hyphenation patterns set up for T2 encoding (yes, > T2 encoding :-) Additionally it contains some patterns with the letter > `yo'. Thanks for the submission. I installed the file on ftp.dante.de as /tex-archive/language/hyphenation/ruhyph.tex > I don't know a good location for this; maybe it would be best to rename > the old suhyph to suhyph.old (the name suhyph is obsolete anyway), and > providing ruhyph as the default. It is easy to change the font encoding if > necessary. As I don't know how much other stuff depends on the old suhyph.tex file, I'm rather unwilling to rename it. I'll leave it as it is for the time being unless the other CTAN maintainers urge me to rename or delete it. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jun 26 05:32:38 1997 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:29:48 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 18:15:11 +0200 > From: Wolfgang.Sternefeld@UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE > Subject: CTAN Submission -- > > (a) dante.de > (b) linguex.tar.gz which unpacks to the directory linguex containing: > linguex.sty, linguex-doc.tex, and linguho.sty > (c) A tool to facilitate the formatting of linguist examples. > Automatically takes > care of example numbering, indentations, > indexed brackets, and the ``*'' in grammaticality judgments. linguho.sty > allows for automatic extraction of a handout from a file generated with > linguex.sty. > (d) macros/latex/contrib/supported Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Jun 26 10:12:52 1997 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 14:10:16 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Troubles with ftp.tex.ac.uk In article , I wrote: >The machine that provides service at ftp.tex.ac.uk hasn't worked since >some time in the small hours of Sunday morning, local (Cambridge) >time. This follows a power failure which presumably arose from the >wonderful summer weather we're currently experiencing. >From around 1000 BST today (Thursday 26 June) we appear to have a working processor again. The machine was working for odd half-hours yesterday, using a (not very good) stop-gap processor board ... they don't hold spares of our one in this country (it's only 275MHz, so too old to be "every-day" spares ;-) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:29:19 1997 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:24:28 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: fonts/CJK > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:41:40 +0200 > From: Werner Lemberg > Subject: CTAN submission > > I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de in the directory CJK-fonts a complete > replacement of the directory /fonts/CJK. Please install it. > > The packages aren't really new; I've only corrected the known bugs and > transformed the archives into a TDS compliant structure. Thanks for the submission. I installed the update on ftp.dante.de in /tex-archive/fonts/CJK as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:31:13 1997 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:27:48 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: web/c_cpp/c2cweb > Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:51:59 +0200 > From: Werner Lemberg > Subject: CTAN submission > > I've just uploaded to ftp.dante.de in the directory c2cweb two replacement > files for /web/c_cpp/c2cweb. Please install them, overwriting the > old ones. Thanke for the submission. I replaced the old versions on ftp.dante.de with your update. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jun 30 03:37:28 1997 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 08:34:28 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 22:27:02 +0200 > From: Alexander Dong > Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar > > I have uploaded the file MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar to /incoming in ftp.dante.de. > > The files inside this TAR file are: > > README.TXT > Readme.AXP > UNZIP.EXE > exe107a.zip > install.exe > > Please untar the file MikTeX-Win32-AXP.tar and copy them to the > directory: > > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex-AXP > > This is a port von MikTeX to "Windows NT AXP (Alpha)" on a DEC machine. > The user who want to use it should read the Readme.AXP first. > > Thanks very much! > > Cheers > Alexander Dong > qiwen@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul 1 03:07:51 1997 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 08:03:21 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.3 (fwd) > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:37:31 -0400 > From: Dwight Aplevich > Subject: CTAN update: circuit_macros 4.3 > > The file Circuit_macros4.3.tar.gz has been placed in the incoming > directory of ftp.dante.de. The contents of this file replace the > CTAN directory graphics/circuit_macros. > > This version contains minor changes, but also explicit instructions for > installation on (some) non-unix PCs. A method is also given for > obtaining the dimensions of formatted text for diagram calculations. > > >From the README: > This is a set of macros for drawing high-quality electric circuit > diagrams containing fundamental elements, amplifiers, transistors, > and basic logic gates to include in TeX, LaTeX, or similar > documents. Some tools for block diagrams are also included. The > advantages and disadvantages of such a system are similar to those of > TeX itself, which is macro-based, non-wysiwyg, and which uses > ordinary character input. > > These macros evaluate to drawing commands in the pic language, which > is very easy to understand and has a good power/complexity ratio. > Because pic contains elements of a simple programming language, it is > well-suited to line drawings requiring parametric or conditional > components, fine tuning, significant geometric calculations or > repetition, or that are naturally block structured or tree structured. > Interpreters for the language are readily available, and some are free. Thanks for the update. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as requested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Jul 2 07:36:11 1997 Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:29:04 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ArmTeX (Version 1.0) Serguei Dachian writes: > We have recently uploaded our ArmTeX package to the ftp site > > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incomming > > The package consist of only one zipped file "ArmTeX10.zip". > > After long serching on the Net we haven't found any METAFONT-s for Armenian > language. Though CTAN's tex-archives do contain a directory > > http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/tex-archive/fonts/armenian/ > > there are no metafont files there. There are just some ".tfm" files and some > pre-generated at some fixed sizes ".pk" files. Even this ".pk" files where not > produced by METAFONT (as we can guess from their contents). > > So we have developed this package "ArmTeX". It's a package which > lets one to write in Armenian with TeX. It can be used with standard Latin > keyboard without any special encoding and/or support for Armenian letters. > It can also be used with any keyboard which uses encoding having Armenian > letters in the second half (characters 128-255) of extended ASCII table. > The package is a freeware by S. Dachian and V. Hakobian. > > We whould like to put this package on the CTAN-ftp site(s), > because Armenian scientific society needs a good tool to type scientific text. > [Most people whom I know use "MS Word" with "MS Equation" or completely > outdated "ChiWriter" !!! That's horrible :-(.] > > We suggest to put the package in the directory "tex-archive/language/armenian" > or (as the package consist essentially of metafont files) in the directory > "tex-archive/fonts/armenian". The "armenian" can be replaced by "ArmTeX" or by > "ArmTeX10" or even by "ArmTeX1.0" if you like it more. I have (finally) installed the package as per your preferred location, fonts/armenian (the old version, which does seem distinctly peculiar, has moved to a semi-secret place). Thanks very much for the submission... Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team PS, ArmTeX would have been rather a _bad_ name, since there is a port of TeX for ARM computers, called ... armtex ;-) From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jul 4 08:34:16 1997 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 13:27:46 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.74 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win (fwd) > Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 06:21:23 -0400 > From: Wonkoo Kim > Subject: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.74 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win > > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips574.zip. > > This is dvips 5.74 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT). > > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix02 under OS/2 Warp, > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.74 sources of > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips574.tar.gz of CTAN site. > > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs. > > The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with > EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules. > > Please replace the old version of > pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips572.zip > > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make the link for > pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips574.zip Thanks for the news version. I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Jul 4 11:28:42 1997 Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 16:25:45 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: natbib 6.6 updated again P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany writes: > In an effort to get a bugless version 6.6 of natbib on line, I have > put natbib.dtx once more into the dante /incoming directory. > > Can you please copy it to /contrib/supported/natbib Thanks. I installed the file as requested. Rainer Schoepf From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul 8 03:36:52 1997 Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:30:57 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML (fwd) > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:19:20 -0400 > From: Boris Veytsman > Subject: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML > > I have uploaded to dante the file foilhtml.tar.gz. I would suggest > installing it under macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml. Thanks for the submission, I duly installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team > The readme file is included > > Good luck > > -Boris > > Home page > > SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT: > FOILHTML PACKAGE > > Version 1.0, July 7, 1997 > > Boris Veytsman > E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu > Home page: http://planck.psu.edu/~boris > > > The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than > logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX > documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the > well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results > when used on FoilTeX documents. > > This package provides integration between FoilTeX and > LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical > formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands > in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of > LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when > converting FoilTeX documents. > > > > Installation > > Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both > these programs installed and working prior to installation of > FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have > enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under > FoilTeX v2.1 and LaTeX2HTML v96-1 (of February 5, 1996). > > The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files: > > - readme.v10---Read Me file > - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code > - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file. > > To install the package: > > - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files: > o foilhtml.perl---Perl script, > o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the > configuration file for user-customization, > o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver. > > - Put foilhtml.