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Johannes L. Braams | 29 Aug 2001 23:54
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New release (3.4b) of the changebar package

Hi all,

I have just prepared a new release of the changebar package to mirrored onto 
CTAN.
The changes are;
- support for VTeX has been added, thanks to a contribution by Michael Vulis
- support for colored changebars has (finally) been added
- a problem with changebar and shadethm used in the same document 
  has been fixed.
- a number of minor typo's have been fixed.

Kind regards,

Johannes Braams
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Robin Fairbairns | 7 Aug 2001 11:06
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Re: CTAN submissions --- ccaption,verse packages, memoir class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and legends. Methods are provided to
> define captions for use outside floats, caption styles, and new
> floats. 
> 
> Changes in version 3.0a:
> o Catered for old versions of amsmath package doing odd things with
> \ <at> tempa etc. 

and

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typeseeting general (non-)
> fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the book and report
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Robin Fairbairns | 7 Aug 2001 15:54
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Re: CTAN upload -- new version of ruhyphen package (1.4)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-010807.tar.gz
> the new version of our ruhyphen package (collection of russian
> hyphenation patterns).
> 
> changes between the previous version (1.3) and this new version (1.4):
> 
> * Alexander Lebedev's patterns, ruhyphal.tex, are now generated using
>   patgen and his rus-ispell dictionary (previously it was derived from
>   Dimitry Vulis' patterns). This and many other improvements for
>   Alexander Lebedev's patterns made over the last years, make them the
>   highest quality patterns for russian language.
> 
> * added one more original pattern by Mikhail Grinchuk. it is the
>   smallest of all patterns for Russian language, and could be used on
>   TeX systems with limited memory; due to its small size, the number
>   of wrong hyphenated words is bigger than for other patterns.
> 
> * the pattern ruhyphvl.tex was updated with the new version (slightly
>   modified by A.Cherepanov, V.Kryukov and A.Shen).
> 
> * accompanying patterns for the cyrillic letter `yo' were regenerated
>   using the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's comprehensive word
>   list generated from his rus-ispell dictionary.
> 
> * patterns were made "stable" against re-encoding to any cyrillic
>   encoding, and also usable with non-standard "on the fly" reencoding
>   mechanisms like TCX or TCP (switched on at TeX format creation
>   phase) used in some TeX implementations (provided that these
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Robin Fairbairns | 2 Aug 2001 10:12
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Re: ctan upload framed.sty

Donald Arseneau writes:

> I have uploaded framed.sty to ctan/UK (cam).  This is a "new"
> package -- something I've had for a long time but it doesn't
> really do everything I'd like.  It is version 0.3 and should
> go in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc.  (It could go in
> "supported" when, if ever, it goes to version 1.0.)
>
> The licensing is the same as for cite.sty: not quite pd, gpl,
> or lppl:
> % framed.sty   v 0.3   29-Jul-2001
> % Copyright (C) 1992-2001 by Donald Arseneau
> % These macros may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
> % provided that this notice is left intact.
>
>
> Summary:
> Create framed or shaded regions that can break across pages.

i've installed the file as requested.  thanks for the upload.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Rainer Schoepf | 3 Aug 2001 13:40

Re: Upload of binhex.dtx

On 2 Aug 2001 David Kastrup wrote:

> I have uploaded binhex.dtx and the accompanying binhex.ins (which can
> be regenerated from binhex.dtx if the need arises) to directory
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/incoming/binhex
>
> Running tex on binhex.ins extracts binhex.tex (the code) and
> binhex.drv (the driver for typesetting the documentation using LaTeX).
>
> This implements commands to expandably convert numbers into binary,
> octal and hexadecimal, so that
> \message{\hex{-15}} will output -F
>
> License is dfsg compatible, basically free for everything except that
> you should preserve the copyright notice.
>
> Suggested placement is macros/generic/kastrup, since I might want to
> submit a few other tricks of the trade later.

