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Reinhard Zierke | 1 Mar 2003 09:07
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CTAN submission: EPM TeX Front End 4.0 (OS/2)

----- Forwarded message from Walter Schmidt -----
I have uploaded the file epmtfe.zip to the /incoming 
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, delete all files
and subdirectories from the CTAN directory

	systems/os2/epmtfe

and unpack the uploaded ZIP file to this directory then.
(Please, do not unpack the enclosed archives.)

This is version 4.0 of the "EPM TeX Front End", a module 
for the OS/2 "Enhanced Editor" EPM.  It turns the EPM 
into an integrated TeX environment, providing (La)TeXing, 
previewing and executing of auxiliary programs from the 
editor menu.  Remarkable features are:

* (La)TeX errors are highlighted in the document source;
* Postscript support (dvips conversion on-the-fly);
* optional TeXing of a marked region of a file;
* support for split source file;
* OS/2 shell and WPS interface;
* optional LaTeX syntax assist;
* additional user-definable menu items;
* works also in conjunction with VTeX/2;
* stable, reliable, and esay to use.

Two flavors of the TeX Front End are provided:

* "classic":  for use with any TeX system, 
  including emTeX and VTeX/2
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Reinhard Zierke | 6 Mar 2003 13:37
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CTAN submissions -- cmtiup and cmslup

----- Forwarded message from "Sergei V. Znamenskii" -----

   + what you've uploaded

    cmtiupsr.zip archive (27.04k) contains just the cmtiup.dtx
        file with all sources;
    cmtiup.zip archive (57.86k) contains all files packed for
        tds-compliant distribution;
    cmtiupem.zip archive (25.35k) packed for use with emTeX
        without sources and virtual fonts.
    cmtiup.txt (1.16k) contains brief plain text annotation;
    cmtiup.pdf (133.15k) contains short version of user
        documentation in PDF format;
    cmtiup.tpm (1.95k) serves the fpTeX installation routine.

   + which CTAN node you've uploaded to

        ftp.dante.de

   + where you want the files to go

        CTAN/fonts/cm/cmtiup  (replace old files, please)

   + what licensing conditions you apply to your software

        LPPL

   + a brief summary of what your upload is intended to

    The new version of "cmtiup" package contains the following
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Jim Hefferon | 6 Mar 2003 15:34
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CTAN upgrade: WinTeX 2000

A package has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org.  I should make its way to a
mirror near you quite soon.

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

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Name of contribution: WinTeX 2000
Author's name: Michael Muecke
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/wintex2000
Summary description: WinTeX 2000 is a 32bit Windows TeX editor with a modern 
  MDI-Interface and the MS Office look and feel. WinTeX 2000 offers powerful 
  editing functions in a comfortable and easy to use environment.
License type: shareware

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
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WinTeX 2000 is a Windows TeX editor with a modern MDI-Interface and the 
MS Office look and feel. WinTeX 2000 offers powerful editing functions in 
a comfortable and easy to use environment.

Key features: 

* MS Office look & feel 
* VBScript enabled application 
* Syntax highlighting 
* Auto spell automatically underlines misspelled words in your text 
* Thesaurus finds synonyms
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Jim Hefferon | 8 Mar 2003 13:11
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New CTAN material: latexcount

A new package has been installed at the tug.ctan.org node of 
CTAN and should make its way to your favorite mirror soon. 

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

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor.

Name of contribution: latexcount
Author's name: P.D. Magnus
Location on CTAN: support/misc
Summary description: Perl script generates word count of LaTeX documents
License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the contribution's author:
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The latexcount script gives a reasonably accurate count of the number of 
words in the main text of an article, the number of words in footnotes, and 
the number of words total. The list of tags that don't get counted can be 
added to as needed.
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Robin Fairbairns | 9 Mar 2003 00:33
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new sansmath on ctan

donald arseneau has submitted a new package sansmath.sty (pd licence),
and i've installed it in macros/latex/contrib/other/misc

the package defines a new math version 'sans', and a command \sansmath
that behaves somewhat like \boldmath.  detailed documentation is to be
found in the package file itself.