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML styles > scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main > LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles). > - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your > taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the > directory read by LaTeX. > - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the > documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file > foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the > documentation). > - (Optional) to produce the documentation \emph{and} the code run > LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx > From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Tue Jul 8 03:40:33 1997 Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 08:32:45 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo (fwd) > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 23:01:35 +0200 > From: Juergen Vollmer > Subject: CTAN Submission -- rcsinfo > > I put a new version of my rcsinfo package to ftp.dante.de > > The rcsinfo package is used to extract information of the RCS (Revision > Control System) and use it in a LaTeX document. > For users of LaTeX2HTML, a perl-package translating LaTeX documents to HTML, > rcsinfo.perl is added, which adds the functionality to that tool. > > The following files are contained in rcsinfo-1.3.tar.gz > rcsinfo-1.3/rcsinfo.doc > rcsinfo-1.3/rcsinfo.ins > rcsinfo-1.3/Makefile > rcsinfo-1.3/README-1.3 > > Please put it into tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/rcsinfo Thanks for the update, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM Fri Jul 11 03:51:54 1997 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:49:24 -0700 From: Yotam Medini To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: tfmpk-0.31 Subject: tfmpk - (TFM+PK) font viewer using Tcl/Tk. Hello TeX community: TeX's .tfm+.pk viewer is available. It is called 'tfmpk' (currently version 0.31). It uses and rhymes with Tcl/Tk. Grab the source from: /anonymous@ftp.blueneptune.com:/pub/users/yotam/ See more at: http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/tfmpk.html Latest changes: 0.30 -> 0.31: * Alow .tfm files to have extra byte(s). * Add #inclusions before . * Remove erroneous extern "C" wrappers. * No istrstream since it leaks memory for libg++ before 2.7.2. * Fix memory leaks in matchFonts. * newdel.c for memory check. Better and released. * Makefile: clean targets, more platforms specific support. * Link against Tcl/Tk 8.0b2. Enjoy it! -- yotam - - - Nelson Beebe, I merged all of your additions to the Makefile. But I could not check the ifeq ($(PLATFORM)....) I'll be happy to get fixes. Allin Cottrell, I hope 'your' tfm files can now be loaded. But the major problem, that is the seg-fault I could not reproduce, so it is still open. Could it be releated to 'string' implementation. What libg++ version are you using? -- yotam From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jul 14 07:32:09 1997 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:24:02 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize (fwd) > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:14:23 +0200 > From: Christian Cornelssen > Subject: CTAN Submission -- moresize > > I have uploaded version 1.8 [1997/07/14] of the LaTeX2e `moresize' package. > > moresize.dtx documented LaTeX2e source file. > moresize.ins TeX installation script > moresize.upl this info (can serve as README file, too) > > The moresize.* files are intended for replacing the corresponding files > in the directory /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other. > > The `moresize' package allows using font sizes up to 35.88pt, > for example with the new EC fonts. > > Two new author commands \HUGE and \ssmall for selecting font sizes > are provided, together with some options working around current LaTeX2e > shortcomings in using big font sizes. > The package also provides options for improving the typesetting of paragraphs > (or headlines) with embedded math expressions at font sizes above 17.28pt. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as requested renaming moresize.upl to 00README as in the previous version. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Jul 17 04:23:31 1997 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:18:51 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission: EnvLab v1.2 (fwd) > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:42:11 -0400 > From: Boris Veytsman > Subject: CTAN submission: EnvLab v1.2 > > I uploaded to dante the new version of my Envelopes & Labels package > (envlab.tgz). Please install it in macros/latex/contrib/supported/envlab > over the previous version (1.1). I append the readme file below. Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as suggested; it will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team > --------------------------readme v1.2 ------------------- > Envelopes and Labels > LaTeX2e package > Version 1.2 > > Boris Veytsman > boris@plmsc.psu.edu > home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris > > July 16, 1997 > > > This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable > system for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. It > includes printing of barcodes and address formatting according to > the US Postal Service rules. > > The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls > document class typesets labels on Avery 5352 sheets. A typical user > may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully}) > a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab: > - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined > label sheets or envelopes. > - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope > sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can > typeset this. > - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to > the United States Postal Service Rules. > - Allows you to include your logo in the return address. > - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing. > - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing. > The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX \rule > commands. > > This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is > not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was > only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your > national standards, please contact me with pointers to the > corresponding documents. > > The distribution of this package includes the following files: > - envlab.dtx---fully documented program > - envlab.ins---DocStrip instruction module > - elold.ins---DocStrip instruction module for older versions of > DocStrip > - elguide.tex---User Guide > - readme.version_number---Read Me file > > To install the package > - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv, > envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. NOTE: If your version of DocStrip is older > than 2.3, use elold.ins instead of envlab.ins. > - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to > your taste. > - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search > path. NOTE: users of kpathsea based TeX (like teTeX) should also issue > texhash to update the search database. > - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and > (optional) envlab.drv. > - Enjoy! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's new in version 1.2 > > - Bug fixes. The package is now compatible with amsmath. > - New media type: big labels. They are typeset like labels, but carry > both shipping and return addresses. > - New commands to control the automatic generation of mailing labels. > - New commands to change the media type for mailing labels in the > middle of the document. > - New PostScript code for selecting the paper trays (thanks to EnvLab > users). > - Enhancements to the letter environment for typesetting the subject > information. > - Documentation update. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's new in version 1.1 > > - Bug fixes, including correcting the nasty typos in default options & > elold.ins. > - New options controlling the printing of return addresses. > - \AtBeginLabels now behaves like \AtBeginDocument and \AtBeginDvi: the > changes are cumulative. > - New hook \AtBeginLabelPage. > - New command and options controlling switching the printer to manual feed > mode while printing envelopes and labels (thanks to William Slough, Eastern > Illinois University). > - New command \FirstLabels controlling offsets for the labels. From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Jul 18 04:39:41 1997 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:35:04 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- flabels (fwd) > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:28:52 +0200 > From: Volker Boerchers > Subject: CTAN Submission -- flabels > > I have written a (LaTeX2e) package `flabels.dtx' providing LaTeX > macros for typesetting pretty labels (optionally colored) for the back > of files or binders. So far they are only applicable for the special > format of the (for a4 paper) widely used ``Leitz-Ordner'' (ring > binder). > > The first of the 2 main macros creates a number of empty labels (for > handwriting) while the second also prints a text field. > > I hope that further versions of the |flabels| package will support > more than one binder format (depending on contributions from other > users). > > Now the information on the uploaded file (following `README.uploads'): > (a) uploaded at ftp-site: ftp.dante.de > (b) file: flabels.tgz (tar'ed and gzip'ed) > (c) for a brief overview of the files submitted see the copy of README > below. > (d) I recommend the following path: > directory: /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/supported/flabels Thanks for your submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. They will soon be available on the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Jul 21 09:32:16 1997 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:23:14 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- (fwd) > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:32:16 -0200 > From: Rolf Niepraschk > Subject: CTAN Submission -- > > I have upload my new LaTeX package overpic to /incoming on ftp.dante.de . > The filename is overpic.zip . This archive contains the following > files: > > README > overpic.sty > opictest.tex > > Please put the files in a new directory > > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/overpic/ > > >From README: > -------------------- > This small LaTeX package defines the overpic environment which is > a combination between the usual picture environment and the includegraphics > command defined in graphicx. The resulting new picture environment has > automatically the same dimension as the included eps graphic. Now it is > easily possible to put any LaTeX output on the graphic at defined position. > A grid for orientation is also available. > > This directory contains the following files: > > README - This file. > overpic.sty - The definition of overpic. Required are graphicx.sty and > epic.sty. > opictest.tex - A demo that shows all the features. This file loads the eps > graphic file golfer.ps which is part of ghostscript's > examples directory. Thanks for the submission. I installed the files on ftp.dante.de as suggested; they will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Jul 22 14:24:18 1997 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:09:36 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: UNIX tools for multiple master fonts A couple of days ago, Eddie Kohler made the following announcement on comp.text.tex (and comp.fonts) Two free UNIX command-line tools for working with multiple master fonts are available in preliminary versions. mmafm creates an AFM by interpolating at a given point in a multiple master's design space. (You can pass the resulting AFM off to afm2tfm, etc...) mminstance creates a "normal" PFB font by interpolating at a given point in a multiple master's design space. (You can pass the resulting PFB off to ps2pk, etc...) Both require a C++ compiler -- g++-2.7.2 is what I have -- but not C++ libraries. Both can handle fonts with intermediate masters (e.g. Adobe Jenson). Source: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/type/mmafm-0.1.tar.gz http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/type/mminstance-0.1.tar.gz I have now installed both of these utilities on CTAN in directory fonts/utilities/mmtools, after consulting with Eddie. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From yotam@BLUENEPTUNE.COM Fri Jul 25 04:26:13 1997 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:26:46 -0700 From: Yotam Medini To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: tfmpk-0.32 - (TFM+PK) font viewer using Tcl/Tk. The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Hello TeX community: TeX's .tfm+.pk viewer is available. It is called 'tfmpk' (currently version 0.32). It uses and rhymes with Tcl/Tk. Grab the source from: /anonymous@ftp.blueneptune.com:/pub/users/yotam/ See more at: http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/tfmpk.html Latest changes: 0.31 -> 0.32: * Fix bug in Kern-window scrollbar. * Provide bitmap icon alternative. * Fix bug in Load Font menu. Down-Arrow when type-to-seek loses position. * Fix bugs considering negative height, depth in Focus Char (ptmr0.tfm ptmr0.300pk) * Enhance 'lspath' to simple basename search. * '-load ' to look in tfmpath & pkpath. * Fix bug that seg-faults on SGI. While at it, simplify and improve color-configuration code. * Fix typos in "Usage" help message. Enjoy it! -- yotam -- .