Thanks for the upload, I installed binhex.ins and binhex.dtx in

  macros/generic/kastrup

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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Robin Fairbairns | 6 Aug 2001 14:16
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new version of uk tex faq on archive and web

i have just installed a new version of the uk tex faq on ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq) and on the web (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq)

i've mended a small number of bugs in the markup and translation to
html, corrected and/or extended a few answers, and added answers to
another small number of questions.

note that question numbers have (again) changed, though no old
questions have gone away this time.  users are again urged to use the
"label=" form of reference to questions, rather than the old
"question=" form: "label=" references may be found at the end of every
answer the web version of the faq returns.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer (and CTAN manager)
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Robin Fairbairns | 7 Aug 2001 11:06
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Re: CTAN submissions --- ccaption,verse packages, memoir class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded ccaption.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current contents of
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/ccaption. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     The ccaption package provides commands for `continuation
> captions', unnumbered captions, and legends. Methods are provided to
> define captions for use outside floats, caption styles, and new
> floats. 
> 
> Changes in version 3.0a:
> o Catered for old versions of amsmath package doing odd things with
> \ <at> tempa etc. 

and

>     I have uploaded memoir.tar to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir. 
> 
>     The distribution is under the LPPL.
> 
> From the README:
> 
>     Memoir is a configurable class for typeseeting general (non-)
> fiction and mathematical books. It encompasses the book and report
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Reinhard Zierke | 7 Aug 2001 12:42
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CTAN submission -- slideshow

----- Forwarded message from Patrick TJ McPhee -----
I have uploaded a file called slideshow.zip to dante.ctan.org.
The files should go in graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/slideshow
The license is Berkley-style: there is no restriction on use,
but there is a copyright and I ask that it be kept when there is
signficant quotation.

slideshow is a set of metapost macros which simplify creating a
PDF presentation using metapost and ghostscript. It is documented
by a short text file, and includes some simple examples, including
the PDF output.
----- End forwarded message -----

Thaks for the upload.  I installed it as suggested in
CTAN:/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/slideshow/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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Robin Fairbairns | 7 Aug 2001 15:54
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Re: CTAN upload -- new version of ruhyphen package (1.4)

Vladimir Volovich writes:

> i've uploaded to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/ruhyphen-010807.tar.gz
> the new version of our ruhyphen package (collection of russian
> hyphenation patterns).
> 
> changes between the previous version (1.3) and this new version (1.4):
> 
> * Alexander Lebedev's patterns, ruhyphal.tex, are now generated using
>   patgen and his rus-ispell dictionary (previously it was derived from
>   Dimitry Vulis' patterns). This and many other improvements for
>   Alexander Lebedev's patterns made over the last years, make them the
>   highest quality patterns for russian language.
> 
> * added one more original pattern by Mikhail Grinchuk. it is the
>   smallest of all patterns for Russian language, and could be used on
>   TeX systems with limited memory; due to its small size, the number
>   of wrong hyphenated words is bigger than for other patterns.
> 
> * the pattern ruhyphvl.tex was updated with the new version (slightly
>   modified by A.Cherepanov, V.Kryukov and A.Shen).
> 
> * accompanying patterns for the cyrillic letter `yo' were regenerated
>   using the latest version of Alexander Lebedev's comprehensive word
>   list generated from his rus-ispell dictionary.
> 
> * patterns were made "stable" against re-encoding to any cyrillic
>   encoding, and also usable with non-standard "on the fly" reencoding
>   mechanisms like TCX or TCP (switched on at TeX format creation
>   phase) used in some TeX implementations (provided that these
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Robin Fairbairns | 7 Aug 2001 18:25
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revtex 4 "production" (i.e., non-beta) release

ctan is now mirroring the production version of revtex 4.  changes
are:

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/revtex4-beta   has been withdrawn

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/revtex         is the new release

in parallel, the old (latex 2.09) version has been moved to

  obsolete/macros/latex209/contrib/revtex

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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