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Mimi Jett, TUG President | 13 Dec 2002 23:17
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TUG news and 2003 renewal

December 13, 2002

Dear TUG Member,

Happy Holidays!  Thank you for your support in 2002 and over the years.
Once again, it is time to renew your membership with the TeX Users Group.
As you know, your membership dues help support worldwide projects like
TeX Live, LaTeX3, the CTAN archives and TUGboat production.

Starting in 2003, dues will also support the TeX Development Fund.  The
development fund was created to aid the growth of TeX-related technical
projects.  TUG has budgeted $5000 USD for the first year of the fund and
hopes that other groups and individuals will contribute to the fund as
well.  Deadline for applications is February 1, 2003. If you have an
idea or project that would be eligible for inclusion on CTAN or TeX
Live, please consider applying for a grant. TUG wants to help!  For more
information about the development fund: http://tug.org/tc/devfund/

- TUG Contributions:
Perhaps you also know that for many years TUG has contributed $2000 per
year to the bursary fund, which provides financial assistance for
attending the TUG Annual Meeting to those in need.  We are very pleased
to inform you that individual TUG members additionally contributed $850,
and GUTenberg (www.gutenberg.eu.org/) contributed $1000, to the bursary
this year.  Thank-you very much!  The bursary funds were allocated to
five recipients who attended TUG2002 in Trivandrum, India, in September.
The TUG board of directors also approved an additional request for
support for conference speakers.

TUG also donated $2000 to GUST (the Polish TeX Users Group,
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Jim Hefferon | 3 Dec 2002 16:44
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New CTAN package: latex4jed

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should make its
way to a mirror near you in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@...

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: latex4jed 
Author's name: Guido Gonzato, Ph. D.
Location on CTAN: support/jed
Summary description: A much enhanced LaTeX mode for the Jed editor.
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
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This S-Lang file for the Jed editor provides a much enhanced LaTeX mode 
a la AUCTeX: menus, shortcuts, templates, syntax highlighting, document 
outline, integrated debugging, symbol completion, full integration with 
external programs, and more. It was designed with both the beginner and 
the advanced LaTeX user in mind.
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Robin Fairbairns | 5 Dec 2002 15:12
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Re: upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.tex.ac.uk

John Forkosh writes:

>  As per your README.uploads instructions...
>    + what you've uploaded
>         mimetex.zip
>         (version 1.00, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip)
>    + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
>         ftp.tex.ac.uk
>    + where you want the files to go
>         support/mimetex
>              Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in
>        support/mimetex (please  unzip mimetex.zip README  and place
>        this separate copy of README "alongside" mimetex.zip in the
>        support/mimetex directory)
>    + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>         GNU GPL
> 
>    + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>         Bug fix and new features.
>         From the original submission...
>              MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, emitting either
>         mime xbitmaps or gif images of them, which can be used in html
>         documents in the form, e.g.,
>           <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt"
>            border=0 align=absmiddle>
>         This allows you to embed math directly in html, reducing
>         the need for lots of external gif images, and making your html
>         documents more readable and easily maintained.  See
>                 http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
>         for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
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Reinhard Zierke | 6 Dec 2002 09:59
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CTAN submission -- Greek CB fonts in Type 1 format

----- Forwarded message from Apostolos Syropoulos -----
I have just uploaded the latest version of the Greek CB fonts (by Claudio
Beccari). The font bundle includes a Type 1 version for each METAFONT
driver file (i.e., 888 Type 1 font files!).
----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the upload.  I installed it in CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts/greek/cb/
replacing the previous version.

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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Jim Hefferon | 6 Dec 2002 19:31
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new CTAN package: javascript TeX editor JS-TeX.hta]

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and it should make
its way to a fovorite mirror near you in the next day or two.

Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
ftpmaint@...

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: javascript_TeXed
Author's name: Nick Yas'ko
Location on CTAN: support/javascript_TeXed
Summary description: Small MikTeX-editor for Win32 Intel platform. IE5.0+ need.
License type: nocommercial

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This is a small editor for MikTeX as an HTML application (~20kb).
It'll work on a Win32 Intel platform if you have Internet Explorer ver 5.0+.
You can run it as JS-TeX.hta from command line or start JS-TeX.hta filename.tex
If you have help for LaTeX in HTML, you can fill the HELP field in Options.
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Rainer Schoepf | 9 Dec 2002 18:21

Re: tif2eps on dante:/incoming

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> I've just uploaded to dante:/incoming
> tif2eps.zip
>
> Please unzip it in
> support/pstools/
> and remove
> support/pstools/tiff2ps/
>
> The name of package was changed to avoid conflicts with tiff2ps available
> in tiff tools (e.g. Linux distributions).
>
> tif2eps.xml goes directly to Graham. By the way, I'd suggest removing
> obsolete help/Catalogue/entries/antyktor.html|xml (we have antt.html|xml)

Thanks for the upload, I installed the new files in

   support/pstools/tif2eps

and removed the old version in

   support/pstools/tiff2ps

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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Robin Fairbairns | 10 Dec 2002 21:48
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Re: CTAN submission --- patch for the memoir class

Peter Wilson writes:

>     I have uploaded mempatch.sty to UK incoming. Please use this to
> replace the current
> macros/latex/contrib/supported/memoir/mempatch.sty. Please also
> _advertise_ the patch upload. 
> 
>     mempatch v1.0 fixes some minor infelicities in version 1.3 of
> the memoir class. 

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

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Rainer Schoepf | 11 Dec 2002 10:20

Re: CTAN upload notification: Pitkänpuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n käyttöön

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 Timo Hellgren wrote:

> Name of contribution: Pitkänpuoleinen johdanto LaTeX2e:n käyttöön
> Suggested location on CTAN: /info/lshort/finnish (replaces the previous contents)
> Summary description: The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e v.3.22 Finnish edition
> License type: Free
>
> Announcement text:
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> This is an update of the Finnish edition of Tobias Oetikers dokument
> "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e". In addition to translating
> the original I have added emphasis on things you should consider when
> making Finnish documents with LaTeX2e. This version adds all the stuff
> in version 3.22 of the original text.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the update, I replaced the files in

  info/lshort/finnish

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf
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Robin Fairbairns | 13 Dec 2002 12:40
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Re: lshort and PTLshort uploads

in the last two days, both english (info/lshort/english) and
portuguese (info/lshort/portuguese) versions of lshort have been
upgraded to v4.00 on ctan.

thanks to Tobias Oetiker and Alberto Simões for their uploads.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Rainer Schöpf | 16 Dec 2002 23:07

Re: CTAN submission -- subfloat

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Harald Harders wrote:

 > I have uploaded subfloat.tar.gz to ftp.dante.de. It contains the new
 > version of the subfloat package. Please replace the old version in
 > macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat/.
 > License is LPPL.
 > The new version avoids a problem with tabularx.
 >
 > From the README and the ChangeLog:
 >
 > subfloat.sty -- subnumbering for figures and tables
 >
 > This package enables subnumbering of different floats (figures and
 > tables) simular to the subequations-environment of the amsmath
 > package. It does not the same as the subfigure package which
 > generates subfigures within one normal figure.
 >
 > 2002-12-16 v2.13 <h.harders@...>
 >         Remove error message of incorrect usage of the counters for
 >         maximal float number due to an incompatibility to tabularx.

Thanks for the update. I installed the files as requested, in

  macros/latex/contrib/supported/subfloat

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