--------------------------------------------------------------------------, < Yotam Medini yotam@blueneptune.com http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/ > `--------------------------------------------------------------------------' From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Fri Aug 1 08:53:26 1997 Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:48:04 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- lilypond (fwd) > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:30:56 +0200 > From: Han-Wen Nienhuys > Subject: CTAN Submission -- lilypond > > I uploaded > > lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz > to > ftp.dante.de > > Description: > > GNU LilyPond is a program which converts music definition > files into visual or auditive output: it can typeset formatted sheet > music to a TeX file and (mechanical) performances to MIDI files. > > suggested location > > support/lilypond/lilypond-0.1.0.tar.gz > > Han-Wen Nienhuys, hanwen@stack.nl | LilyPond - The GNU Project music typesetter > http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen | http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/ Thanks for the submission. I installed the archive on ftp.dante.de as suggested. It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Aug 5 10:10:12 1997 Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 14:03:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Sbumission DVI_economic.ZIP Yves Verhoeven writes: > I have uploaded DVI_Economic.ZIP at ftp.tex.ac.uk > This set of programs allows you to save some paper and some ink by > printing 8 pages on a single A4 paper sheet. > I suggest putting this file in /ctan/tex-archive/dviware Thanks for the upload. I have installed the (expanded) .zip file as you suggest. Note for users: this is a pair DOS programs, only, though there is some ambition to make it more widely available in the future. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Aug 12 04:13:33 1997 Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:08:02 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- FoilHTML v1.1 Boris Veytsman writes: > I've just uploaded to dante the file foilhtml.tgz. It contains the > package FoilHTML, version 1.1. Please install it in > macros/latex/contrib/supported/foilhtml. Thanks a lot, I installed the upgrade. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > --------------------------- readme.v11 ------------------------------ > SECTIONING COMMANDS IN FOILTEX AND CONVERSION TO HTML FORMAT: > FOILHTML PACKAGE > > Version 1.1, August 11, 1997 > > Boris Veytsman > E-mail: boris@plmsc.psu.edu > Home page: http://planck.psu.edu/~boris > > > The standard FoilTeX system is based on a visual rather than > logical formatting. Thus automatic conversion of FoilTeX > documents to HTML format is difficult. In particular, the > well-known LaTeX2HTML converter gives unsatisfactory results > when used on FoilTeX documents. > > This package provides integration between FoilTeX and > LaTeX2HTML. It adds sectioning commands and elements of logical > formatting to FoilTeX and provides support for FoilTeX commands > in LaTeX2HTML. It also supports automatic creation of > LaTeX2HTML images with proper font sizes and shapes when > converting FoilTeX documents. > > > > Installation > > Since FoilHTML is an add-on to FoilTeX and LaTeX2HTML, you need both > these programs installed and working prior to installation of > FoilHTML. This package is intended for LaTeX2e only; I don't have > enough time to port and test it under LaTeX2.09. It is tested under > FoilTeX v2.1 and both LaTeX2HTML v96-1 and LaTeX2HTML v97-1. > > The FoilHTML distribution consists of the following files: > > - readme.v11---Read Me file > - foilhtml.dtx---the fully documented code > - foilhtml.ins---the LaTeX program extracting the code from the .dtx file. > > To install the package: > > - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.ins. This will create the following files: > o foilhtml.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML96-1, > o foils.perl---Perl script for LaTeX2HTML97-1, > o foilhtml.sty and foilhtml.cfg---LaTeX style file and the > configuration file for user-customization, > o foilhtml.drv---documentation driver. > > - Choose the Perl script you need: > o if you have LaTeX2HTML97-1, use foils.perl, > o if you have LaTeX2HTML96-1, use foilhtml.perl. > > - Put foilhtml.perl to the directory where your LaTeX2HTML > scripts reside (usually it is styles subdirectory of the main > LaTeX2HTML directory, e. g. /usr/local/lib/latex2html/styles). > - Tune the configuration file foilhtml.cfg according to your > taste and put it together with the file foilhtml.sty to the > directory read by LaTeX. > - Run LaTeX on foilhtml.drv to produce the documentation (the > documentation driver foilhtml.drv reads the contents of the file > foilhtml.dtx, so do not delete the latter until you produced the > documentation). > - (Optional) to produce the documentation and the code run > LaTeX through the file foilhtml.dtx > > > What's New in Version 1.1: > - Added support for LaTeX2HTML97-1. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Aug 18 06:15:28 1997 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:10:44 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN SUBMISSION -- m-pictex Tobias Burnus writes: > m-pictex solves the 'out of dimen' problem that somethimes occoures > when using PiCTeX (especially together with LaTeX). > > The unpacked m-pictex.zip (in ftp.dante.de/incoming/) should be placed > into CTAN/macros/context/pictex/ and a symbolic link subdirectoy should > be created in CTAN/graphics/pictex/ (named for instance /dimen/). Thanks for your submission. I installed the package in macros/context/pictex with a symbolic link in graphics/pictex/addon/m-pictex For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf > Excerpt from readme.en: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > When I run PiCTeX in LaTeX, TeX runs out of dimension registers. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > There are 256 avialable in TeX. LaTeX and its style files however > allocate quite some of them. This means that PiCTeX, which uses over 100 > itself, can hardly be run along many style files. > > The solution is simple: use the generic CONTeXT module m-pictex. This small > module loads PiCTeX in a more effient way, using instead of > when possible. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Tobias Burnus > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Tobias Burnus email: Tobias Burnus > Troppauer Str. 15 Accepting/Akzeptiere HTML mail > D-12205 Berlin Verwende auch/Supporting PGP > Germany/Deutschland/Allemagne Tel+Fax: +49-(0)30-8118029 > ________________________________________________________________________ From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 20 10:19:59 1997 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 15:08:12 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: China2e package Marion Neubauer wrote: > I've uploaded the CHINA2E package into the subdirectory china on > ftp.dante.de. The software is from a guy from germany with no email > connection. A description can be found in README.TXT. Thanks a lot. I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/china2e (and took the liberty to change Dante's Email address in readme.txt from to .) For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf --------------------readme.txt follows------------------ ================================================ ####### China2e -- a short font report ####### ================================================ (Chinese calendar symbols - by UDO HEYL, July 14th, 1997 Error Reports in case of UNCHANGED versions to Udo Heyl, Stregdaer Allee 7, 99817 Eisenach, Federal Republic of Germany or DANTE, Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V., Postfach 10 18 40, 69008 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, Email: dante@dante.de What is China2e ? _________________ It is a LaTeX2e - package to produce Chinese calendar symbols of the old Chinese lunisolar calendar. In addition you can use a new fontshape {\BLOCK}, symbolic letters \symA ... \symZ , the phases of the Moon \MoonPha{1}\MoonPha{2}\MoonPha{3}\MoonPha{4} and some special symbols (\Greenpoint\Telephone...). How to use the China2e package? _______________________________ First and foremost you've got to copy the following files --- china10.mf, chinasym.add, chinasym.alf, chinasym.ele, chinasym.num, chinasym.sbl and chinasym.sta into your Metafont-directory (\EMTEX\MFINPUT\CHINA) --- china2e.sty into your Style-directory (\EMTEX\TEXINPUT\CHINA) --- china10.tfm into your Tfm-directory (\EMTEX\TFM\CHINA Note, however, that the paths may be different in your LaTeX2e implementation (EmTeX for MS-DOS, web2c for UNIX etc.). LaTeX2e is absolutely required, if you want to use China2e, which doesn't run with the ANCIENT LaTeX209. Now you can call this package like seen in the example: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{china2e} %%% to include china2e.sty \begin{document} ... \end{document} Chinese characters and symbols will appear now in the current size and won't change the current shape. Of course you can input {\Huge Chinese symbol} to manage a greater Chinese calendar symbol. !!!!! Please consult CHINADOC.TEX or CHINADOC.PS for further infos !!!!! From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 05:32:54 1997 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 09:46:55 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex Bjoern Lorenz writes: > I uploaded on > > ftp.dante.de > > the updated file > > neufont.tex > > It should replace the older version CTAN/documentation/neufont.tex Done. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 05:45:43 1997 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:07:09 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ftetx v0.04 Thanks for you Upload, I installed the package as requested. -Rainer Schöpf Oliver John von Zydowitz writes: > August 21th, 1997. CTAN upload information. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I've uploaded the package 'ftetx' version 0.04 to: > > CTAN-site: ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/ftetx004/ > > Files: /incoming/ftetx004/ftetx004.zip > /incoming/ftetx004/file_id.diz > > Description: > > Package name: FTETX > Version: 0.04 > Author: Oliver John von Zydowitz > > Purpose: TeX package for FTE > (FTE == Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek) > - TeX menu system for FTE > - Changed syntax highlighting for FTE's TeX-Mode > - Running TeX, dvi-drivers, ispell... from FTE > - Calling LaTeX help files from FTE > - preconfigured for emTeX > Systems: OS/2, DOS, LINUX (Linux not really tested) > Requirements: - FTE text editor (v0.46 beta 3 or above) > - emxrt (for OS/2, and maybe DOS) > License: Distribution: Artistic License > Usage: unrestricted > > Suggested location for CTAN: > > zip-file: systems/os2/ftetx/ftetx004.zip > and links at: systems/msdos/ftetx/ -> systems/os2/ftetx/ > systems/unix/linux/ftetx/ -> systems/os2/ftetx/ > > If you want to put the files unzipped onto CTAN it might be better to > remove the outer directory (./contrib/) from the resulting tree. > Ftetx.zip is intended to be unzipped into a FTE installation (there- > fore the ./contrib/-directory); but placing files in a directory named > ftetx/contrib/ftetx004 might confuse CTAN vistors. > > For your information (when interested): > FTE is the Folding Text Editor by Marko Macek. > Available at: http://ixtas.fri.uni-lj.si/~markom/fte > Systems: OS/2, NT, DOS, LINUX. > Configurable (and pre-configured) for several modes > (C, HTML, TEXINFO, TEX, ...). > Unfortunatly it is not very popular. But I like it because: > a) it's available for all platforms I use (although the DOS und > Windows versions are at an early state); > b) unlike emacs I can use it on (today) small machines like > my 386SX40/8MB. > > It would be nice if you could put my package on the CTAN servers. > I don't assume that there are many people using fte as TeX editor, but > maybe my work is useful for some of them. > > Thanks a lot! And thanks for the CTAN project, too! > > Oliver John von Zydowitz > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 22 09:53:02 1997 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:48:44 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- neufont.tex Bjoern Lorenz writes: > Hi again, > a user told me that neufont.tex would contain CR/LF's, so my ftp-client seems > to have uploaded it in binary mode. Now I repeated uploading in ASCII mode and > the file size indicates the correct format now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks, I replaced the file. Rainer Schöpf From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Fri Aug 22 13:02:06 1997 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:00:34 +0200 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: announcing T2 mailing list Daer friends, Vladimir Volovich has set up a mailing list for the (Cyrillic) T2 encoding and related stuff as fonts etc. In case of interest please subscribe to the list sending the message `subscribe cyrtug-t2' to