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Reinhard Zierke | 4 Sep 1997 15:49
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CTAN Submission -- polyglot 1.1 (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 4 Sep 1997 00:14:48 +0100
> From: Javier Bezos-Lpez <jbezos@...>
> 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.
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Gerd Neugebauer | 5 Sep 1997 14:18
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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.
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Reinhard Zierke | 11 Sep 1997 09:20
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CTAN Submission --- geometry (fwd)

> Date:         Thu, 11 Sep 1997 15:46:25 +0900
> From: Hideo Umeki <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

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David Carlisle | 12 Sep 1997 15:18
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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}%
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David Carlisle | 12 Sep 1997 15:22
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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
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Walter Schmidt | 12 Sep 1997 18:54

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 <wschmi@...>
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K.Berry | 14 Sep 1997 18:05

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@...  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;
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Peter Flynn | 15 Sep 1997 23:35
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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
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Robin Fairbairns | 16 Sep 1997 16:00
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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
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Robin Fairbairns | 20 Sep 1997 16:51
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Re: CTAN Submission -- pdftex-DJGPP.zip

Weiqi Gao <weiqigao <at> a.crl.com> 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
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