CTAN has a new package: math-into-latex-4

George Grätzer submitted material from his new book

 Math into LaTeX, 4th edition

to CTAN.

The submission contains:

Sample Files for the book;
License: pd
Location on CTAN: info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4

Two excerpts:  A Short Course to help you get started quickly with LaTeX, 
including detailed instructions on how to install LaTeX on a PC or a Mac; 
Location on CTAN: info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf

Math and Text Symbol Tables
Location on CTAN: info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4/SymbolTables.pdf

The Short Course is copyrighted, but can be freely distributed.

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the

  MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO

to CTAN.

Location on CTAN: /info/MiKTeX+Ghostscript+GSview+USB-drive-HOWTO.txt
Summary description: creating a MiKTeX/Ghostscript/GSview installation on USB drives for use with Windows
License type: fdl

Announcement text: 
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This is a bug-fix release.
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Thanks for the upload.

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CTAN Update: movie15

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the

  movie15

package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/movie15/
Summary description: multimedia inclusion package
License type: lppl

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This package provides an interface to embed movies, sounds and 3D objects 
into PDF documents for use with LaTeX as well as pdfLaTeX. It follows the 
PDF-1.5 and PDF-1.6 specifications for embedding multimedia content.

This is a bug-fix release:
 - Embedded sounds no longer obscure the underlying text when started.
 - Option `calculate' is now functional in Adobe Reader 8.
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This package is located at 
   http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=movie15
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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CTAN Update: animate

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update to the

  animate

package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl

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This package provides an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven 
PDF animations from sets of (vector) graphics files or from inline 
(vector) graphics, such as LaTeX-picture, PSTricks or pgf/TikZ generated 
pictures, or just from typeset text.

It supports the usual PDF making workflows, i. e.  pdfLaTeX and LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf (Ghostscript).

The resulting PDF can be viewed in current Adobe Readers on all supported platforms.

The new release is based on Optional Content Groups (OCGs), aka 
PDF-Layers, to make animations fully functional in Adobe Reader 8 as well. 
Interestingly, OCG-based animations perform better in older Reader 
versions, which might be a bug in Reader 8. Therefore, a second version of 
the package, `animate-noocg', is provided, which still uses the old, 
non-OCG-based method.

Command, \newframe*, for use within the `animateinline' environment, 
has been added. If placed after a particular frame it causes the animation 

CTAN Updated: harmony

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Dagny Wegner and Arnim Wegner submitted an update to 
the

  harmony

package.

Summary description: Typeset harmony symbols, etc., for musicology.
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/harmony
License type: lppl

This package is located at 
   http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/harmony
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=harmony
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.

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CTAN Update: animate

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Alexander Grahn submitted an update for the

  animate 

package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/animate
Summary description: creating portable PDF animations from graphics files and inline graphics
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Today's version fixes some JavaScript related bugs.
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This package is located at 
   http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=animate
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
_______________________________________________

Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf

CTAN has a new package: math-into-latex-4 [correction]

George Grätzer submitted material from his new book

  Math into LaTeX, 4th edition

to CTAN.

The submission contains:

Sample Files for the book;
License: pd
Location on CTAN: info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4

Two excerpts: A Short Course to help you get started quickly with LaTeX, 
              including detailed instructions on how to install LaTeX on a 
              PC or a Mac; 
Location on CTAN: info/Math_into_LaTeX-4/Short_Course.pdf 

The Short Course is copyrighted, but can be freely distributed.

Math and Text Symbol Tables
Location on CTAN: info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4/SymbolTables.pdf

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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/Math_into_LaTeX-4
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=math-into-latex-4
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  

CTAN has a new package: leading v0.2

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear
at your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: leading
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/leading
Summary description: Define leading with a length
License type: lppl

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Defines the \leading{<length>} command to set the
leading of the document to the length specified. In
contrast with \linespread{<ratio>}, which is less
useful in most cases.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/leading
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=leading
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 

New CTAN package: elatex 1.0

Philipp Lehman wrote:

> I've uploaded `elatex.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK 
> node. This is the initial upload of the elatex package. I suggest 
> installing it in macros/latex/contrib/elatex. Thank you very much.
> 
> ABOUT
> 
> The elatex package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared 
> primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX 
> frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as 
> some generic tools which are not strictly related to e-TeX but match 
> the profile of this package. This package will not modify any part of 
> the LaTeX kernel. Its name is not meant to imply that it patches 
> LaTeX such that the kernel makes use of e-TeX facilities by default.

i've installed the package, and it should be at the tug and dante ctan
nodes, by now.  thanks for the upload.

i've updated the catalogue: users may view that:
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/elatex.html
or go direct to the archive entry:
  http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elatex/

Robin Fairbairns

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CTAN Update: tabvar

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Daniel Flipo submitted version 1.1 of the 

  tabvar

package.

The tabvar package helps in drawing variation tables of functions.
It does not require pstricks and works with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX.

The documentation is in French, see files demo.pdf and tabvar.pdf.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/tabvar
License: lppl

Announcement text: 
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New in version 1.1:
 -- a new command \barre{} has been added to draw vertical rules 
    centered on special values of the function or it's derivatives.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/tabvar
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tabvar
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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