majordomo@vvv.vsu.ru . Werner Lemberg From vvv@VVV.VSU.RU Fri Aug 22 13:28:29 1997 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:17:38 +0400 From: Vladimir Volovich To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: announcing T2 mailing list Hello, Werner Lemberg wrote: > Vladimir Volovich has set up a mailing list for the (Cyrillic) T2 encoding > and related stuff as fonts etc. > > In case of interest please subscribe to the list sending the message > `subscribe cyrtug-t2' to majordomo@vvv.vsu.ru . A little correction: the name of the list is CyrTeX-T2, so the command should be `subscribe cyrtex-t2'. With best regards, Vladimir. From eijkhout@MATH.UCLA.EDU Tue Aug 26 14:18:01 1997 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:13:00 -0700 From: Victor Eijkhout To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: comment.sty replaced on archive Robin Fairbairns has replaced an old version of my comment.sty with a new one: macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/comment.sty Version 3.2 to be precise. Main difference: in LaTeX writing \includecomment{thisone} \begin{thisone} ... \end{thisone} had the effect of \bgroup ... \egroup and I didn't want the grouping (in plain TeX, the \beginthisone and \endthisone commands were basically \relax.) This grouping has now disappeared. Unfortunately, for this to work, I now scoop up the whole sequence between \begin and \end, write it to a file, then read that in again. Some minor repair on the \specialcomment. Victor Eijkhout Department of Mathematics; UCLA; Los Angeles CA 90095 phone: +1 310 825 2173 / 9036; home +1 310 839 7853 http://www.math.ucla.edu/~eijkhout/ Support the League for Programming Freedom! lpf@uunet.uu.net From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:30:29 1997 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:28:47 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- ET John Collins writes: > I have uploaded the file et.tar to ftp.dante.de. > > It contains readme files and a self-extracting zip file for ET (Edit > TeX), a program to edit TeX files in a semi-WYSIWYG fashion on IBM-type > PC's. This is an update to a previous version on CTAN. > > I suggest unpacking the uploaded tar file to a directory > tex-archive/support/et. The old version tex-archive/support/etzip.exe > should be deleted. An appropriate description for the index in CTAN > is > > ET is a semi-WYSIWYG editor for (La)TeX files on IBM-type PCs. > > John Collins > Penn State University > collins@phys.psu.edu Thanks a lot, I installed the update as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:31:38 1997 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:31:06 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- accents Javier Bezos-Lpez writes: > I have uploaded the accents package, which is *not* a new version, but a new > documentation. > > Site: ftp.dante.de/incoming > Files: accents.dtx, accents.ins in the accents directory > Description: With this package multiple math accents are allowed > and new ones can be created. Slant of letters is taken care of, > and sub/superscripts placement is right. > Placement: the current one > Format: cleartext > > Mit freunlichen Gruessen. > > Javier Bezos-Lķpez Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Aug 27 04:33:35 1997 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:32:57 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- catdoc-0.32 Victor VAGNER writes: > Catdoc version 0.32 > is uploaded to ftp.dante.de > file: /incoming/catdoc-0.32.tar.gz > > catdoc is a filter which converts binary MS-Word file into ascii text, > optionally with > some TeX control sequences (for those characters, which have special > meaning > for TeX). > > Works on any UNIX platform and also have been tested on MS-DOS. > > This version is first official release of catdoc. All prevois was just > newsgroup > postings. > > -- > Victor Wagner > > Thank you for your submission. I installed the files under support/catdoc For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Aug 27 09:24:28 1997 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:21:37 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- hyper (update) Michael Mehlich writes: > I've just uploaded a new version of my hyper package to > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/hyper.zip > It contains some problem/bug fixes. > > The new directory contained in the zip-file replaces the old one at > macros/latex/contrib/supported/hyper Thanks. I've installed the update. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Aug 29 04:20:33 1997 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 09:15:49 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- findbib Fabrizio Nesti writes: > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de: > (b) findbib.tar.gz > findbib.README > (c) This is a shell script using awk, sed, lynx which builds a BIBTEX > database starting from just the source file. The bibtex records > are taken from the electronic physics archive at SPIRES-SLAC. > (d) Preferred directory of placement: > /tex-archive/bibliography/bibtex/utils/ > > Thanks for the attention and > best regards, > Fabrizio Nesti. Thank you for your submission. I installed the files in the proposed location at ftp.dante.de from where they will propagate to the other CTAN hosts. For the CTAN Team -- Rainer Schöpf Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung A point of view can be a dangerous der Universität Mainz luxury when substituted for insight Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12 and understanding. D-55099 Mainz Germany Herbert Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sat Aug 30 17:09:44 1997 Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:07:14 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN submission -- MiKTeX 1.08 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:00:32 +0200 > From: Christian Schenk > Subject: CTAN submission -- MiKTeX 1.08 > > I have uploaded to directory ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/miktex/ > version 1.08 of the MiKTeX distribution. MiKTeX is an implementation > of TeX & Friends for the win32/intel platform. > > Please clean up systems/win32/miktex/ and then install the new version > there. Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as requested. It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. -rz -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 4 10:56:10 1997 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 15:49:07 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- polyglot 1.1 (fwd) > Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 00:14:48 +0100 > From: Javier Bezos-Lpez > Subject: CTAN Submission -- polyglot 1.1 > I have uploaded a new version of the polyglot package. > > Site: ftp.dante.de > Files: > In /polyglot: polyglot.dtx, polyglot.ins, sample.tex > In /polyglot/langs: > english.ld, german.ld, german.ot1, > french.ld, french.ot1, spanish.ld, spanish.ot1, r_hebrew.ld > > Description: LaTeX multilingual support, with tools for ligatures, > syncronized wrinting to files and marks, > font encoding specific commands, translations, date, layout, > communication with classes, and more. Not many languages are > provided yet, but they can be created quite easily. > Future releases will include more features. > (Current version: 1.1.) > Current CTAN location: /macros/latex/contrib/supported/ > Suggested CTAN location: /language/ Thanks for your new version but: please upload text files in text mode next time, not in binary mode. It's quite boring to convert carriage returns to line feed chars. All available CTAN maintainers have voted to put the new version in the old place because it's mainly a LaTeX package with coincidally supports languages, just like the Babel system. So I installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/supported/polyglot. Regards, Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From gerd@MAILHOST.UNI-KOBLENZ.DE Fri Sep 5 09:20:52 1997 Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 14:18:24 +0200 From: Gerd Neugebauer To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: BibTool 2.41 BibTool 2.41 has been mirrored yesterday from my ftp-Server to the CTAN. It can be found there in the directory: /tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ Recent changes: - Version 2.41 New boolean resource print.equal.right which controls whether the = in normal entries is aligned right or left. New boolean resource print.wide.equal which controlls whether the equal sign is surrounded by spaces even if the alignment forces a narrower layout. New boolean resource print.comma.at.end which controlls whether the comma between fields is printed at the end or at the beginning of a fiel/value pair. New boolean resource print.deleted.entries which controls the treatment of deleted entries. If this resource is true then delete entries are put as comments into the output. This is the old behavior and thus it is the default. Pseudo field `sortkey' added. Pseudo field `source' added which contains the filename the record has been read from or the empty string if this can not be determined. Strings can be either local to a database or global. The output of macro does include local macros only. This is a point of incompatibility with previous versions. Massive extensions to BibTcl. Cleaning of the sources and massive addition of documentation. Now the documentation of the C functions is present. Thus it becomes possible to use the BibTool routines to write C programs. BibTcl is a first application of this technique. Nevertheless a few changes seem possible before things are cut in stone. Some additions have been made to support new features in the forthcoming BibTeX 1.0. They do not really work right now but just restrict the accepted input files. Flag --with-kpathsea added to configure. Some minor bugs fixed. A web page is available under the URL http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/ I append the README file of BibTool below. ====================================================================== ###### ############ ####### ############ ## ## ## ## ## ## ##### ## #### #### ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ## ####### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ####### ## ###### ## ###### ###### ####### ###### ## ##### ## #### #### ####### ====================================================================== BibTool: A Tool for Manipulating BibTeX Data Bases BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities --- and intentions --- of BibTeX. The possibilities of BibTool include * Pretty-printing BibTeX data bases adjustable by lots of parameters. * Syntactic checks with error recovery superior to BibTeX and helpful error messages. * Semantic checks can be specified by the user. * Sorting and merging of BibTeX data bases according to a free definable sort key. * Generation of uniform reference keys according to predefined rules or according to an own specification. * Selecting references used in one publication which are found by analyzing an .aux file. * Selecting references by a set of criteria (regular expressions). * Controlled rewriting of fields utilizing regular expressions to specify the rewriting rules. * Macro (String) expansion to eliminate the need of extra string definitions. * Collecting statistics about one or more BibTeX data bases. BibTool contains a documentation written in LaTeX of more than 40 pages (and still growing) BibTool is written in C and has been compiled on various operating systems like flavors of UN*X and MSDOG machines. It is distributed in source code. No compiled versions are available from the author (Useless to ask!) BibTool can be obtained from the CTAN archives: * ftp.dante.de:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ * ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/ or directly from the home site. * ftphost.uni-koblenz.de:/outgoing/gene/BibTool Get the file BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz where x.xx is the version number. Unpack it with the command (on UN*X) gunzip < BibTool-x.xx.tar.gz | tar -xvf - It will create a directory named BibTool-x.xx which contains the installation instructions in the file INSTALL. A WWW page is available under the URL * http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~gerd/ftp/BibTool/BibTool.