as always, thanks, donald.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Robin Fairbairns | 11 Mar 2003 13:15
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new release of uk tex faq (v3.5)

i've installed a new version of the uk tex faq, on ctan
(help/uk-tex-faq), on the www.tex.ac.uk/faq web page, and for
distributors on the private address they will already know.

this new version has a few more questions answered, a number of
updates and corrections of old answers, but textually there's been
little change.

the web appearance has changed slightly, but the big difference is
that there is now a "seach via google" link (which specialises the
search you request so that it only looks at the faq: Hans Nordhaug
found this facility for me).  i would welcome users' views on this
addition: the existence of the google facility obviously saves me the
trouble of writing a "proper" search mechanism (which has long been
delayed on my list of things-to-do), but if users dislike the google
arrangement, it won't continue.

as always, i welcome comments about, or suggestions or (best of all) actual
text, for the faq.  submissions should be sent to faq@...

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion
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Reinhard Zierke | 11 Mar 2003 19:26
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CTAN submission -- initials fonts

----- Forwarded message from Maurizio Loreti -----
+ what you've uploaded

  incoming/initials.tar.gz

+ which CTAN node you've uploaded to

  ftp.dante.de

+ where you want the files to go

  tex-archive/fonts/initials/

+ what licensing conditions you apply to your software

  non-commercial (for the fonts; the macros are public domain)

+ a brief summary of what your upload is intended to do

  From the README file:
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This archive contains PostScript binary files for a few "decorative
initials" (also called "dropped initials") fonts, and the service
files needed in order to use these fonts with [La]TeX.

The fonts are freely usable for non-commercial use, and are a (small)
subset of the ones designed and crafted by:

          Dieter Steffmann
          Marburger Straße 93a
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Reinhard Zierke | 11 Mar 2003 19:35
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CTAN submission -- altepakete.pdf (obsolete but often used old stuff)

----- Forwarded message from Mark Trettin -----
I have uploaded `altepakete.tar.gz' to ftp.dante.de/incoming/

Name of contribution: Das LaTeX-Sündenregister (sins of LaTeX users)

Suggested location on CTAN: info/german/altepakete/

Summary description: Obsolete commands, packages and other common
                     mistakes
License type: Free

Announcement text:
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A small list of obsoleted commands and packages that are constantly
posted in "minimal examples" to de.comp.text.tex. I further listed
common mistakes (e.g. \begin{appendix}...\end{appendix} instead of
\appendix ...). This file should be considered an add-on to the
available documentation like l2kurz and FAQs. 

This document is written in German.
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Thank you very much for your informative documentation.  I installed it as
suggested in CTAN:info/german/altepakete/

Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
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Robin Fairbairns | 12 Mar 2003 10:26
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patch of yesterday's release of uk faq

i've installed v3.5.1 of the faq on ctan and on
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq

this version mends a significant number of stupid typos that tim love
(of c.u.engineering dept) spotted and told me about yesterday
afternoon.

my apologies for the rapid re-issue.  distributors' version building
as i type.

Robin Fairbairns

UK TeX FAQ maintainer

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=maillists+askquestion
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Reinhard Zierke | 13 Mar 2003 11:19
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CTAN submission: updated font metrics for Lucida Bright and LuxiMono

Walter Schmidt asked us to update two packages:

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I have uploaded the file lucida-20030312.zip to the /incoming
directory at dante.ctan.org.  Please, unpack it to the CTAN
directory
           fonts/metrics/bh/lucida

thus replacing the current files and adding some new ones.

These are updated fonts metrics and VFs for Y&Y's commercial
LucidaBright fonts.  Recent improvements to the "fontinst"
tool and changes to the TeXBase1 encoding made it possible
to fix some long-standing deficiencies:

* all typewriter fonts have got vertically centered 
  asterisks now;

* all textcompanion fonts have got vertically centered
 \textaskeriskcented symbols now;

* the Omega symbol \textohm is made available in all
  textcompanion fonts.

See the file "readme.lucida" for further minor changes,
which affect the layout of the distribution.

I am fully aware, that these font metrics were updated only
recently.  Thus, it may seem as if an important piece of
software has become unstable as soon as I started touching
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