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CTAN Announcements | 3 Oct 2007 01:46
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CTAN has a new package: texbytopic

The package below has been put into place at tug.ctan.org and it should
soon be 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: texbytopic
Author's name: Victor Eijkhout (uploaded by Karl Berry)
Location on CTAN: /info/texbytopic/
Summary description: TeX by Topic under GFDL
License type: fdl

Announcement text: 
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Victor Eijkhout has generously released his book TeX by Topic, including 
the sources, under the GNU Free Documentation License (with no invariants).  
It is now available from CTAN, and the project page is at savannah: 
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/texbytopic.

As a long-time fan of the book, I'm very happy to see this.  Thanks 
Victor!  (And thanks for letting me be your release 'droid for CTAN :)

Karl
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CTAN Announcements | 3 Oct 2007 18:48
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CTAN package update: ijmart

The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite mirror.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ijmart, v1.1
Author's name: Boris A Veytsman
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ijmart/
Summary description: LaTeX class for the Israel Journal of Mathematics
License type: lppl

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The Israel Journal of Mathematics is published by The Hebrew
University Magnes Press.  This class provides LaTeX support for its
authors and editors.  It strives to achieve the distinct ``look and
feel'' of the journal, while having the interface similar to the one
of the amsart document class.  This will help the authors already
familiar with amsart to easily submit manuscripts for The Israel
Journal of Mathematics or to put the preprints in http://www.arxiv.org
with minimal changes in the LaTeX source.

In version 1.1 the new environments ``namedprop''  and ``namedprop*'' are added.  
They facilitate typesetting of special named propositions.
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Oct 2007 10:40
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CTAN Update: oberdiek bundleintcalc v1.1, ...

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek 
bundle.

Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/
License:LPPL

New packages:

 * bigintcalc v1.0
   This package provides expandable arithmetic operations
   with big integers that can exceed TeX's number limits.

 * bitset v1.0
   This package defines and implements the data type bit set,
   a vector of bits. The size of the vector may grow dynamically.
   Individual bits can be manipulated.

 * grfext v1.0
   This package provides macros for adding and reordering
   graphics extensions of package `graphics'.

Updates:

 * bookmark v1.2
    * pdfmark driver respects \nofiles.

 * engord v1.6
    * Short description fixed.

 * epstopdf v1.5
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Oct 2007 14:36
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CTAN package update: mimeTeX

John Forkosh wrote:

>   I've uploaded ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/mimetex.zip ,
> 
>   As per your README.uploads instructions...
>     + what you've uploaded
>          mimetex.zip
>               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
>              (The README file in support/mimetex
>               has _not_ changed; please just leave
>               the existing copy in place.)
>     + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
>          GNU GPL
>     + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
>        o several changes since the last CTAN update
>          in July, 2006:
>        o added wncyr10 cyrillic fonts, including support
>          for all tex ligatures
>        o added \reflectbox functionality
>        o negative spaces now supported
>        o 1,2,3 places comma at baseline, as usual,
>          but \frac12,3 places comma at \frac line
>          (and ditto for other similar punctuation)
>        o fixed several minor bugs reported by users, e.g.,
>          better logic to determine whether to apply + to blank
>          translation on input query strings.
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CTAN Announcements | 5 Oct 2007 20:26
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CTAN has a new package: epspdfconversion

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be 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: epspdfconversion
Author's name: Daniel Becker
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion
Summary description: package to use the epspdf-tools from within 
  (pdf)latex for eps->pdf conversion "on the fly"
License type: lppl

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This package facilitates the use of the epspdf tools (see on CTAN in 
/pub/tex/support) from within (pdf)LaTeX. EPS graphic files are 
converted "on the fly". It is similar to and based on the epstopdf 
package and allows to pass several options such as grayscale, 
prepress, pdfversion etc. to the epspdf conversion-command.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/epspdfconversion
.  More information is at
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Oct 2007 19:46
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CTAN Update: visualtex

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Alex Romanenko submitted a new version of the

  visualtex

package.

Visual-TeX is a TeX-oriented text editor which uses Neil Hodgson's 
Scintilla editing component as source code editor, and a TeX lexer by the 
package author.  The editor has several valuable TeX-specific features, 
including forward search capability from YAP.