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy it! Gerd Neugebauer gerd@informatik.uni-koblenz.de From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 11 04:22:41 1997 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:20:33 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry (fwd) > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:46:25 +0900 > From: Hideo Umeki > Subject: CTAN Submission --- geometry > > I have uploaded the new version of Geometry package (v1.08) > to ftp.dante.de/incoming/geometry.tar.gz. > > Changes from 1.07: > o A bug fixed > (Changed the catcode of `!' explicitly within the package) > o Some package files renamed and revised. > > This version would work well in the emTeX system. > > Please replace > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry > with the new one. Thanks for the submission. I installed the new version on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK Fri Sep 12 11:35:39 1997 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:18:17 +0100 From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: dotless j package Following on from a continuing thread on comp,text.tex about providing dotless j (\j, \jmath) for those fonts that do not contain the character, I have placed a dotlessj.sty package for LaTeX in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle This package will define a \j by removing the dot from a j by covering it with a white rule. It requires the standard LaTeX color package. Using a coloured rule (as opposed to alternatives such as applying a PostScript clip path) has some disadvantages, but it seems to be the most portable solution as it does not require any explicit PostScript support. This package should work with the OzTeX previewer, and has been tested with the Y&Y dviwindo previewer, and pdftex/acrobat, in addition to the normal PostScript route via dvips. David If you pick up the file too quickly you will find that I left the rule as yellow rather than white for debugging purposes. If your copy has the line {\color{yellow}% please change it to {\color{white}% From david@DCARLISLE.DEMON.CO.UK Fri Sep 12 12:21:26 1997 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 14:22:17 +0100 From: David Carlisle To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: etex support I have just placed an `etex' package on ctan in macros/latex/contrib/supported/carlisle/etex.sty The extended TeX variant, etex 1.1, comes with some macro files to provide some slightly higher level interfaces and allocation commands to access the extended primitives of etex. These files, etex.src and etexdefs.lib, are designed for plain TeX based formats. This package makes similar facilities available for LaTeX. David From wschmi@ibm.net Fri Sep 12 13:55:23 1997 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:54:59 +0200 From: Walter Schmidt To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: LaTeX support for old german fonts A new and enhanced LaTeX support package for the old german fonts is now available in the CTAN directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/yfonts . The package yfonts.sty supports the old german fonts `Gotisch', `Fraktur', `Schwabacher' and `Initialen' designed by Yannis Haralambous. In contrast to oldgerm.sty the package provides a full *NFSS interface*, and it may be used in conjunction with *german.sty*. The package comes as a documented LaTeX source with an installation script and an example document. This software replaces my now obsolete package fraktur.sty, which has been removed. Major changes are: * support for the gothic font, too * various bug fixes * better documentation Greetings Walter Schmidt ********************************************************************* Walter Schmidt Schornbaumstrasse 2, 91052 Erlangen, Germany pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF 36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9 ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* Walter Schmidt Schornbaumstrasse 2, 91052 Erlangen, Germany pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF 36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9 ********************************************************************* From kb@CS.UMB.EDU Sun Sep 14 13:08:28 1997 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:05:59 -0400 From: K. Berry To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: new backbone ctan host at tug2.cs.umb.edu The TeX Users Group is pleased to announce the availability of a new CTAN host at: ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/ We gratefully acknowledge Dante for donating the machine (a Sparc 10) and the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston for providing the network connection. Thanks to Norm Walsh, a search engine for CTAN holdings is available at: http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ tug2 is a full CTAN site and therefore holds the same data as the other backbone CTAN nodes: ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive, run by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; and ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive, run by DANTE e.V. It replaces the old host ftp.shsu.edu (which has not been operational for some time). It does not, however, currently support submissions. Please continue to use the incoming directories at ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de for that. Users should, as always, use the CTAN site closest to them; there are mirrors throughout the world. A list is appended to this message; you can get a current list via finger ctan@www.tug.org or the file CTAN.sites at any CTAN host. North American mirror sites should consider using this new host instead of the European hosts. Doing so should improve performance for everyone. There is no special account for mirroring at present, so it should be done via normal anonymous ftp. We hope to make the system available via the name ctan.tug.org eventually; unfortunately, we cannot do so right now. The name tug2.cs.umb.edu will be maintained indefinitely. For more information about TUG, please see http://www.tug.org. We encourage all TeX users to support CTAN by joining, as appropriate, UKTUG, Dante, TUG, or their local user group. Please send problems with the CTAN system to ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de. --kb@cs.umb.edu, for the TUG board and the CTAN group. 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The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are: ftp.dante.de (Deutschland) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.dante.de -- email via ftpmail@dante.de -- World Wide Web access on http://www.dante.de/ -- Administrator: ftp.tex.ac.uk (England) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive) -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive -- World Wide Web access on http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive -- Administrator: tug2.cs.umb.edu (Massachusetts, USA) -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/archive /ctan) -- World Wide Web access on http://tug2.cs.umb.edu/ctan/ -- Administrator: From pflynn@IMBOLC.UCC.IE Mon Sep 15 18:39:16 1997 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:35:09 +0100 From: Peter Flynn To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: new backbone ctan host at tug2.cs.umb.edu At 12:05 14/09/97 -0400, Karl wrote: >The TeX Users Group is pleased to announce the availability of a new >CTAN host at: > ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/ This is now reflected in the index at http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/ctan ///Peter From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Sep 16 11:03:45 1997 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:00:56 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Accented-font utilities mkt1font and vpl2vpl John Smith (of this university's faculty of oriental studies) > Both programs do the same task - they read in a font file and a definition > file specifying a character set containing arbitrarily complex accented > characters, and they output a new font file implementing that character > set for that font. One of them works with TeX virtual fonts, the other > with Type 1 PostScript. (It may seem slightly odd to suggest putting the > latter on CTAN, but (a) the two programs do very much belong together, (b) > CTAN already contains a number of Type 1 manipulation tools.) CTAN does > contain programs claiming to do related tasks: qdtexvpl by Eberhard Mattes > describes itself as doing "quick and dirty conversion of TeX code to VPL", > and there is also Jiri Zlatuska's accents.web (which I cannot successfully > tangle). But I am not aware of any program that employs a clean, > comprehensible definition file using PostScript character-names, that > permits multiple accents and dropped accents, that generalises kerning > information ... and I am certainly not aware of any program that can > recode Type 1 fonts. I have installed these two programs on CTAN in directory fonts/utilities/accfonts Thanks, John, for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Sat Sep 20 11:55:24 1997 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:51:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- pdftex-DJGPP.zip Weiqi Gao writes: > (a-b) I have uploaded the file pdftex-DJGPP.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk. > (c) PDFTeX executable compiled with DJGPP v.2.01, to be used with > the DJGPP v.2.01 port of web2c for DOS and Windows 95. > (d) ${CTAN}/systems/pdftex/bin/DJGPP/pdftex-DJGPP.zip I have installed the pacakge as suggested. Thanks for the submission. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 21 08:42:56 1997 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:42:06 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- grnumalt > I have uploaded on ftp.dante.de/incoming the archive grnumalt.tar.gz > which contains the version 1.1 of the package grnumalt. Please > replace existing files with the new ones. > The old reside at: > /pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/grnumalt Thanks for the new version, I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested. It will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. A short extract from the .dtx file: % This little \LaTeX\ package implements the macro % \DescribeMacro{\athnum} % |\athnum|. The macro transforms an Arabic numeral, i.e., the kind % of numerals we all use (e.g., 1, 5, 789 etc), to the corresponding % {\itshape Athenian} numeral. Athenian numerals were in use only in % ancient Athens. % The special multiples, which the system employs, are drawn % \DescribeMacro{\PiIt} with the special macro |\PiIt|. The macro % produces a more or less $\Pi$-like shape above a letter. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Sun Sep 21 08:46:36 1997 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 13:46:07 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN-Submission: jura.cls update > I uploaded the current version of my jura-documentclass to the DANTE > ftp-server. The files in the incoming directory should replace those > actually in CTAN:tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jura/ Thanks for the update; I installed it on ftp.dante.de as suggested. It will soon spread to thue other CTAN hosts and mirrors. jura.cls is a document class for "juristische Hausarbeiten". The documentation is in German. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 22 05:50:05 1997 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:47:27 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- btparse-0.2 and Text::BibTex 0.2 Greg Ward writes: > I have just uploaded two libraries for parsing and basic processing of > BibTeX files to ftp.ctan.ac.uk. The files are: > > btparse-0.2.tar.gz C library for parsing BibTeX files > Text-BibTeX-0.2.tar.gz Perl library for parsing BibTeX files > (requires btparse-0.2.tar.gz) > > It looks to me like the most sensible place for these would be > /biblio/bibtex/utils. I've stuck the two files in a directory biblio/bibtex/utils here at ftp.tex.ac.uk Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Mon Sep 22 10:27:06 1997 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:32:39 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: upload of version 2.0 of cbpunct.mf and cbdigits.mf (fwd) > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:29:51 GMT+1 > From: "prof. Claudio Beccari" > Subject: upload of version 2.0 of cbpunct.mf and cbdigits.mf > > I have just uploaded in the \incoming diectory version 2.0 of the > following files: > > cbdigits.mf > cbpunct.mf > > Please upgrade with the above version 2.0 files the corresponding > files with the same name that I uploaded three months ago; they should be > in a directory named .../greek/cb. Thanks, I installed the new files on ft.dante.de in fonts/greek/cb/mf. They will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Thu Sep 25 03:07:44 1997 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:03:24 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX for NT AXP (fwd) > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:32:05 +0200 > From: Alexander Dong > Subject: CTAN Submission -- MikTeX for NT AXP > > I have uploaded the files for MikTeX-Win32-AXP. This MikTeX version is > for Windows NT Dec ALPHA. Please copy all the files from > /incoming/MikTex.axp to : > ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/win32/miktex-AXP. Thanks for the subscription. I installed the new version of your files on ftp.dante.de as suggested; they will soon be copied to the other CTAN hosts and mirrors Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From sbury@SLARTI.UCD.IE Thu Sep 25 06:56:04 1997 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:53:20 +0000 From: Sophie Bury To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Mirror To whom it may concern : I have been in contact with Robin Fairbairns who is involved in the administration of CTAN at ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk. We have arranged that the Irish National Information Server will now host a mirror of this archive in the ftp space on this server. This mirror is now up and running and Robin asked me to inform you that this mirror is now in place and can be found at ftp://ftp.hea.ie/pub/ctan/tex/ Best regards, Sophie Bury Sophie Bury Information Manager National Information Server Project UCD Computer Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4 Phone : 7062032 E-mail : sbury@slarti.ucd.ie From jlbraams@CISTRON.NL Sun Sep 28 15:21:23 1997 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:18:36 +0200 From: Johannes L. Braams To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: New releases of changebar and supertabular Hello, As of tomorrow 29th september both the packages supertabular and changebar will be available from CTAN in new versions, as described below. Supertabular version 4.1a: Two new environments have been added, mpsupertabular and mpsupertabular*. They were provided by Axel Kielhorn . These environemnts are variants of the old supertabular environments that put each tabular segment in its own minipage. This easses the addition of footnotes to a multipage tabular. Fixed a few bugs, one with \\[...] inside \tablehead and \tabletail, the other in the calculation of the available height on the first page of the supertabular. This one affected it's use in twocolumn mode only. Changebar version 3.3c Finally fixed the bug that produced diagonal bars when a changebar was started near the end of a page. Also made changebar work in LaTeX's twocolumn mode, in twocolumn the bars appear on the `outside' of each column (which means to the left of the left column and to the right of the right column). Also fixed a bug in the calculation of the positioning of the bars. If you encounter any problems with these packages please report them to me, using the latexbug.tex mechanism Kind regards, Johannes Braams From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Sep 29 12:55:38 1997 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:52:31 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Miscellaneous `carlisle' packages David Carlisle has submitted the following: > textcase.sty > \MakeTextUppercase and \MakeTextLowercase are similar to the standard > \MakeUppercase and \MakeLowercase, but they do not change the case of > any sections of mathematics within the argument. > > remreset.sty > \@removefromreset: a companion to the standard \@addtoreset command > allows counters to be removed from the reset list of a controlling > counter. For example, a class file based on book class may say > \@removefromreset{footnote}{chapter} > so that footnotes are no longer reset every chapter (the book class > default). > > scalefnt.sty > \scalefont{2} selects the current font in twice the current size. > \scalefont{.75} reduces the current font size by three quarters. I've installed them here at ftp.tex.ac.uk (I discussed with David the fact that remreset.sty duplicates the facilities of macros/latex/contrib/other/fragments/removefr.tex, and we agreed that it should nevertheless be installed; the implementation is slightly different.) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 30 13:16:16 1997 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 18:11:51 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ftp.dante.de down on Thu 2 Oct The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. The CTAN host ftp.dante.de (a.k.a. www.dante.de) will be down for network maintenance sometime during next thursday 2 Oct. -- Rainer Schöpf From KNAPPEN@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Sep 30 14:31:00 1997 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:30:10 +0100 From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Ann: Hyphenation patterns for bahasa indonesia, latin2jk.def Herewith I announce two new files on CTAN: languages/hyphenation/inhyph.tex contains hyphenation patterns for bahasa indonesia, co-authored by Terry Mart. macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen/latin2jk.def contains a definition file for the inputenc package, where all characters from IS=-8859-2 (Latin-2) are loaded as text characters. This allows verbatim setting of Latin-2 encoded files. --J"org Knappen From zierke@INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE Wed Oct 1 09:17:02 1997 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 14:09:58 +0200 From: Reinhard Zierke To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt New Dictionaries (fwd) > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 00:29:03 -0300 > From: Aleksander Simonic > Subject: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt New Dictionaries > > I have just uploaded the latest user-contributed dictionaries > (Russian and Spanish) to > > ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/*.* > > Please move these files to > > tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/dict > > The file "00readme.txt" in the same directory should also be > replaced with the updated one. Thanks for the update! I installed the new files on ftp.dante.de as suggested. Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team -- Reinhard Zierke Universitaet Hamburg, FB Informatik zierke@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30, D-22527 Hamburg postmaster@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Tel.: (040) 5494-2295/2276 Fax: -2241 From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 6 19:29:20 1997 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:12:39 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: grfpaste package upload to Cambridge David Carlisle writes: > I put a grfpaste.zip in incoming. > With a bit of luck it will expand to > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 9656 Oct 6 09:37 dvipaste.txt > -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 239 Oct 5 23:36 grfp1.tex > -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 573 Oct 5 23:36 grfp2.tex > -rw-rw-r-- 1 david david 567 Oct 5 23:36 grfp3.tex > -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 6820 Oct 5 23:36 grfpaste.sty (it did) > (one package, three example files and some documentation) could you > move that to a new directory contrib/supported/grfpaste > thanks. > > This provides an mechanism to include fragments of dvi files > with the graphicx package. \includegraphics{file.dvi} etc. > It requires the dvipaste program (the C source for which is available > on ctan already). > > (The documentation is called dvipaste.txt so it shows up with > quote site index dvipaste. The package is called grfpaste to > avoid clashes with an existing package) I have installed the package as requested. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From xlwy01@uxp1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de Mon Oct 6 15:29:11 1997 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:24:25 +0200 From: Werner Lemberg To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCING CJK 4.1.3 [Chin/Jap/Kor for LaTeX2e] I've uploaded version 4.1.3 of my CJK package to the CTAN hosts (i.e. ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, tug2.cs.umb.edu, and its mirrors, e.g. ftp.cdrom.com). It will be soon available in the following directory: tex-archive/language/chinese/CJK Below you find the release notes of this version. Happy TeXing Werner [CJK is a macro package which enables the use of Chinese/Japanese/Korean together with Latin (including Vietnamese) and Cyrillic based scripts with LaTeX2e. It supports various encodings, e.g. GB, JIS, Big 5, CNS, Unicode.] ======================================================================== Version 4.1.3: new: 20-Jun-1997 hbf2gf can now create virtual Omega (.ofm) files. ttf2pk (and its scripts) now supports Unicode encoded fonts. cjk-enc.el for emacs 20. Russian support (in T2 encoding) for Mule/emacs 20. Please contact me for fonts, hyphenation patterns, and macro packages since the new LH font package has not appeared yet. JIS X 0201 support for Mule/emacs 20. experimental support for Thai (only emacs 20). This is basically C-TTeX version 1.51 adapted to CJK. Anybody who is interested in this stuff (and has some knowledge on Thai, contrary to me :-) please contact me so I can improve it. Please read cjk-enc.doc for more details. ntu2cjk version 1.8: now supports partial downloading of NTU fonts with dvips. installation checklist added to INSTALL. installation instructions written in Chinese GB contributed by YAO Fude . UTF8.tex example added. changed: MULEenc.sty: \hbar and \HBAR replaced with \textmalteseh and \textmalteseH respectively according to the LaTeX2e release June 1997. further simplifications. external CJK font packages, script and documentation files updated to TDS standard. c70song.fd: now uses cyberbit.ttf as default font. errors: make*.btm scripts now really work :-) (thanks to ). c00cns.fd was incorrectly stored as c00CNS.fd . MULEenc.sty: expansion macro improved (the old version prevented kerning if used with e.g. \MakeUppercase). hbf2gf: support for Unicode encoded HBF files was totally broken. always used non-rotated x and y input sizes. the HBF interface will now use only one file handle per opened font---previously it used one file handle per HBF_CODE_RANGE line (Mark Leisher ). ttf2pk: can now handle fonts like avkv.ttf which have a non-standard way to handle the end of the glyph index. a nasty allocation bug removed due to missing modulo 65536 operations (thanks to YANG Ching-Hsiang ). this is the last version based on the current TrueType rasterizer. A future version will use the FreeType library. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 7 05:44:24 1997 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 10:41:24 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN submission to dante --- CJK Werner Lemberg writes: > I've just uploaded CJK-4.1.3.{bin,src,rest}.{zip,tar.gz} to dante. > > Please unpack the src package into language/chinese/CJK, removing any > older version. The other two archives, src and rest, should stay > compressed. > > Additionally I ask to update CJK-4.1.2.src.README accordingly. Thanks, installed as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Tue Oct 7 08:51:03 1997 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 13:38:57 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- listings update Carsten Heinz writes: > I've put an update of my listings package at ftp.dante.de/incoming. > The location of the package is > /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/listings > > Thanks in advance > Carsten Heinz Thanks for the update, I installed it. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 9 13:59:28 1997 Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 18:55:51 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- dvips 5.76 for emTeX and OS/2+DOS/Win Wonkoo Kim writes: > I have uploaded ftp.dante.de/incoming/dvips576.zip. > > This is dvips 5.76 (dvi to postscript converter) for emTeX and OS/2 > or DOS(/Win/Win95/NT). > > This package was compiled with emx/gcc 0.9c fix04 under OS/2 Warp, > after patching (for emTeX) the original dvips 5.76 sources of > /pub/tex/dviware/dvips/dvips576.tar.gz on CTAN site. > > The archive includes OS/2+DOS bound executables, patched sources/diffs > (but not unpatched sources), tfm files, virtual fonts, and some docs. > > The executables should also work on DOS, Win3.1, Win95, or NT with > EMX/RSX/RSXWIN/RSXNT runtime modules. > > Please replace the old version of > pub/tex/systems/os2/dviware/dvips/dvips574.zip > > Since this should work for MSDOS as well, please make the link for > pub/tex/systems/msdos/dviware/dvips/dvips576.zip > > Thank you. > > //-------------------------------------------------------------------- > // Wonkoo Kim (wkim+@pitt.edu) Thanks a lot, I made the update as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From rey@ams.org Fri Oct 10 00:14:45 1997 Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 23:12:58 -0400 From: Ralph Youngen To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: release of AMSFonts in PostScript format The American Math Society is pleased to announce the release, for free and unrestricted use, the Type-1 (PostScript) versions of the AMSFonts. This collection includes the Euler, ``extra symbol'' and cyrillic fonts in selected sizes. These fonts, produced by Blue Sky Research, of Portland, Oregon, and Y&Y Inc., of Concord, Massachusetts, and previously distributed by them, are made available through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers along with Blue Sky and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include: Elsevier Science IBM Corporation Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Springer-Verlag American Mathematical Society (AMS) In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be held by the AMS. This is not meant to restrict in any way the legitimate use of the fonts. However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in any way. A more detailed