Location on CTAN: systems/win32/visualtex
Summary description: vx 3.30 update
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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 [*] Win32 interface is optimized, some modules are rewritten; 
 [*] hardware dependent module KBDC is replaced by the inner procedure; 
 [*] some bugs are fixed 
 [*] (cascaded) folding is correcred. 
 [+] TeX macro for commands with arguments take into account the selection in document; 
 [+] new editor commands; 
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/visualtex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=visualtex
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
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CTAN Announcements | 6 Oct 2007 20:31
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CTAN package update: gnuplottex

> An upload to cam.ctan.org was in upload-20071006-135511
> 
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: gnuplottex
> Author's name: Lars Kotthoff
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/gnuplottex
> Summary description: Gnuplottex allows you to generate and include gnuplot gr
> aphs directly in LaTeX.
> License type: gpl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gnuplottex allows you to make gnuplot graphs directly in your LaTeX
> files. Gnuplot is a versatile plotting package. More information can
> be found at http://www.gnuplot.info/.
> 
> This version adds improved support for different gnuplot terminals.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository;
thanks for the upload.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gnuplottex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive//macros/latex/contrib/gnuplottex

the changes will be at the other CTAN sites "soon", at the mirrors
(mostly) within 24 hours.  the catalogue entry will be updated from the
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Oct 2007 00:32
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CTAN Update: autolatex 5.3

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Stephane Galland submitted an update to the

  autolatex 

package.

AutoLaTeX is a set of GNU Make and Perl scripts that may be used to 
compile LaTeX projects.  AutoLaTeX automates the compilation process by 
calling (pdf)latex and bibtex as they are required.  It supports pdflatex, 
latex, dvips, epstopdf and bibtex.  AutoLaTeX also provides a powerful
feature for automatic generation of the figures that are included in the 
LaTeX project: for several figure sources (xfig, dia, umbrello, png, svg, 
xmi...) AutoLaTeX is able to generate the appropriate PDF picture.  
AutoLaTeX also supports pstex format generation (from xfig and gnuplot for 
example).

The use of AutoLaTeX on the command line is similar to GNU Make.  
AutoLaTeX should be called with several targets to run.

Location on CTAN: /support/autolatex
Summary description: Update of AutoLaTeX due to major bug fixes
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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Several major bugs are fixed inside the GTK interface of AutoLaTeX.
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/support/autolatex/
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CTAN Announcements | 8 Oct 2007 21:19
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New CTAN package: etoolbox (elatex) 1.3

Philipp Lehman <plehman@...> wrote:

> I've uploaded `etoolbox.tar.gz' to the incoming directory of the UK 
> node. Note that this is an update for macros/latex/contrib/elatex. The 
> package was formerly called 'elatex' and has been renamed 
> to 'etoolbox'. Please purge all the old files, install the new ones 
> under macros/latex/contrib/etoolbox, and announce the upload as 
> usual.
> 
> ABOUT (for the catalogue)
> 
> The etoolbox 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 related to e-TeX but match the 
> profile of this package. Note that the initial versions of this 
> package were released under the name elatex.
> 
> CHANGES
> 
> * Renamed package from elatex to etoolbox
> * Renamed \newswitch to \newtoggle (name clash)
> * Renamed \provideswitch to \providetoggle (consistency)
> * Renamed \switchtrue to \toggletrue (consistency)
> * Renamed \switchfalse to \togglefalse (consistency)
> * Renamed \ifswitch to \iftoggle (consistency)
> * Renamed \notswitch to \nottoggle (consistency)
> * Added \undef
> * Added \csundef
> * Added \AtEndPreamble
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CTAN Announcements | 10 Oct 2007 23:44
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Re: dante.ctan.org upload: KOMA-Script

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 Markus Kohm submitted a new version of the

  koma-script

bundle.

The KOMA-Script bundle provides drop-in replacements for the 
article/report/book classes with emphasis on typography and versatility.  
There is also a letter class, different from all other letter classes.  
It also offers e.g. a package for calculated type areas in the way laid 
down by the typographer Jan Tschichold, a package for easily changing and 
defining of page styles, a package for getting not only the current date 
but also the name of day and a package for getting current time.  All 
these packages may be used not only with KOMA-Script classes but also with 
standard classes.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/koma-script
Summary description: KOMA-Script is a versatil LaTeX2e bundle
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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KOMA-Script 2007/09/28 v2.97c
Copyright (c) Markus Kohm , 1994-2007

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KOMA-Script is a versatile bundle of LaTeX2e document classes and
packages.  It aims to be a replacement to the standard LaTeX2e
classes.  KOMA-Script does not stop with the features known from
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