statement of these requirements can be found at the AMS Web site, http://www.ams.org/tex/ . The canonical versions of these fonts are located on the AMS FTP server and are also accessible via the Web: ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/psfonts/ams Four system-specific packages are available from the AMS site: for use on Macintosh, containing the fonts in standard Macintosh Type 1 format - packaged as required for use by Textures - packaged for use by OzTeX, CMacTeX, or other Mac TeX implementations for use on a Windows or DOS system, containing fonts in PFB format with PFM metrics files; for use on a Unix system, containing fonts in PFB format with AFM metrics files. Each system-specific package is accompanied by a READ.ME file which contains instructions for downloading and installing the fonts. Please review the appropriate READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking to install the fonts on your system. The fonts in Macintosh and PFB (binary Type 1 outline) formats, along with metrics in appropriate form, will be mirrored on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) in the area fonts/amsfonts/ps-type1 Users requiring the fonts in PFA (ASCII Type 1) form should convert them with the aid of one of the tools available for that purpose from CTAN. The AMS does not provide installation assistance or technical support beyond any installation instructions included with the collection. Installation and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 13 04:41:41 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:37:04 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: upload from GUST: polish.tar.gz Stanis/law Wawrykiewicz writes: > I've just uploaded do DANTE:/incoming/polish.tar.gz > Please remove old language/polish/ and then unpack new upload from > main TeX directory (it contains already language/polish/ ) > New: > 00README > popolsku.zip > pl-mf.zip (MF sources) > plpsfonts directory with PL fonts in T1 > mex105.zip (the version is not changed, only small adds and slightly > modified documentations) > czytaj.mex > readme.mex > > Other files are not changed. > Please make also link: > cd /tex-archive/fonts/psfonts > ln -s ../../language/polish/plpsfont > > Thanks and cheers, > **StaW > > Thanks a lot, I made the changes as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Mon Oct 13 06:35:20 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:32:17 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- rmpage > Uploaded to: ftp.tex.ac.uk > > Files uploaded: rmpage.sty > rmpage.tex > rmpgen.cfg > rmplocal.gfc > readme > > In directory incoming/rmpage > > Suggested destination: macros/latex/contrib/supported/ > > Brief description: > > The rmpage package lets you change page layout parameters in small > steps over a range of values using options. It can set \textwidth > appropriately for the main fount, and ensure that the text fits inside > the printable area of a printer. > > An rmpage-formatted document can be typeset identically without > rmpage after a single cut and paste operation. Local configuration > can set defaults: for all documents; or by class, by printer, and by > paper size. > > The geometry package is better if you want to set layout parameters to > particular measurements. Thanks for the upload -- I've installed it here, and it should propagate fairly soon. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de Mon Oct 13 11:02:35 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:59:24 +0200 From: Ulrik Vieth To: ctan@urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: CTAN submission -- concmath fonts I have uploaded two files to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming: (1) concmath-fonts.tar.gz This file unpacks into fonts/concmath and includes a new release of the Concrete Math fonts that were derived from the Concrete Roman fonts designed by Don Knuth. It is intended to replace the original contents of CTAN:fonts/concmath. Changes compared to the original release of the `concmath' fonts as of February 1995 include: - new font shapes added: xccex[7-9], xccam[5-9], xccbm[5-9] - bug fixes: `math_fitting:=true' for all sizes of xccmi, xccsy - updates: parameters of xccmi, xccsy, xccex, etc. corrected to reflect the latest official version of Knuth's ccr fonts Warning: The bug fix regarding `math_fitting:=true' unfortunately implies a change of font metrics for xccmi[5-8] and xccsy[5-8]. Hopefully, after this bug fix there should no need to change these font metrics ever again. (2) concmath-latex.tar.gz This file unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/concmath and includes a new release of the `concmath' LaTeX package and the corresponding font definition files. This is now a fully documented LaTeX package that replaces the original version of the unsupported `concmath.sty' in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath. It was tried to ensure that the `concmath' package remains compatible with Walter Schmidt's `ccfonts' package that also provides access to the T1-encoded version of the Concrete fonts known as `ecc' fonts while the `concmath' only supports the original OT1-encoded version of Don Knuth's Concrete fonts. Even if you prefer to use the `ccfonts' package instead of `concmath', you may still be interested to read the documentation of the `concmath' package for background information about how the Concrete Math fonts were derived from Concrete Roman. Both packages include a `README' file containing further descriptions of the packages and detailed installation instructions. Both packages also include a `Makefile' for easy installation in a TDS-compatible TEXMF directory tree. Happy TeXing! Ulrik Vieth. From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 13 11:35:49 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:32:08 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.3 Michael Lenzen writes: > CTAN Submission > > update 'g-brief' rel. 2.2 to rel. 2.3 > > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b) 'g-brief.tar.gz' to /incoming > > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for > formatting formless letters in german or english language > > (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/g-brief/ > (please replace and remove old and obsolete files) > > Regards. > > Michael Lenzen Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@uni-mainz.de Mon Oct 13 11:42:43 1997 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:40:43 +0200 (MEST) From: Rainer Schoepf To: Ulrik Vieth Cc: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN , math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk Subject: Re: CTAN submission -- concmath fonts Ulrik Vieth writes: > I have uploaded two files to ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming: > > (1) concmath-fonts.tar.gz > > This file unpacks into fonts/concmath and includes a new release of > the Concrete Math fonts that were derived from the Concrete Roman > fonts designed by Don Knuth. It is intended to replace the original > contents of CTAN:fonts/concmath. > > Changes compared to the original release of the `concmath' fonts > as of February 1995 include: > > - new font shapes added: xccex[7-9], xccam[5-9], xccbm[5-9] > > - bug fixes: `math_fitting:=true' for all sizes of xccmi, xccsy > > - updates: parameters of xccmi, xccsy, xccex, etc. corrected > to reflect the latest official version of Knuth's ccr fonts > > Warning: The bug fix regarding `math_fitting:=true' unfortunately > implies a change of font metrics for xccmi[5-8] and xccsy[5-8]. > Hopefully, after this bug fix there should no need to change these > font metrics ever again. > > > (2) concmath-latex.tar.gz > > This file unpacks into macros/latex/contrib/supported/concmath and > includes a new release of the `concmath' LaTeX package and the > corresponding font definition files. This is now a fully documented > LaTeX package that replaces the original version of the unsupported > `concmath.sty' in CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/other/concmath. > > It was tried to ensure that the `concmath' package remains compatible > with Walter Schmidt's `ccfonts' package that also provides access to > the T1-encoded version of the Concrete fonts known as `ecc' fonts > while the `concmath' only supports the original OT1-encoded version of > Don Knuth's Concrete fonts. Even if you prefer to use the `ccfonts' > package instead of `concmath', you may still be interested to read the > documentation of the `concmath' package for background information > about how the Concrete Math fonts were derived from Concrete Roman. > > > Both packages include a `README' file containing further descriptions > of the packages and detailed installation instructions. Both packages > also include a `Makefile' for easy installation in a TDS-compatible > TEXMF directory tree. > > > Happy TeXing! > > Ulrik Vieth. Thanks a lot for the update, I installed it as requested. For the CTAN Team Raienr Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 15 07:18:26 1997 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:13:16 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Enrico Bertolazzi writes: > I have put in the directory /incoming of ftp.dante.de a gziped > tar file easy.tar.gz. It contains: > > version 0.7 of the `easyeqn' package > version 0.6 of the `easyvector' package > version 0.4 of the `easybmat' package > version 0.1 of the `easymat' package > version 0.5 of the `easytable' package > version 0.4 of the `easybib' package. > > This file should replace > the files in /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/easy > wich contain the old versions. > > The package \package{easyeqn} introduce some equation > environments that simplify writing of equations. > It uses a syntax similar to the array environment to define > the column alignment. A package option cases only those > equations that were \emph{labeled and referenced} to be numbered. > > The \package{easyvector} package is a simple > macro package that provides a C-like syntax for writing vectors or matrices. > > The \package{easybmat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easytable} package is > a macro package for writing tables, with equal column widths > or equal rows heights or both, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows and columns. It > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easymat} package is > a macro package for writing block matrices, with various > kinds of rules~(lines) between rows or columns, and > uses an array/tabular-like syntax. > > The \package{easybib} package is > a macro package for writing custom bibliography > with a simple AmSTeX-like sintax. > > Thanks a lot for the attention, > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Enrico Bertolazzi > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Strutturale > Universitā degli Studi di Trento > Via Mesiano 77 Tel: +39-461-882590 > I-38050 Trento Fax: +39-461-882599 > Italy mailto:enrico.bertolazzi@ing.unitn.it > ____________________________________________________________________________ Thanks a lot for the update, which I installed as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Wed Oct 15 07:23:09 1997 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:16:58 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- WinEdt Contributions Aleksander Simonic writes: > I have just uploaded the latest contributions to > > ftp.dante.de/incoming/winedt/*.* > > Please move these files to > > tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/contrib > > > Thanks you. > > Sincerely yours, > > Aleksander Simonic Thanks a lot, I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Wed Oct 15 10:46:46 1997 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:29:40 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- from Ideal Fonts Bernard Gaulle writes: > I've uploaded in /incoming/IdealFonts 2 files that might help Textures users: > > - "LW35 T1 installer.hqx" for people willing to use easily the basic 35 > Adobe fonts with the T1 font encoding, with LaTeX as well as with > "Plain (VDC).tex". This is an automatic installer which prompt the > user for his Textures folder and do the job. Two tests files are provided, > one for LaTeX (automatically launched) and one for Plain (assuming you > are running with a T1 like format). Check these files for comments. > > - "LaTeX R7 installer.hqx" for people willing to automatically install > that last LaTeX version under Textures. The user is prompted for his > Textures folder and last version of LaTeX is then replaced by the new. > The LaTeX format is not provided and it is the user job to recreate > it at his own wish. Notice that VDC users have to reinstall the package > and recreate the format too. > > These files may obviously be used separately from any other product and > were prepared by Ideal Fonts, just for the pleasure of Textures users. > > Unfortunately, comments used along the installation are in French, but > the previous comments here are really enough, so i hope it will be ok > for everybody. I have: (1) renamed the files to LW35_T1_installer.hqx and LaTeX_R7_installer.hqx (for the CTAN admins' convenience) and (2) installed them in a new directory systems/mac/textures/contrib/IdealFonts (3) made the IdealFonts demo directory VDC a subdirectory of IdealFonts Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 16 10:02:04 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:52:25 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: greek font bundle Apostolos Syropoulos writes: > Dear Sirs, > > I have uploaded in the /incoming directory of ftp.dante.de > the file bundle greek.tar.gz which contains several files which > must replace existing files in thr languages/greek/cb directory. > Please, note that you *must* remove the directory > languages/greek/misc, as the files contained work only for the cb > fonts. > > Yours Sincerely, > > Apostolos Syropoulos > > **************************************************************** > *Apostolos Syropoulos * > *snail mail: 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00 Xanthi, HELLAS * > *email : apostolo@obelix.ee.duth.gr * > *phone num.: +30-(0)541-28704 * > *home page : http://obelix.ee.duth.gr/~apostolo * > **************************************************************** Thanks a lot for the update. I installed the files as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 16 10:05:35 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:53:48 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- > I've just uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk the file imac.tar.Z. (In fact I've used a replacement set) > It is a set of > files for producing correctly formated documents for the International > Modal Analysis Conference. It includes a style file, bst file, an example > (with supporting files) and the expected resulting ps file. I'd suggest > placing the files in > macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/ and/or biblio/bibtex/contrib/ > > Since there are two separate places for style files and bst files, I don't > know which would be best, but I would think they should be kept together. > Perhaps a new directory should be added to CTAN for simple formats, > including style and bst files, instead of putting them with more general > tools? I've installed the lot in macros/latex/contrib/other/imac: there's precedent for doing that sort of thing. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Thu Oct 16 13:28:39 1997 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:25:08 +0100 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: ctan upload mistake Robert Bernecky writes: > I have uploaded a LaTeX2e thesis class definition and example .tex > file to go with it to /incoming/utorontothesis/. I have installed these files on CTAN in macros/latex/contrib/supported/utorontothesis Thanks for the submission Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 20 08:05:40 1997 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:48:32 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- Toru SATO writes: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I uploaded a small macro with its document to CTAN as follows: > a) site: ftp.dante.de. > b) file: slashbox.tar.gz > c) function: draw an oblique (slash) line in a 'tabular' column of LaTeX > d) location: maybe /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other > > Thank you. > > Toru Sato (tsato@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp) > Associate Professor > Department of Electronics and Communication > Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan > http://www-lab26.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tsato Thanks a lot, I installed the files in macros/latex/contrib/other/slashbox For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 20 08:00:25 1997 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 12:51:42 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: Upload - exam.zip Jason Alexander writes: > Hello. > > This is in response to an earlier email message I sent. > I apologize for giving my class file the same name as a previously > existing package. I failed to look closely enough in the CTAN directory to > see the other one. > > Once I found the other "exam" package, I read the description and saw that > some of the same feature were described. However, the type of output > generated by the exams are rather different. And my package, if I may say > so, allows for a wider variety of test types. > > I hope that my new class file may be of some use and is judged to merit > inclusion in the CTAN archive. I believe it may be more accessible to the > novice user than the other package. > > Since another location is needed for my class file, how about: > > CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign > > That is, if you decide to post it. > > Jason Alexander Thanks a lot, I installed the package as proposed. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From greg@BIC.MNI.MCGILL.CA Tue Oct 21 18:56:23 1997 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 17:48:55 -0400 From: Greg Ward To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: ANNOUNCE: Perl module for parsing BibTeX files Text::BibTeX version 0.21 Greg Ward (greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca) Text::BibTeX is a Perl module (with a couple of helper modules) for reading, parsing, and writing BibTeX files. The distribution includes the Text::BibTeX, Text::BibTeX::File, and Text::BibTeX::Entry modules; most of the hard work is done by a C library called btparse (which must be downloaded separately from the Text::BibTeX modules). The C library, btparse, is also a fully functional (and partially documented) interface to BibTeX files. If you demand the utmost in efficiency, or want to write an interface to BibTeX for some other high-level language, btparse might be for you. Features provided by the modules include: * robust, efficient lexical scanning and parsing of BibTeX files * excellent error detection, reporting, and recovery in the parser * full processing of BibTeX strings (macros expanded, whitespace collapsed, strings concatenated) * handles all common entry types (@comment, @preamble, @string, and "everything else) with ease, and gives you full access to the contents of all entry types * support for processing author names identically to BibTeX * preliminary support for imposing/enforcing a particular database structure btparse provides all of the above features, plus it is much more flexible with regards to the amount of processing done to strings. You can turn off macro expansion, whitespace collapsing, and token pasting at will. (Eventually, these features will migrate to the Perl code.) But you have to program in C to use it, which isn't nearly as much fun as Perl. ;-) Changes to both btparse and Text::BibTeX with release 0.21: * several bugs (mostly in the btparse library and the C<->Perl interface code) have been fixed * portability of btparse library has been greatly enhanced, mainly due to the addition of an Autoconf-generated `configure' script * fixed some documentation bugs The home ftp site for Text::BibTeX and btparse is ftp://ftp.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pub/users/greg/ They're also both available from CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) in /biblio/bibtex/utils/btparse and from CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) in /modules/by-authors/Greg_Ward -- Greg Ward - Research Assistant greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca Brain Imaging Centre (WB201) http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~greg Montreal Neurological Institute voice: (514) 398-4965 (or 1996) Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 fax: (514) 398-8948 From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 23 05:44:37 1997 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:39:20 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- examdesign.zip Jason Alexander writes: > I've just uploaded a newer version of the 'exam' LaTeX class file (stored > in the directory: > CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/examdesign > > This version basically patches bugs that slipped by me for the v1.0 release. > It also includes two example files (instead of just one). Thanks a lot, I installed the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Thu Oct 23 05:45:40 1997 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:40:49 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- installing_psnfss_on_emtex.pdf Chris Inacio writes: > a) site uploaded to: ftp.dante.de > b) files uploaded: installing_psnfss_on_emtex.pdf > c) brief overview: this file is a quick step-by-step procedure on how > to install PSNFSS into EmTeX > d) recommended placement: /tex-archive/info > > -- > Chris Inacio > Carnegie Mellon University > Electrical and Computer Engineering Department > (412) 268 - 4268 > mailto:inacio@ece.cmu.edu > finger inacio@ece.cmu.edu for pgp key Thanks a lot, I installed the file as proposed. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Fri Oct 24 04:25:32 1997 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:23:02 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- g-brief 2.4 Michael Lenzen writes: > update 'g-brief' rel. 2.3 to rel. 2.4 > > (a) uploaded to ftp.dante.de > > (b) 'g-brief.tar.gz' to /incoming > > (c) g-brief is a document class for LaTeX 2e and serves for > formatting formless letters in german or english language > > (d) macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/g-brief/ > (please replace and remove old and obsolete files) Thanks a lot, installed in macros/latex/contrib/supported/g-brief For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 27 03:33:12 1997 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:27:16 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: ctan submission (EC Concrete Fonts and LaTeX interface) Walter Schmidt writes: > I have just uploaded the following archives to the \incoming > directory at ftp.dante.de: > > (1) ecc09.zip > (2) ccfon98.zip > > Please move their contents to > > (1) fonts/ecc > (2) macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccfonts > > This will replace various existent files and add some new > ones. (Text files in the archives have Unix-style line > endings, i.e. only.) > > Description: > > (1) This updates the EC Concrete fonts, adding some further > design sizes. > > (2) This updates the LaTeX package `ccfonts' with respect to > the updated EC Concrete fonts (see above) and the recently > improved Concmath fonts. Additionally, scaling of the math > extension font is provided via a new `exscale' option. > > Greetings > > Walter > > > ********************************************************************* > Walter Schmidt > Schornbaumstrasse 2, 91052 Erlangen, Germany > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF 36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9 > ********************************************************************* Thanks a lot, I installed the updates as requested. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From schoepf@UNI-MAINZ.DE Mon Oct 27 03:35:35 1997 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:29:33 +0200 From: Rainer Schoepf To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: ctan upload (LaTeX package cmsd) Walter Schmidt writes: > I have just uploaded the archive file cmsd.zip to the > \incoming directory at ftp.dante.de. Please move its > contents to the directory (to be created): > > macros/latex/supported/cmsd > > Description: > ----------- > This is the LaTeX package `cmsd.sty' incl. additional .fd > files. Its purpose is to provide an altermative interface > to the CM Sans Serif boldface fonts. > > The EC (T1, Cork) encoded versions of the `CM Sans Serif > boldface extended' fonts differ considerably from the > traditionally (OT1) encoded ones: > > At large sizes, > 10pt, they have thinner strokes and are > much wider. At 25pt they are hardly to be recognized as > being `boldface'. > > The LaTeX package `cmsd' can solve this problem: Using this > package will---as much as possible---make these T1 fonts > look like the traditional ones did. > > You do *not* need any new fonts; the package just changes > the way LaTeX makes use of the current ones. > > Greetings > > Walter > ********************************************************************* > Walter Schmidt > Schornbaumstrasse 2, 91052 Erlangen, Germany > pgp key (1024 bits, keyID 69D36B8D): see > pgp key fingerprint: 1C E5 A5 D8 B8 F7 E2 EF 36 55 69 EC D8 26 94 A9 > ********************************************************************* Thanks a lot, I installed the package in macros/latex/contrib/supported/cmsd For the CTAN Team Rainer Schoepf From Robin.Fairbairns@CL.CAM.AC.UK Tue Oct 28 10:22:53 1997 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:16:47 +0000 From: Robin Fairbairns To: Multiple recipients of list CTAN-ANN Subject: Re: CTAN Submission -- adfathesis Stephen Harker wrote: > I have uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk a file called adfathesis.zip which is > a zip archive of a thesis package for the Australian Defence Force > Academy. > > This class is a modificatio